Daddy Clay mentioned on the Live Show sometime back about cookbooks with simple recipes. Here are a few of my favorites. Note that the recipes may be simple, but they are not 30 minute Rachel Ray hackfests...

River Cottage Baby and Toddler - This book is only available in the UK, but well worth the expense. The premise is simple, there should be no sharp difference between what kids and adults eat, except when applying seasoning and spices. Even the infant purees have suggestions for adult consumption. Like all River Cottage books, the first third of the book is an essay/thesis on feeding baby's and toddlers. The rest is recipes for infant purees and seasonally appropriate dishes for kids eating solids. The recipes are designed to feed two adults and two children with modifications for younger and older kids.

River Cottage Everyday - More stuff from the fine folks at River Cottage. Nothing too fancy here, just a good collection of high quality, easy to make recipes.

Mexican Everyday by Rick Bayless - One of my favorites. It covers a variety of classic and modern Mexican dishes. Most, if not all of the recipes have variations, vegetarian options, and enhancements.

Simple Fresh Southern by the Lee Brothers - A book of southern cooking that emphasizes fresh ingredients.

The Family Meal by Ferran Adria - For the uninitiated, Ferran Adria is the head of El Bulli, literally, the finest restaurant in the world which is now becoming a culinary think tank/research center. The book contains recipes developed by his staff for their staff meals.

Upcoming books to consider:
Heston Blumenthal at Home - Chef Heston Blumenthal run's The Fat Duck, the finest restaurant in the UK and master of "Molecular Gastronomy". Modernist cooking is the preferred term, actually. He is applying those techniques to home cooking in this book. It will be out just before Thanksgiving in the US, but it is available right now from Amazon.co.uk for $.25 more than the US price, but with metric measurements.

Home Cooking with Jean-Georges: My Favorite Simple Recipes - Jean-Georges Vongerichten is a master French Chef. I honestly don't know how this can go wrong.

Nature: Simple, Healthy, and Good by Alain Ducasse. Just look him up. I may praise these other chefs, but they are well trained monkeys compared to this guy. I know nothing about this book except that I will order it when it comes out in March 2012.

Wonderful suggestions. Any other guys have suggestions of cookbooks that are your "go to?"

Jamie at Home was my go to until a cleaner stole it when we were moving along with some key brewing books. We don't even know which cleaners because the realtor "managed" the process and blamed us. But this book deals with ingredients by season. Very nice for local, seasonal cooking. I think all the recipes are on his web site, but the photos in the book are incredible.

Alton Brown's Feasting on Asphalt The River Run has been enlightening. The series skipped over a lot of things he put in his journal. Pretyt neat and a cool read, too.

I really like Bob Blumer's Surreal Gourmet books, too. He plays with concepts quite a bit.

Those are great. Aside from my two regional favorites "The New Mexico Green Chili" and "Charleston Receipts" I really like the book "Food Everyday" from Martha Stewart. She also puts out a monthly publications that has very good and accessible dinners. "The New Basic CookBook" from Rosso & Lukins is also very good and thorough with enough details to satisfy a hard core foodie!

The cookbook from my all time favorite road house Dinosaur Bar-b-que is a great grilling cookbook. The brined stuffed porkchops are killer! Of course, all the recipes call for their own sauces that you can purchase online (or they provide recipes for those too)! I'm lucky. My in-laws are in that area and bring me a fresh supply of sauces ever time they visit.