Ich helf dir kochen: das erfolgreiche Universalkochbuch mit großem Backteil

This is definitely the book I go to when I'm looking for a side dish, need to look up something or am just looking for a down-to-earth recipe. It leans heavily towards German cuisine, though not necessarily to the cliché dishes, and is probably one of the standard basic cookbooks in Germany.

It’s a direct rival to "German Cooking Today: The Original”, and in my opinion vastly superior to it “ that is to say, I bought the latter years earlier, but never learnt to cook properly, until "Ich helf Dir kochen” came along. But that may just be me.