I used to enjoy looking at cookbooks with my mother and my grandmother.

I don’t know if this one is a favorite, but I enjoy it very much and the recipes are not too hard to follow:

http://www.molliekatzen.com/books_moosewood_cookbook.php

Mollie Katzen, Moosewood Cookbook. If you look at the site, the graphics may be familiar to you, if you’re a cookbook fan or you’re into books.

Also popular with a lot of people are Barefoot Contess (Ina Garten).