Check out Nigella Lawson's blog for sure!

I love Nigel Slater.

http://www.nigelslater.com

http://www.nigelslater.com/books.asp

And Yotam Ottolenghi.

http://www.ottolenghi.co.uk/

http://webstore.ottolenghi.co.uk/collections/books

Nigella Lawson, Jamie Oliver, Yotam Ottolenghi, and Sophie Dahl all have recipes online.

Borough Market also has a great recipe section: http://boroughmarket.org.uk/recipes

I like Classic Artisan Baking by Julian Day! Bonus - beautiful photography.

My British sister-in-law got me The Hummingbird Bakery cookbook a while ago. It's got a couple of great go-to recipes in it.

We all think of Gordon Ramsay as that guy who rips people apart on this reality show, but his book, Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Cookery Course, is worth the price just for the baking recipes. Also love Jamie Oliver. Check out his site at http://www.jamieoliver.com/. I like his simple, earthy meals.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. I love Nigel & Yotam but Hugh has my heart!!

Lorraine Pascale. Practical and yummy recipes. She has a very calm, natural style of explaining the recipes.

Ottolenghi. Such amazing ways with vegetables. I cook from his books several times per week.

Eat like a girl: http://eatlikeagirl.com/
Recipe Rifle, for the sweariness: http://reciperifle.blogspot.co.uk/
The Skint Foodie: http://www.theskintfoodie.com/index.html

I love the river cottage handbooks on preserves (by Pam Corbin) and bread (by Daniel Stevens). Also the Veg Patch handbook from river cottage has nice recipes in the back.

Definitely Ottolenghi, Jamie. Oliver, Nigel Slater as well. They all have lots of recipes online too.

Another British favorite is Delia Smith, and also anything by Mary Berry. The public library can be a good place to find these.

BBC Good Food has a lot of recipes online and you can download their monthly mag on the iPad. Otherwise, I'm a fan of Jamie Oliver and Nigella Lawson. I have all the Yottam Ottolenghi books but I don't know if I really consider his recipes British food in the traditional sense.

Serious Eats [seriouseats.com] has been running an occasional series on British cooking. it's a US-based site and the ingredients are all in 'American' which, in addition to the recipes themselves, could give you an idea how to convert some of the items that have caused confusion.

also, I second niche's suggestion re the bbc's recipes. I use the site all the time and generally find them easy to convert to US ingredients, measurements, etc.

The guardian has a very good food section, they "discovered" Ottolenghi, but also have other contributers.

Nigel Slater. Anyone who can write a recipe and make it read like a story is awesome. As well as writing a recipe that includes a line such as, "let bubble merrily on the stove for 45 minutes." Ahhhhhhh.

All of the River Cottage Books. I wish I could get the show here. I love Hugh.

And Fergus Henderson.

Nigella Lawson and Nigel Slater are two of my favourites. I also often find inspiration from BBC Food website (www.bbc.co.uk/food).

As a non-cook for 50 years, I started with Delia Smith. Very quickly she took me to the ranks of Jamie, Nigella, Gordon and others. I strongly suggest you at least begin with Delia's Egg masterpiece.

Love Ben and all the Sorted chaps...
http://sortedfood.com/

Have all their books too.

Edd Kimber: http://theboywhobakes.co.uk/

I love Nigel Slater. Also, since you are in the UK, you can now enjoy the great wealth of information from Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall's River Cottage. That was one of my favorite discoveries once we moved here (1.5 years ago) and I wish all of my American friends back home could watch!

I'm an ex-pat as well! Welcome to the rainy side of the pond.

Like others have said, Nigel Slater, Hugh Fernley Whittenstall... I would recommend the Hairy Biker's cookbooks as well, though. It's very down-to-earth British comfort food. Jamie Oliver is good, but he's not Italian and needs to figure that out.

You'll start to notice things aren't quite as different as they seem. Plain flour is exactly what it says - plain flour. Self-rising flour is what it says as well - it already has rising agents mixed in (baking powder/soda). Bread flour (or strong flour) doesn't have rising agents and is milled a little finer for smoother bread dough, it also has a higher protein level. Tipo 00 flour is even more finely milled for making pasta (and really good for pizza dough as well.)

Paul Hollywood's 'How to Bake' is a good book - we only got it for Christmas so I haven't tried everything in it, but it does look good.

Richard Bertinet's 'Dough' is excellent as well.

Molasses is called black treacle. I almost cried with excitement when I figured this one out.

Waitrose is a good place for American-ish things (and everything else). They do an imported maple syrup that's decent - Canadian, but still decent. They also have cornflour. Some ethnic markets will have cornflour as well.

American sweet shops seem to be a trend lately over here. In Manchester city centre alone there are 3 or 4. They're a little expensive, but good if you're missing home and just want an Uncle Henry bar or some pop-tarts. They have root beer too (which my British husband thinks is the best thing to ever come out of America... ever.)

Hope you get settled in okay. The hardest part for me was switching to the metric system while cooking... it starts to make sense after a while though. (I still use the good ol' Imperial system when I bake cakes and cookies though.)

Good luck!

Seconds on the Guardian - their food and drink section is terrific - especially so Felicity Cloake's writing. If you're feeling homesick for the mother country, then the link below should help... http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2013/jan/10/how-cook-perfect-steak-ale-pie

If you want to see British cooking from a professional kitchen. I think all are available on Amazon.

Marco Pierre White (the guy that made Gordon Ramsay cry): Great British Feast
Gordon Ramsay: 3 star chef
Gary Rhodes: New British Classics
Mark Hix: Pretty much everything, especially Oyster and Chop House
David Everitt-Matthias: Essence
Heston Blumenthal: Take your pick, all great eccentric books

Happy reading,

Ross

I don't understand why The River Cottage television series never made it here to the US (or Nigel Slater also, which is esp. strange because his books are very popular here). We have Jamie (love) and Nigella (hate and cannot watch) but for the others I have to turn to YouTube, chopped up and varying quality.