Customer Reviews
Brilliant Every Day Food - By: A. JONES, 18 Feb 2008 
This book says everything in it's title ""Every Day" .. If you're looking for good, honest, tasty family food that can be eaten at any time of year with easy to follow recipes that don't take too long to prepare, or cook, then this is the book for you. We can't rate it - or another of Bill's books, Simply Bill - highly enough. In fact, we've just bought two more, & after a hard day at work we're just about to cook his "Fragrant Chicken & Spinach Curry". Delicious!!
Good Day - By: DKRG1, 30 Jan 2008 Great book & intresting receipes, purchased the book after watch most recent series on television & after reading other feedback. must by
I love Bill, but this isn't his best - By: Julia Flyte, 13 Jan 2008 
Bill Granger's recipes are very simple to follow & often produce divine results. He has a knack for combining fresh flavours for stunning results. My favourite of his recipe books is "Sydney Food" - so often I buy recipe books & only ever cook a handful of the recipes (if that!) but I've probably made & enjoyed about a third of that book. Unfortunately "Everyday" has not become a staple for me.
For starters, the concept seems forced. Most of Bill's other books are broken into dayparts - breakfast ideas, morning tea, lunch etc. "Everyday" is divided by day of the week. This probably seemed like a great idea when it was first proposed. For example, "Sunday" includes big breakfasts, sunday roasts & soup suppers. Monday kicks off with energizing breakfasts & friends come for dinner on Thursdays. However alll too quickly it becomes a matter of "where can we put glam salads?" & "easy weekday dinners?". If you're looking for ideas for dinner, they can be anywhere. Thankfully the index is well laid out, because that's what I end up browsing through for ideas.
The recipes that we have cooked have been fine - delicious even - but they feel like variations on recipes that I have seen from Bill before. There are a few standouts that we've loved & will cook again: the fragrant chicken & spinach curry is great, stir fried chicken with peanuts & cucumber was also good & the flavours in the haloumi open sandwich are superb. But others disappointed: his caramel salmon recipe is okay but nowhere near as divinely delicious as the one written by Jill Dupleix in "Simple Food". Berry hotcakes are okay, but a poor second to the ricotta hotcakes with honeycomb butter from "Sydney Food".
What I do reallly like about this book is the suggestions that Bill makes for entertaining, grouping several recipes together under a theme, such as a summer dinner party or a chinese dinner party.
One comment: Bill's children are far more adventurous eaters than mine - & probably than the average child. There was little in the kids' meals section that worked for my family, only the baked tomato & mozzarella pasta (which was fine, but very bland & expensive to make, for what it is).
Easy to do and easy to eat! - By: H. Coates, 29 Nov 2007 As always with a cookery book I've marked out alll the receipes I might make & I can say for the first time ever I've cooked more than half of them. Bill uses such simple ingredients & easy methods its fun to cook the receipes. For someone who doesn't eat fish there are actuallly some reallly nice receipes & I'm learning to enjoy foods I wouldn't normallly try.
The breakfast bars are the best for a morning treat.
Excellent every day food! - By: Winnie, 15 Jul 2007 This book is excellent for providing foods which go together well, which your average person may have in the cupboard & can get together quickly & speedily after a long day at work, even if you have young children, & for those that don't!! They say that the average person only cooks 2 recipes out of each cook book they buy, i've had this for about 2 weeks & already done that!! - & there's plenty more to go at! Refreshing recipes that are not for the cookery snob, but for your every day person. Fantastic!!
