Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com:
If you are a fan of Everyday Food magazine (and you should be), you will be wowed by Great Food Fast, a gorgeous full-color cookbook filled to bursting with recipes for fresh, flavorful food that is easy to prepare. Organized by season, Great Food Fast features simple recipes for year-round cooking, including no-cook pasta sauces, main-course soups, one-dish meals, and more. –Daphne Durham

Book Description:
No matter how busy you are, at the end of the day you want fresh, flavorful meals that are easy to prepare. And you want lots of choices and variations—recipes that call for your favorite foods and take advantage of excellent (and readily available) ingredients. In the first book from the award-winning magazine Everyday Food, you’ll find all of that: 250 simple recipes for delicious meals that are quick enough to make any day of the week.

Because a change in weather affects how we cook as much as what we cook, the recipes in Everyday Food are arranged by season. For spring, you’ll find speedy preparations for main-course salads, chicken, and poached salmon that minimize time spent at the stove; summer features quick techniques for grilling the very best burgers and kabobs as well as no-cook pasta sauces; for fall, there are braised meats and hearty main-course soups; and winter provides new takes on rich one-dish meals, roasts and stews, and hearty baked pastas. Finally, a chapter on basics explains how to make year-round staples such as foolproof roast chicken, risotto, couscous, and chocolate sauce.

Designed in a contemporary and easy-to-read format, Everyday Food boasts lush, full-color photography and plenty of suggestions for substitutions and variations. With Everyday Food, even the busiest on-the-go cook can look forward to meals that bring freshness, nutrition, and a range of flavors to dinner all week long.

Customer Reviews

Martha Delivers by Amy F.
I have had this book for a while now, and every time I am in a bind and need to whip up something fast that I KNOW will taste great, I reach for this. These recipes are not for food snobs, they use everyday ingredients and are generally not too fancy. But I appreciate recipes sometimes that aren’t too fussy. I LOVE the beautiful pictures that accompany every recipe. These recipes are easy to modify to be lower in fat, adjusted to suit your tastes, etc.

And my favorite recipes are… Favorite Turkey Burgers, Chicken Parmigiana, Cobb Salads, Molten Chocolate Cakes (super easy and great for last minute guests, impressive!), and various salad dressings. There are sooo many more that I am planning on making though. Hmmm… maybe tonight! This book can make a beginner look good and a seasoned cook can get new ideas. The recipes for sides are fabulous also. Great How-to and basic recipes in the back.

This book prompted me to subscribe to the magazine and get my sister the gift subscription. She loves the mag so I am planning on buying this for her and also my cousin who is getting married soon.

lovely pictures, but not ‘fast’ by Make it Funny
I like many of the dishes. The photos are wonderful, very inspiring.

My petpeeve is that it says ‘fast’ in the title, but some of the dishes take 45 minutes to produce. 45 minutes is not fast when you come home from work and need to throw something together! Also, this book is organized by the 4 seasons, which is creative. But, I personally like the traditional categorization better, having all the meat dishes in one section, and so on…

Excellent Reference by flakyknitter
We will be using this book for dinners often. I recognize a few recipes from the magazine - but most were new to me. They are all explained well, they each have photos and they do not appear to be too complicated to make.

Great cookbook! by MES
Every recipe I have tried from this cookbook I would make again! The recipes are quick, easy, and use ordinary ingredients that create delicious meals. I love that there is a photograph for every recipe, nutritional information for every recipe, and even some basic “how-to” cooking tips. I shared some of the recipes I tried with friends - they enjoyed them so much they bought the book for themselves and have loved everything they have tried. It’s a great cookbook for new cooks or gourmet cooks!

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