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Mediterranean Every Day

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This book will make you want to take a trip to the Mediterranean immediately! The beautiful photography that accompanies the recipes will make them ASAP! Perfect for a gift!

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Delicious food. Gorgeous pictures. Helpful tips. What's not to love?
The author makes amazing food seem very approachable, and I want to cook/eat everything in here. Nothing fussy - just solid recipes that are a cohesive collection but still display variety.

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This book is gorgeous and the photos are beautiful! Most of the recipes have photos so it's a plus. The book is clear, organized and easy to follow. The recipes look fancy and I wouldn't make them in a everyday basis, they look like recipes for gathering. I received a free digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review

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This is one of the friendliest cookbooks I have ever had the pleasure to read. This is a guide to recipes from the Mediterranean and the pictures enclosed were absolutely gorgeous! The author suggests “ Eating to feel your best” not to diet, which makes sense because that should be a goal everyone has.

What did I like? I love certain kinds of Mediterranean foods...not all kinds but this cookbook contained enough pleasant stories and a friendly enough vibe that it just belongs on your shelf. Eating to feel your best made me feel a certain inspiration since I know I’ve eaten certain things knowing they don’t always agree with me. From the smoked hummus to the salmon Greek salad...I’m hooked.

Would I buy or recommend? I would love a copy of this cookbook... just the first few recipes sold it to me. I’m always looking for a great hummus recipe, or pesto. Just mouth watering! No calorie information included with recipes, so that was the only thing I felt was missing. Still beautiful pictures and some great tips and tricks.

I received a copy to read and offer an opinion. I loved it! Five stars!

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This was a great cookbook with lots of tasty and healthy options. I was a little disappointed that there weren't more recipes but that is just me wanted a ton of options. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for tasty meals that are are still good for you.

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Mediterranean Every Day is a beautiful, classic cookbook. You'll find all of the usual Mediterranean staples within and a few special extras like fennel and parmesan "crostini" which looks delicious or "8 fancy ways to top panna cotta" - would it be Mediterranean if one of the options wasn't olive oil? On the whole, I found the book a little too weighted with grain based dishes and a little too light on protein. This is definitely a book for your risotto and pasta loving friend. The photos are lovely. It would make a great gift for someone looking for an introduction to Mediterranean cuisine.

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I’ve recently started trying to live the Mediterranean lifestyle so was excited to try this new cookbook by Sheela Prakash. She does a great job explaining the foods that are predominant in Mediterranean cuisine and how it’s very simple to follow. The recipes are sectioned by category so you can easily find what you are interested in making. I really like how there are pictures for all the recipes. Most of the ingredients are readily available and the recipes are fairly easy to follow. The recipes I’ve made so far have been great.
I would definitely check this one out if you are looking for some new recipes that are easy and follow the Mediterranean lifestyle.

Thank you to NetGalley for the chance to experience this great cookbook

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I've been embracing a more Mediterranean way of eating lately, so I've been on the lookout for good recipes/cookbooks that I can use. This cookbook was beautiful. It had the most wonderful pictures. And the recipes were easy to make and delicious!

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I confess I didn't spend very long on this. It was very hard ti read on my 10" Kindle. And when, with much effort, I managed to read through the recipe indexes, there was actually nothing I felt like cooking (although I cook and eat a lot of mediterranean food).
Maybe it makes a good coffee table book.

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Simple nice recipes, lovely colourful photos. Everything I tried turned out and had lots of flavour.

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I was really disappointed I couldn’t read this, the formatting or something was off, so I could only see a couple of the images.

This is my only reason for giving it one star.

Thank you NetGalley for my complimentary copy in return for my honest review.

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I received an ARC of this book thanks to NetGalley and publisher Quarto Publishing Group – Harvard Common Press in exchange for an honest review.

This is a great recipe book with a lot of interesting things to make. It cuts down on the faff whilst still maintaining a sense of charm and warmth from the author. It starts off by explaining what a Mediterranean diet means followed by some simple basics to make for various recipes (flour, sauces etc). Recipes themselves are split into several sections: snacks, soups/salads, grains, pasta, larger dishes and desserts. My favourite sections were probably the pasta and larger dishes as they seemed both the most straightforward to make and also the tastiest-looking.

In terms of the recipes themselves, there's a good mix here. At a first glance a lot of the dishes look fancy but when you read the ingredients, they are mostly simple to make. They included a lot of flavours and things I wouldn't normally cook which is exactly what I was looking for, without the downside of being hard to try to make. There were a few exceptions but for the most part, this makes the recipes very accessible. My favourite recipe was for a base risotto with four seasonal variations to then make depending on the time of year. This was a great idea as it felt like the author put in extra effort to think about what would be in season and easy to buy, and I wish this had been done for other recipes. I appreciate it doesn't always work though.

Overall, this is a well put-together recipe book with a lot of neat things to try. It's easy to follow and it is clear a lot of thought has been put into how it has been constructed and the content of the recipes. It looks far fancier than it is and I recommend giving it a read if, like me, you're wanting to expand what you cook without breaking the bank.

Overall Rating: 4/5 stars

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I read this ARC for an honest review
All thoughts and opinions are mine

This is a great book
Loved the recipes and the way they are set out - Photography is lovely and bright

I would certainly consider buying this once out and could see myself cooking the dishes

I would have given this 5 stars but have marked it down as I had huge difficulties downloading and had to look at it on my phone rather than laptop which would have been a much better experience. This seems to happen a lot with cookbooks but I would rather have them in mobi format so that I could look at either on my kindle or kindle app on my laptop - It does spoil the whole experience - rant over !!

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