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Thursday, December 10, 2015

Review Make it Easy Cookbook and giveaway


In my kitchen I have a vast collection of cookbooks. I know nowadays you can get recipes on line but there is nothing nicer than browsing through cookbooks, looking at the glossy photos and flicking through the pages.

Make it Easy cookbook by Jane Lovett is a lovely cookbook with 100 pages. It has a selection of foolproof, stylish and delicious go ahead recipes ranging from soups and starters, fish, meat, lunches and desserts. All the recipes are simple and easy to follow so the book is suitable for an amateur or an expert cook.

Although the book does not have strictly vegetarian recipes, there are a few and most can be adapted to make them suitable for vegetarian by substituting ingredients. The book has a nice tips section at the front and also a little bit about the author. It's always nice to read something about the author as it gives a good insight as to how the author created the recipes. The book would make a lovely christmas present for someone who enjoys cooking or would like to learn. It retails at £12.99
ISBN :9781504800549


I have tried a few recipes from the book such as Spanakopita a a spinach and feta tart, Oriental salad and the sticky spiced nuts. They turned out delicious.

Score:

My score for the book: 12/15

Content -3 /5 (Purely because of not enough vegetarian recipes)
Illustrations- 5/5
Recipe Instructions- 4/5

All the views and opinions expressed in this post are my own. I would like to thank Lifestyle books for sending me this book to review.They have also been very generous and agreed to provide an additional copy for one simplyfood reader.

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107 comments:

  1. My favourite comment is my hand blender. It gets used a lot in my 1-person household, for soups, puddings, smoothies, pancake batter... all sorts!

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  2. My electric tin opener! so much quicker haha!

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  3. My kitchen is a little small for using a recipe book whilst prepping food, so I have my pinterest board full of ideas for my meals, although I have taken photographs of recipes in books before and I enjoy looking through them for inspiration :)

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  4. I have a slow cooker one which is pretty good!

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  5. I have many but at the mo I really love The Hairy Bikers Best-loved Recipes!

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  6. My favourite cookbook is Marguerite Patten's Everyday Cook Book. It has the best recipes for all the basics but some of the 60s dishes in it leave me helpless with laughter because they look so garish and inedible!

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  7. My favourite cookbook is Simply Nigella: Feel Good Food

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  8. My favourite cook book is Mary Berry baking bible

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  9. I love my 'Mean Beans' student vegetarian cookbook that my friend bought me when I went to uni 20 years ago - cheap and simple food never dates!

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  10. prue leith's cookery bible, has every recipe you'd ever need

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  11. The hummingbird bakery cook books

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  12. Baking made easy - Lorraine Pascale

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  13. Mary Berry's baking book. My little boy goes and fetches it when it's cake making time.

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  14. Favourite cook book is any by Mary Berry - her baking bible is fab!

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  15. My Bero cook book its ancient but reliable

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  16. Save with Jamie

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  17. James Martin - Sweet.

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  18. I have 15 minute book by Jamie Oliver xx

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  19. veg everyday hugh fearnley whittingstall

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  20. I love Jamie Oliver's 30 Minute Meals

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  21. I have a thai cookbook that I love, I also love my slimming world sauce book that I use alot

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  22. Jamie Oliver 30 minute meals- its great for school/work nights

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  23. I love Anna Jones' books, but my favourite has to be Yotam Ottolengh's Plenty - delicious recipes I return to again and again

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  24. I have many cookbooks that I love, despite the internet I still prefer proper books! I always refer to Mary Berry for cakes, have a few of hers now.

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  25. The Kitchen Diaries by Nigel Slater. I practically lick the pages!

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  26. My current favourite cookbook is Tom's Table by Tom Kerridge

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  27. The Complete AGA Cookbook by Mary Berry & Lucy Young

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  28. Ashamed to say I don't actually have any at the moment. So, I'd love to win this.

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  29. I love Jamie Olivers everyday superfood

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  30. Cook Now, Eat Later By Mary Berry

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  31. I love Jamie Olivers 30 minute recipes

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  32. The book on simple cooking in a slow cooker i got in america

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  33. The Jamie Oliver 30 minute recipes book is great!

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  34. Delia Smith cooking course is my go-to cookbook

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  35. My Kenwood Chef cook book is great, it has a fantastic recipe in it for Lemon and Lime pie.

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  36. Jamie Oliver's :)

    ~ Anthony G

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  37. Jamie Oliver 30 minute recipe book is my favourite.

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  38. The one I always end up going back to is the Harcombe Diet cookbook by Andy & Zoe Harcombe - never had a bad recipe from that book.

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  39. My favourite is Hairy Bikers homemade recipes :)

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  40. My favourite cook book is the Dairy Diary cook book that I've had for years. Basic and simple - a bit like me!

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  41. Mary Berry Baking Bible. I use it all the time. I should really be a bit more adventurous though

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  42. I love The Dairy Book of Home Cookery :)

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  43. i don't actually have a favourite go to recipe book

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  44. Mary Berry Baking Bible, use it all the time

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  45. My favourite cookbook is the one inside my head :)

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  46. Searching google and finding whatever recipe I want from there at the moment!

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  47. Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food

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  48. Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food

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  49. The Hairy Bikers slimming book, it's really good.

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  50. The Be-ro cookbook. I have 3 generations of it. My Grandma's,my Mum's and mine 3:)

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  51. Any of the Jamie Oliver cookbooks. His recipes always work well.

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  52. I am loving the new Jamie Oliver superfoods book! So many great new recipes!

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  53. My favourite isn't a celebrity or one that can be bought actually. It's my late nans notebook with all her recipes wrote down

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  54. Good Housekeeping cookbook, its got everything you need

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  55. My halowave oven, for a busy mum like me its ideal to put everything in from joints to veggies even puddings

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  56. Isle of bute cookery book...not sure if its still in publication...I lived in the isle of bute as a child! And it was published when I was young and passed on to me from my mum!

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  57. I love my Mary Berry's Complete Cook book. I have used it so much that it's without it's cover!

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  58. My favourite recipe book has to James Martin's "Easy every Day"

    (Real name: Christine Lockley)

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  59. I love Mary Berry's Complete Cookbook

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  60. I like jamie oliver 30 minute meals

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  61. I have two well used cook books, Jamie's Dinners and Keeping it Simple by Gary Rhodes!

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  62. I love the photos in this book, they make the food look so appealing and draw you into wanting to cook them.

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