Everyday Italian: 125 Simple and Delicious Recipes

Simple and Delicious!

This cookbook has become a go-to staple in my busy household. We have tried about 75% of the recipes Giada presents and have found them all to be absolutely fantastic! The ingredients are simple and mostly fresh herbs and vegetables which really bring an amazing experience to our table. In addition the recipes are simple, no painstaking steps that intimidate novice cooks. My husband, who's not a big cook, can even follow the recipes with success! It makes him feel great and also takes the pressure off of me to always be the one to cook. Overall, I would recommend this book to anyone who's looking for a fresh new way to make some classic Italian fare.

4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

Excellent Everyday Fare

Giada has hit the nail right on the head with this collection of recipes, most of which call for ingredients you probably already have in the pantry (or can easily find in your local supermarket). The techniques are simple, the dishes very straightforward--this really is the food Italians enjoy cooking and eating every day. Grazia, Giada!

4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

Giada's cookbooks

Once I picked up this cook book I have used it over and over and over. I'm Italian and her recepies have tought me so much about Italian food. She is a awesome chef. I hope to keep seeing books from her. Oh and one more thing my 3 year old son just loves to watch her. And if I ever become pregnant with a girl, she would be named after Giada!

3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

Fun and easy to use.

I love Giada's recipes. They are easy to follow and the ingredients are simple to find.

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Giada De Laurentiis

I absolutely love giada. She has helped me start cooking and now I can't stop. Her food is tasty and easy to make. I recommend this for starter cooks.

1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

A must for every kitchen

Cooking with Giada in her"Everyday Italian" cookbook is a must-have! The recipes are delicious and her instructions are excellent and comprehensive. They have inspired my husband to cook and we are enjoying the results. Nicely illustrated.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Great Recipes!

I gave this as a gift for my daughter who watches the TV show, also. She loves it and finds it very easy to follow. Delicious results!!

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Great

I love this cookbook. The recipes are easy to follow and not hard to understand like some of the chef's cookbooks I've used. I have made the reciped of Farfalle with turkey sausage, peas and mushrooms numerous times and there is never any left. I use just regular italian sausage and it is yummy.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

ADD YOUR OWN

I LOVE THE WAY SHE PREPARES MEALS HOWEVER SOMETIME U HAVE TO ADD A LITTLE SEASONING I GUESS EBCAUSE WE ALL HAVE DIFFERENT TASTE PALLETS HOWEVER ALL THE MEALS COME OUT WONDERFUL YUO JUST HAVE TO SEASON TO YOUR TASTE

1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Wonderful- Highly Recommended

Wonderful book easy to follow, delicious recipes. Family loves it.

Now THAT's Italian

Giada simplifies some of the most complicated Italian dishes while defining terms/definition of each. Lots of beautiful photography for each dish! Very good cookbook.

Great if you only want traditional Italian

I love Giada de Laurentiis. She is a model chef, mother and wife and has the cutest style and her show "Everyday Italian."

This cookbook is wonderful if you want to cook tradition Italian dishes. I love the tortellini in chicken broth.

My one complaint in this book is that she doesn't bring anything contemporary into these dishes. I love anything traditional, but I wanted her cookbook to see a new twist on some of these everyday italian meals.

I am very excited to try her desserts!!

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

A reviewer

Wow! This cookbook is the best! It has well organized index and great recipes.

Loved it!!

I love, love, love this book!! Giada rocks!!

More food photos and better readability would help

I bought the cookbook for myself after seeing Giada on tv. After looking at it and browsing the recipes I told my son and daughter-in-law I would send the book to them because the recipes are hard to read. Many are printed in color on color backgrounds. Then I tried one recipe and will now buy a second copy for myself. For the next printing they should make the recipes more readable: dark print on white paper please and more photos of the actual foods and a few less of Giada. She's beautiful but enough is enough. All in all it is a great cookbook and I'll have to put up with the difficult type in order to enjoy the food.

It all works!

My husband and I frequently cook out of this cookbook as we learned that everything tastes great. Most recipes are simple to prepare and use the same ingredients so it is easy to keep my kitchen stocked with things we'll most likely use 'shallots, garlic, canned tomatoes, etc.'

Easy & Tasty Marinara

I enjoy Giada's show and was relieved to find that her marinara sauce recipe was included in the book. I'm a beginner in the kitchen, but the first time I tried this particular recipe, everyone who tasted it said it was the best they'd ever had....Thank you, Giada! Also--I agree with the other readers who wish that more food photos were included--I find it helpful to see what the recipe should look like at the end--plus nice photographs of food enhance any cookbook collection. I may be a beginner as a cook, but I'm an experienced baker--she has wonderful dessert recipes on her show, but few were included in the book.

Everything Italian.

I don't know a lot about cooking and even less about Italian cooking and found this book a joy. Based on the Food Network's show by the same name, this cook book is a veritable cornucopia of Italian recipes that you can cook in an instant for just about anybody from the kids to your friends. Why buy this book? Who doesn't have a favorite Italian dish and by the time you try some of these recipes, you'll probably have some more!

FAST, EASY AND SIMPLE - NOT TO MENTION GREAT TASTING

Before this cookbook came out I had printed out most of Giada's recipes from food network. So I was really excited when this cookbook came out and she doesn't disappoint you. I love this cookbook! The recipe titles might scare you, but they really are easy and simple to make and they all taste great! Sorry Emeril, Giada's my favorite now!

Thanks, Giada!

I will be forever grateful to Giada for inspiring my husband to cook. After seeing her on the Today show, we picked up Everyday Italian. He has made several recipes and all have been great. Our favorite by far is Giada's marinara. Excellent! And, by the way, he happens to like the pictures (I wonder why...). If they get him to open the book, that's fine with me : )