Customer Reviews

Everyday Food

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I am a good cook, when I feel like it. most of the time I pick up a cookbook or a magazine, I would like to try things but would have to go to the grocery store or buy a new pan, etc. Picked up my first "everyday food" from the checkout line. I liked that it was in a smaller digest size and the pictures looked appealing. I didn't expect to really be cooking from it right away. figured I could save some recipes for a holiday or a free weekend. I took it to bed with me that night and scanned it from cover to cover.

I have made 5 recipes from this first issue. and 2 of them I have made more than once. they were all simple to prepare, had ingredients I already had in my kitchen and didn't require massive amounts of prep work. the recipes were easy to follow, and turned out so delicious that I couldn't get over myself for making them. Most of them used one pan, one bowl one knife and less than 10 ingredients. my copy is already dog-eared and I have marked several other recipes I am going to try. delicious food that turned out looking remarkably like the photography (which is very nice)

here's the clincher. EVERY recipe has the nutritional breakdown for calories, fat, protein, carbohydrates and fiber. so no matter what sort of diet you are on, or even if you are not, you have the information.

I will be subscribing. it is a little on the expensive side for a cooking magazine. but I have already taken more from it than I paid for the news-stand price so I feel it is worth the money. I will probably base my thanksgiving and christmas menus off of this magazine, at least til I get the next issue.

This magazine has really blown me away. I wish there was some way to measure the amount of time it has saved me in the kitchen! I bought it at first because of the master shopping list in the front which allows me to stock up my pantry and freezer at the start of each month and then make smaller trips for each weeks' worth of food.

I like the Have You Tried? feature which helps me introduce new foods to my husband and toddlers. I really like how the recipes are designed to use the same ingredient several times... I'm not left with 3/4 cup of some odd condiment which will sit in my fridge for a year and then get thrown out.

I absolutely love the meal index; I check off each recipe as I make it which allows me to glance at the overall picture of our diet and see if I have given my family enough variety of different meats and vegetarian entrees. There are side dishes, after school snacks, breakfast ideas, a microwave recipe, a freezer recipe... they really have taken the time to cover all bases. In fact, in just a few short months it has gotten to the point where this magazine is all I cook from. My cookbooks are gathering dust :-) It has simplified my life to such an extent that when my mother called to see if I would bring a dessert to a family party, I grabbed the magazine and read her the list of 6 recipes. We picked one that would be easy to make and transport. It was a lot easier than brainstorming what to choose out of the hundreds of desserts one could possibly make.

I like that the recipe is all on one page - I attach it to my range hood with a magnetic clip and everything is easy to read but out of the way, not getting food spilled on it. I also love the size which fits perfectly in my handbag and in a Ziploc bag once the month is over. I put the magazine pages for each issue in a bag with the index on top and when my husband asks about a recipe, I can easily glance at each one until I find the dish he wants.

And I'll tell you another thing... many of the dishes contain salt and pepper and maybe one other spice. The food is light and fresh tasting and delicious. In fact, since I throw out my jarred spices after one year and replace them, my pantry shelf is down to just a handful because that's all that are called for in the magazine. This magazine has saved me a TON of money. Not to mention time! My kids are 3, 1 1/2 and 6 months and this magazine has been a lifesaver in every way. The cooking techniques are so easy that I can often prepare dinner with my oldest daughter, which she loves. And I love that I am in and out of the kitchen quickly (most recipes I have found are less than 30 minutes) and I am enjoying my time in there more than ever. In fact, I even have the energy most nights to clean up the kitchen after I'm done :-)

I could go on and on but the most salient point is this: I feel healthier cooking from this magazine. My fridge is packed with produce like it never was before! I'm actually proud of the food I feed my family and that is worth every cent I've paid for this subscription and then some.

I've been a Martha Stewart fan for some time now and at one time subscribed to Martha Stewart Living. As disappointed as I was with MSL I am thrilled with Everyday Foods! This small magazine carries a big punch in every issue. Every recipe I made has been successful and good and some have been phenomenal. But the biggest selling point is the ease with which these taste sensations can be made because they boast simple ingredient lists, uncomplicated techniques and instructions and cooking times most under an hour. In addition, there are pages dedicated to educating with useful tips, techniques, how to guides and even 101 courses on things like wine. The recipe index in the back is useful, but the newly added nutritional info index really takes this one to the next level.

I've subscribe to countless other cooking magazines, most of which got initially purused then stacked somewhere to gather dust. Everyday foods has a special place on my cookbook shelf, but doesn't stay there long. These days it gets more play than any other cookbook and even my recipe file.

I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to cook, anyone who would like to learn to cook, anyone who wants to eat homecooked food but doesn't have a lot of time to prepare meals and well just about anyone else! I only hope they offer a hardbound edition annually as my magazines are sure to wear out from overuse!

Our growing row of Everyday Food issues has the potential to become an extremely resourceful cooking library, but where is the card catelogue? If I want to find a particular recipe or a new recipe that I can make with a particular ingredient, I'd have to flip through hundreds of pages.

Luckily, I located a downloadable Everyday Food Index at OmniNerd.com. When used together, the magazine and Index truly make something that can be used effectively everyday.

Everything about this magazine makes it ideal for a woman who works 10-12 hours a day and still likes to cook dinner every once in a while. It fits in every one of my purses, the recipes are simple, many have fewer than 10 ingredients and most do not take more than an hour to prepare and cook!! To top it all off - every recipe I have made was excellent!! I've tried several of the recipes and have been very happy with the results each time!

Finally, a cooking magazine that is actually useful to people that don't have 3 hours to cook dinner every night.

I have been very pleased with my subscription - the pictures are beautiful, the directions are clear and easy to follow, and the recipes aren't overly complicated. This magazine is great for college students, people just learning to cook, with hectic schedules, or limited kitchen space or utilites. This is a magazine that I end up keeping 99% of the recipes, instead of throwing 99% of them away.

I am a former "Martha Stewart Living" magazine subscriber, and while I enjoyed reading the recipes in that magazine, there were very few recipes I felt I would actually try on my own. There were so many steps, so many ingredients I didn't have or didn't know where to buy... the recipes were lovely, but unrealistic. When I received a sample issue of "Everyday Food," I was pleasantly surprised: while the magazine and the recipes have the same loveliness that we've all come to expect from Martha Stewart, they are also practical, easy-to-make, and delicious. In a nutshell, I'd say this magazine is "user-friendly."

I judge a cooking magazine by how many recipes I'd actually consider making. I made five recipes out of my very first issue of "Everyday Food," a record for me! Each one was simple to make, different from other food I've made, and absolutely wonderful. Out of the second issue, I made four of the recipes, with equally grand results. I compare this to my experience with my other favorite cooking magazine, "Cooking Light," where lately I'm lucky if I find ONE recipe per issue that I want to try.

The layout of "Everyday Food" is fantastic. The magazine is small (easy to collect and store!), the pages are uncluttered, and there is a finished picture of each recipe. There is minimal time spent on technique or discussions of particular ingredients; rather, the magazine is devoted simply to good, tested recipes. Even my husband will look at it, mouth watering as he turns the pages -- by contrast, he never so much glances at "Cooking Light" because there's too much "stuff."

If you want a cooking magazine that you'll actually use (and perhaps use more than your tried and true cookbooks), give this one a try.

[BONUS: if you're offered the free apron as a subscription bonus, take it! I received one, and it is wonderful... and cute!]

I couldn't say enough good things about this magazine if I tried...
I buy magazines all the time and had just recently stopped buying MSL. While that too is fab magazine, I'd often think, "Wow, that's a great recipe/project/idea. Maybe one day when I don't have a life outside of being a happy homemaker I can spend the time to do that..." This magazine is different - recipes for real people! The recipes are simple and easy to follow. The ingredients don't require shopping at specialty food stores and high-tech gadgets are not required. It is the first time I have made more than one dish from every issue so far. There are even recipes that use the leftovers!
A big thanks to Martha for thinking of the rest of us...

Before I discovered this fabulous magazine, I was never able to get into Martha Stewart Living publications because of the "do it all from scratch" style Martha preaches. However, Everyday Food isn't like that at all. It's always filled with pages of delicious and simple dishes, from appetizers to desserts, that aren't time-consuming to prepare. Perfect for a career girl like me.

This magazine is truly different from other MSL magazines and clearly is done with a specific target audience in mind: meaning those of us who love to cook, but aren't interested in doing everything from scratch.

Even my husband, Mr. Macho Guy, looks to this magazine for ideas when it's his week to cook. Whether you are a fan of creative new dishes, like me, or a fan of awesome comfort food, like my husband, this magazine is a great source to kick your meals up a notch!

Yummy yummy! Enjoy!

This summer I picked up a copy of this magazine for the first time. I ended up cooking seven or eight things out of that one issue! They were all wonderful and simple, but not so simple as to be dull. I made strawberry bread, peach cobbler, lime cookies with lime glaze, pork kabobs with apple and red onion, steak and cherry tomato kabobs, among other things. I am now a devoted fan of this magazine. I have subscribed to many cooking magazines for years and this is definitely the best one I have ever seen. Can't wait for the next issue.