Customer Reviews

The Good Egg: More Than 200 Fresh Approaches from Soup to Dessert

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Easy-to-follow recipes and useful information in a format that's a pleasure to read. In addition to the egg basics, this book contains several unusual ideas, including over a dozen pasta with egg recipes. Helpful hints such as how to rescue a broken hollandaise sauce, and "formulas" for many egg basics make this a book I will refer to often. The recipes include different ethnic variations, including, Indian, Mexican, Italian and Chinese, and cover virtually every meal category. I recommend this book to everyone who loves eggs.

I figured, you could boil and fry and egg and there wasn't much more to it, but hey! There are so many things, from appetizers to full meals based on this staple.

The old classics are presented here, of course, and instructions to make sure you get it right, but fancier, more elegant dishes are also here, so if you only have that carton of eggs in the fridge and not much more, you can still whip up something interesting!

I really like this book. I have three other cookbooks by marie simmons and they are all terrific. I have made 3 quiches and 1 egg salad and 1 strata recipe and they were all easy and delicious.

I own more than 400 English and 300 Japanese language cookbooks and this is one of the best! Most times I glance through pictures and recipes, but not this one - I read this book from cover to cover. It's that good.

The recipes are easy to follow and simply terrific. The instructions for making hard-cooked egg is so simple and fail-proof and learning this method alone made me wonder why this was never presented in all other books and magazines that I own.

This book is highly recommended!

I was very, very impressed with the inventiveness of the recipes in this book. I used one of the parmesan flan recipes at a dinner party and the guests were bowled over. This is book definitely contains original and inventive ideas!! I loved the baked egg appetizer recipes. I had never seen anything like that before. I like the fact that the author worked out the proper amounts and proportions for various ingredients, that takes time to ascertain properly and it only seem easy to someone who isn't really knowledgable about cooking.
Five stars and hurrah. I am using these recipes at dinner parties to great success.

I was very disappointed that this cookbook is basically the same dozen recipes with some minor changes in added ingredients. I was hoping for some new ideas on using eggs, and got same old. If you have never cooked with eggs at all it might be useful, but every basic cookbook has omelets, quiche, egg salad, custard, etc. and anyone with imagination can come up with their own flavoring and add in ideas. I bought it along with the "Totally Eggs Cookbook"for 1/4 the price and with less than 100 pages, and got more new ideas from the latter.