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Quick and simple weeknight recipes that bring the delicious flavors and health benefits of the Mediterranean diet into your home—from the James Beard award-winning team at Milk Street
 
The Mediterranean diet is so much more than olive oil, grilled fish, and just-harvested vegetables—or its well-earned reputation for health. It is a diverse cuisine that encompasses the cultures and traditions of Southern Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. The food is direct, simple, and honest, served without disguise or embellishment.
 
Every Tuesday Nights recipe delivers big flavor, but the cooking is quick and easy. These 125 Mediterranean dinners are ready in under 45 minutes, with many taking just 20 minutes:
Chicken alla Diavola with BroccoliCrispy Pasta with Chickpeas, Lemon and ParsleyFennel-Steamed Salmon with Warm Olive and Caper VinaigretteShrimp with Orzo, Tomatoes and FetaPanzanella with Fresh MozzarellaGreen ShakshukaFlank Steak with Tomato-Eggplant Ragu
 
Chapters are organized by how you cook, focused on time—Fast (45 minutes), Faster (35 minutes), and Fastest (under 25 minutes)—while others dive into themes such as Hearty Vegetable Mains, Supper Soups, and Flat and Folded—including pizza, flatbreads, pita sandwiches, and panini. Many of the recipes require only one piece of cookware, and they all are built from pantry staples.
 
Dinner? Solved—every night of the week.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Voracious (April 6, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0316705993
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316705998
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.09 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.8 x 1.15 x 10.85 inches
Reviewer: nan
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Easy to make dishes!
Review: I like the photos of the recipes of this book, they're self explanatory in the details of the photo. I also like the Content page that has the recipes organized under chapters that time managed. Such titles are: "Fast, Faster & Fastest" for example. There are Heart Vegetarian recipes also. So far, my favorites are the Tuscan-style Spring Vegetable Soup & Soupe au Pistou, listed under Supper Soups. I was surprised at the flavor. Other faves:Barley "Risotto" Mushrooms, Kale & Gorgonzola, and the one I have made more than once, Orecchiette with Coriander and Cherry Tomatoes.The ingredient list is easy to read but the how to part takes some time. The best thing to do is read it over and over, then prep, then cook while keeping the book open. I personally like directions with bulleted sentences that are simple to read. In the meantime, I am working my way through and learning something new, like the Umbrian-Style Chicken Cacciatora!

Reviewer: angbrey
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fabulous & Delicious Recipes for Everyone
Review: This book has some delicious recipes that even the pickiest of eaters will love. What I've made so far, are very flavorful. There are fresh salads, soups, and lots of protein such as chicken, fish, beef and pork. We don't eat pork or beef but I'm able to still use those recipes for fish or chicken, or even vegan options. Every recipe has a gorgeous photo for reference and the hardcover size of this book feels like high quality. I also love that recipes are placed in categories based on how fast they are and each recipe tells the amount of time it takes to prepare. And this is real cooking, these are healthy home made meals that you put your heart into making for the people you love to help them maintain health and healing. They are not shove in the microwave or oven for 10 minutes. You use fresh ingredients and there will be chopping of veggies and mincing garlic. Most of these recipes will take 25-40 minutes to prepare. This book would make a great gift for anyone who likes to cook.

Reviewer: Stephen Staton
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great pictures and detailed instructions.
Review: We have tried over half a dozen recipes out of this book and all have been excellent. The recipes are complete and detailed. Take your time and thoroughly familiarize yourself with the techniques used in the recipes and you will be treated with a dish that looks like the photos and tastes delicious.Like all of Milk Streets books no expense was spared on the photography.Wish the recipes included nutritional information.

Reviewer: Robbie Cheadle
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A useful book with quick and easy recipes
Review: This is a lovely collection of Mediterranean based recipes which has been put together by the author with the objectives of speed and simplicity for everyday cooking in mind. The recipes are grouped under various headings included Fast (approximately 45 minutes start to finish), Faster (approximately 30 minutes start to finish) and Fastest (approximately 25 minutes start to finish) and then Salad Suppers, Hearty Vegetarian, Supper Soups, and Flat and Folded. The recipes used mainly common Mediterranean spices and ingredients that are easy to find in local shops and result in wholesome and tasty meals.Several of the recipes use a broiler for the cooking process. I did not at the time know a broiler was an oven grill so I modified the cooking process for those recipes to one I am familiar with with great success.I also used food items I had available in my house and did not purchase items specifically to make the recipes. As a result, my meals varied a bit from the ones in the book. I think the ease with which I adapted the recipes to suit my ingredients and cooking methods, was a big positive for the usefulness of this book.

Reviewer: Meara
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Delicious and easy to see recipes
Review: Recently purchased this and all three recipes I have tried so far have been truly delicious, above my expectations and not too difficult either. I really appreciate that ever recipe has a big picture for me to look at so I can get a feel for what the final result will be. Every recipe seems to be approachable and there are not a bunch of extraneous ingredients that don't really add to taste. Each recipe has a time category so you have an idea of how long it will take. The longest category so forty five minutes, so these are all reasonable for weeknight meals.I do wish nutrition facts were included with the recipes, there seems to be plenty of room in the page.

Reviewer: Melly
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Best cookbook ever!
Review: I have made many of the recipes from this book and both my husband and I have really loved them! Most of the recipes we've tried have been very flavorful and very delicious. Most of the recipes are pretty easy to make too. I've had to purchase some spices I haven't used before such as Aleppo pepper, but the little extra effort to buy them is well worth it because everything turns out so good! I would highly recommend this cookbook to anyone looking for healthy meals that are pretty easy to make and taste great!

Reviewer: KateG
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great cookbook
Review: I want to make every recipe.

Reviewer: Catherine Hall
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Buy the book
Review: Y'all. I love a good cookbook. I just received this on August 9th. In my original order, I accidentally bought two copies, I was going to return one but have since decided to gift it to an aunt. Then since that, I've ordered another copy to send to my dad. I've been cooking primarily out of this cookbook since receiving it, I've yet to make something that my partner and I have not loved. the ingredients are simple and non-pretentious. The flavor is out of this world. The recipes are easy to make and you're not spending all night in the kitchen for one dish. I cannot speak highly enough of this cookbook. Some of my favorite recipes thus far: Tomato-braised cauliflower with feta and mint, Scallops al Ajillo, Suma Spiced chicken cutlets with tomato and onion, Penne alla silane, fennel-steamed Salmon with olive and caper vinaigrette, chicken alla diavola with broccoli. Buy buy buy!

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I was looking for low calorie dips for veggies and chips. Also vegetarian meals. I found both.

Reviewer: Sarah Stewart
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: The contents of the book are fabulous. Hardly a dish I wouldn't eat.The book itself arrived damaged, which is very disappointing, especially since it was purchased with a gift voucher.

Reviewer: Judy Krist
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This book as all the Milk Street cookbooks, does not disappoint. Every recipe I have made from this book has been a flavourful hit!!

Reviewer: Reverend K
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I have few books with many good recipes and many books with few good recipes. Returns have been diminishing book after book, but I invariably try to give books the benefit of the doubt. This is the book which made me finally decide to never buy another cooking book.In the introduction, it is stated that the theme which unites the regionally-diverse recipes is that "this is food that people really eat across the Mediterranean" and that "the food is direct, simple, honest". I contend that it is the opposite. It is pompous, tricky and dishonest.Roasted meat recipes and pasta recipes seem to form the bulk of the book. I am not going to roast meat every day. The pasta recipes are esoteric and I doubt I will make any of them. I have an authentic pasta book; that is simple and honest. Many of the recipes in this book are "inspired" by restaurants or cookery books. Many of the Middle Eastern recipes are "inspired" by Western-based restaurants or writers. There's Andalusian-style, Provincial-style, Greek-style, [insert region]-style nonsense. So much for food that people of the region really eat.Adding tahini or pomegranate molasses to a dish doesn't make it Middle Eastern. The monstrosity which is brussels sprout "tabbouleh" shows a lack of knowledge of the essence of the dish. Mujaddara is a poor man's dish. It doesn't get any simpler than this. It shouldn't (and doesn't) take 45 minutes to make. Again, a lack of knowledge of the essence of the dish.You can tell that the recipes were created in a food lab from the combination of cooking methods and multeity of bowls, pans, skillets, et cetera used in any given recipe. Oh and every other recipe in the second half of the book seems to involve a Dutch oven.Like I said, pompous, tricky and dishonest. So, I'm done with cooking books (at least until Sabrina Ghayour releases another book).

Reviewer: Frédérique Pomerleau
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This book is amazing, highly recommend!