Spanish Made Simple: Foolproof Spanish Recipes for Every Day Hardcover – May 2, 2017

While I can't deny that it's a well-written cookbook that has a lot of Spanish food in it, I am disappointed in this book based on its premise. This book is marketed as a cookbook for those who want to cook Spanish food everyday or in their weekday repertoire. It is catered to people who live outside of Spain and desire to infuse their daily food life with some Spanish culture. There are other books about food cultures that achieve this goal beautifully (Ricky Bayless' Everyday Mexican is a wonderful example of this.)I looked at every recipe in this book, and many are good. What disheartens me is that many of the recipes require specific ingredients that must be custom ordered, found in a farmer's market or big city international grocery story, and thus are out of reach for me, as a live in the country and don't have access to a lot of the ingredients listed. Sure, I could order them here, but that is another complication in my grocery budget. There are no recommendations for substitute ingredients based on the consumer''s life nor are there twists that one can apply to the dish to change it up (see Ricky Bayless' book I mentioned.)All that aside, there are numerous recipes in here that take over 3 hours to cook. Yo man! Look at the title of your own book. It's called Spanish Made Simple. What about 3 hours is simple and who is your intended target audience that they would even have three hours in the middle of the week to put together these dishes? That is unreasonable.If Spanish food is your passion and you want more recipes, then sure, buy the book. There are better ones out there, such as Penelope Casas' Food and Wines of Spain (considered the Julia Child book for Spanish cooking) and one pot Spanish (same author). I wanted to love this book. I really did. It just doesn't serve my needs the way the title made me think it would.

The book came right away and was in great shape. I was very happy.

Worth it..great book with a ton of different recipes. Most are easy to follow if not all..some take a little longer so plan ahead but overall a 5 star book. Glad I added it to my Spanish collection and enjoyed it very much so far..I cooked several recipes. Enjoy!

My husband is from Spain & this has so many of his favorite recipe in it.Beautiful pictures, simple recipes, authentic Spanish dishes!

Amazing. Easy to follow. I would love to buy all of his books.

Easy to follow recipes that turn out great

Easy to read and dishes are easy to prepare. So many great recipes even when you're dairy free. Try it!

Great book

Loved this book. Bought on the back of the Tapas book. I was worried there might be massive duplication, there wasnt! Working my way through the recipies now yummee

Arrived promptly p. Recommended.

Omar has done it again. Having bought the first book I was looking forward to the new one and did not disappoint. I've found most ingredients easy to find in my local supermarket and I especially like that most recipes come with a tip for upgrading the dish, replacing some ingredients with more unusual ones like ducks eggs on the huevos a la flamenca for example. My favourite will have to be the cachopo asturiano, in essence a spanish cordon bleu with serrano ham to make it all the more better.

Great book, great recipes

Very good quality book with easy to understand recipes and methods. I also bought the Tapas revolution which I must admit I prefer.