i think its a good book if you want to make fancy food you would never cook. people dont cook lobster and coconut soup! it just seems food that nobody would want to try. y can't we just have a basic cookbook showing how to make pies? soups? normal fish cakes or burgers not all this fancy mumbo jumbo.

it was a let dow nthis book

I am a big fan of Delia but I was disappointed by this book. Her reliance on pre-made ingredients, jars and tins is a step backwards. It also means that a lot of the recipes are high in salt or sugar. My favourite of her books is her Winter Collection, which is packed with recipes I use time and time again.

Most people here are saying that it is a boring, lazy book.
When I bought this, I thought that it was a fresh start to Delia's recipes, as most of the she made before, half the things you've probably never heard of!
But this new book gives you an advanced knoledge of simple recipes that you can buy cheaply at your local shop, and of which, you can make delicous recipes from it!
I thank elia for this, it was a very good book buy!

Delia must have got lazy in her older years cos this is the student bible.

Lazy Lazy recipes you could think up yourself with ingredients like a packet of fish fingers and a strawberry yoghurt. Interesting to see her pea and ham soup has the same salt levels as 23 bags of crisps....yes 23 bags of crisps.

eat healthy folks....avoid delias drivel

As a huge Delia fan for years I was extremely disappointed with Delia's latest offering. Her latest book is full of recipes that contain processed and frozen foods. Delia is out of step with most other celebrity chefs at the moment who are encouraging people to use fresh local produce. They are also helping people to cook good food on a budget. Processed foods are far more expensive. I would recommend Gordon Ramsay's Fast Food, Nigella Lawson's Nigella Express or any of Delia's previous books.

I think it's a damn good idea for a book. When I come home from work the last thing I want to do is prepare some extravagant meal and I'm fed up with microwave ready meals. I like the way the book shows how to do things that more experienced cooks think are easy. This book is for people like me whose cooking repertoire consists of cooking toast and making tea.

There are hundreds of quick and easy recipes and they don't need to come from tins. The spaghetti bolognasie is a joke it only takes 20 minutes from raw ... tinned mince.. I dont think so Delia! All that added salt and sugar .. ?!?

Although it has some good recipes and they are in the usual Delia vein (nothing too exotic but some nice, tasty dishes or revised classics) they all rely too much on pre-packaged ingredients.

I know the idea is to 'cheat' at cookery but just buying everything ready-done and Delia giving instructions on how to open the packet and put it together, is hardly 'cooking'! She even goes so far as to buy ready chopped vegetables - oh come on! Surely people know how to chop a vegetable by now!

Good ideas but overshadowed it being glorified packet-food.

Well this has to be one of if not the best cooking book
every its great for the working mums & dads and if my child who is just starting out to cook. she cooks in school as gcse lessions so she knows how to cook from scrate and now we all know how to cook the cheats way and it still is great food and the best bit all delia's books tell you where to get the food from. great book cant wait for the NEXT ONE well done delia.................

Contrary to recent opinion I actually loved this book and consider it a God send to women like me who work full time but still gain much pleasure from providing a home cooked meal for their family when they all arrive home in the evening. Certainly preferable to ready made microwave meals and fast food.