Immediately excited with the book photography, this was a great read. The recipes are well structured and easy to follow, and the book is well written, with both education and interesting tidbits. The first recipe on our table was the chili, shrimp and basil salad. The flavors were glorious, and it was well received by everyone at the table. The garden sesame noodles are spectacular, as are the korean chicken thighs and the tagine. For lunch tomorrow, we have made the curried chicken salad. On tasting, while making, I think it will be a hit! The recipes are simple, and the ingredient lists are not complex or hard to find in the regular store. I highly recommend!
Thank you to Cider Mill Press for the opportunity to read this ARC.

Thank you to NetGalley and Cider Mill Press for the opportunity to read an advanced reader's copy of this cookbook for an honest review.

I have been on a major cookbook kick recently, and “Family Dinners: The Ultimate Cookbook (Quick and Easy Weeknight Meals for the Whole Family)” by Cider Mill Press caught my attention because cooking during the work week can be super stressful at times.

This cookbook offers 300 quick and easy recipes that promise to satisfy the whole family. I was pleasantly surprised by the array of different cuisines and ingredients used so I could find just the right recipes to try with my family. I found the recipes were easy to follow with not too many steps from start to finish. Some of the meals had ingredients that were a little exotic and not in a standard pantry, but there were so many recipes to choose from that I could just skip over ones that I knew my family wouldn’t care for.

My favorite sections of this cookbook were Around the World and From the Garden. Since my family eats mostly pescetarian meals, I was pleased to see many meatless and fish-forward meals. The Crispy Salmon Rice was a major hit in my house with the sweet and tangy pomegranate sauce. Plus, it was super easy to put together since I had all the ingredients on hand. I have the recipes for Broken Past Soup, Garlic & Basil Baked Cod, Baked Egg Casserole, Turkish Pides, and Rosti Egg in a Hole on my upcoming meal plans for March!

I did deduct one star because my digital version didn’t include pictures of all of the recipes. I’m a visual learner and rely on the photos to know what the end product is supposed to look like, so I’m always a little disappointed when cookbooks don’t show pictures of all of the recipes featured.

Overall, I was pleasantly surprised by this cookbook and highly recommend it to any home cook wanting to make a delicious home cooked meal for their family during the busy work week.

Very nice cookbook. I found many recipes I plan to make. The photo sin the book were really nice representations of the meals. This book would make a nice gift.

The good: The ingredients for recipes featured in this book are accessible. Anyone, in basically any town in North America can find the ingredients to cook most of the recipes in this book. The recipes are simple, directions are clear and easy to follow.

The bad: The book is completely uninspired. Boring recipes, poor images and photographs of dishes. Dishes are almost too simple- American Chop Suey? Are you kidding me. This particular recipe features only 4 ingredients- and I'm sure it tastes as boring as it sounds.

If you're looking for inspiration to feed your family- I'd give this book a miss.

"There's nothing better than a home-cooked meal." Which is true! I love making meals for my little family and I'm always looking to find recipes that might be easy to make yet delicious. There are a lot of nice recipes in this book, but it is a little overwhelming with so many recipes inside. There are not nearly enough pictures in this book, however, I think it would be difficult to produce a book like that.

There are lots of recipes from around the world, with some familiar (like cottage pie, roast chicken, pizza etc.) and others that may not be familiar to a lot of home cooks (diri kole, mansaf, and duck curry)

This is a pretty nice collection of recipes, especially of you're looking for an encyclopedia-type book.

I received a free ebook copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for a fair review.

I always admire cooking book, because there is a lot of love and a lot of thought that goes into them.
This one packs an impressive amount of recipes and suggestions to save your dinner, and provides a lot of ideas from simple to more elaborate.

I did feel a bit of disconnect between what I expected based on the title and the book presentation.
If I think of a family dinner, I immediately think messy, crowded, colourful and cheerful. I think of whipping up something that is healthy, filling, quick and easy and that can nourish several people for maybe more than a meal.
However, looking at some of the recipes and at the photos showing them, I missed this element. Some of the plates looked beautiful, just not what I would realistically prepare in the context of a family dinner. Having said that, this may easily be just me.

I appreciated the neat presentation and the initial index with the spices and tools that should not miss in a kitchen.

This is a great cookbook with easy homemade meals that families will love. This has a variety of recipes so is a good "base" cookbook for someone just starting a collection.

I liked the book and the general idea of it but I feel like some of the recipes were a bit too simple - I know it's the point of the cookbook but I mean it more as "unimaginative". For example, some recipes like a rib-eye steak on a buttered pan were just something I don't think anybody needs a recipe book for. However some of the ideas I really did like so it's fine overall.

Thank you, Netgalley and Cider Mill Press for gifting me a copy of this e-arc. My review is entirely voluntary. There were some really good recipes included. I feel like the instructions were very clear simple and straightforward so that even a newer cook can handle them. The pictures make everything look amazing. I particularly liked the banana walnut French toast. The only suggestion I have is to group the recipes by group to make it easier to find what you’re looking for.

These recipes look so good and easy!! The main selling point is how quick and simple they are to make, especially when you come home from work and the last thing you want to do is cook. Can’t wait to try out a number of them!

Wow! This cookbook comes in at over 800 pages. That tells readers that it is absolutely jam packed with recipes. In fact, there are over 300 in all.

Begin by reading the short introduction. Next is a helpful inventory of kitchen essentials; these include everything from cookware to spices and more. And then the recipes. Categories for these include Weeknight Wonders, Comfort Classics, Hands Off, Around the World, From the Garden, and Elevated.

The illustrations made me hungry. The recipes look relatively easy to follow.

Try Green Shakshuka, Grilled Pork Loin with Green Goddess Pesto or Chicken Teryaki Burgers, to name just three.

There is enough variety here to meet many tastes.

Those looking for one book with many choices for meals will want to give this one a look.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Cider Mill Press for this title. All opinions are my own.

The cookbook have fantastic pictures for many of the recipes featured in the book. I especially enjoyed how easy it was to read the recipe and follow along with the instructions for preparation. The quick weeknight meals were great. I wrote many down to try and enjoyed the ones I did. I definitely will be picking this cookbook up to add to my collection!

Thank you Netgalley, and Cider Mill Press for sending me this advanced review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

I love the basic how to cook info, ingredient, and tool descriptions at the beginning. This is very helpful reference, and everything was explained well.

The photography was great, and it was nice to have a photo for every recipe. There was a huge variety of dishes, and flavors from different regions around the world. They looked reasonably authentic, with some minor tweaks for ingredients that are harder to find in the US.

The recipes were written extremely simply, and overall easy to understand. They do assume you have some basic cooking skills, so maybe not for a very beginner. Most recipes were only a few lines of instructions.

I would have liked some step by step photos for more complicated dishes, and longer instructions for more involved techniques. Since there were so many recipes, it really varied on how easy it would be to find the ingredients, but I think you could find decent substitutions at most grocery stores if needed.

There didn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to how the recipes were organized. It felt very random. With having over 300 recipes, I would have liked it to be organized by meal type (breakfast, lunch, etc) or region (Indian, Italian, Asian etc). It would be very difficult to find the type of meal you want to cook in this book. My rating would have been much higher if the book had been better organized.