Tonight's Dinner: Home Cooking for Every Day: Recipes From The Cook Up

by Adam Liaw

Fall in love with home cooking all over again with Tonight's Dinner by Adam Liaw. This essential recipe collection delivers nightly meal inspiration from Australia’s favourite cook, with a diverse list of 80 easy, delicious recipes from SBS’s number one food show, The Cook Up.

Tonight’s Dinner brings us fresh, modern everyday food inspired by the expanding spread of dishes on Australian tables today. Adam’s warmth, humour and dynamic cooking-style will put the joy of cooking back into your kitchen easily, so you can feed your friends and family with thoughtful, healthful meals. These recipes require minimal preparation, are balanced in nutrition, affordable and light on the washing up! Because, often, the key to good home cooking is to just do good home cooking.

Adam covers all bases including Light Meals; Weeknight Dinners; Vegetables; Pasta and Noodles; Wok Wonders; Snacks, Sides and Sandwiches; and Sweets. Sample some Salmon & cucumber hand rolls or whip up some Fresh ricotta toast with braised onions and thyme. Relish your Lemon pepper fettuccini with haloumi before launching into Lamb shoulder tacos the following night. And don’t miss Adam’s cooking hacks in each recipe, and star guest contributions from The Cook Up.

With Tonight’s Dinner, you’ll soon realise that a meal’s difficulty has no bearing on how good it tastes.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking

224 pages, Hardcover

Published October 27, 2021

Reviews

[Claire · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've watched most of the series so it's great to have so many recipes and brought together here. Adam is so softly spoken and that comes across in the book as well. There are some amazing recipes in here. As well as some great advice in the back.

[Belinda]

Adam Liaw seems lovely but the recipes in this book have too much meat and not enough vegetables. Its definitely a once in a while rather than an everyday cookbook - the poor colon of anyone who eats meat like this cookbook recommends!

[Aleksandar · Rating 2 out of 5]

Good amount of recipes, but they seem to be adapted too much to the Australian palate. Besides that, the cookbook has no interesting stories by the author, it's literally just recipes. This is why people don't "count" cookbooks as books. Get some soul into it, man.

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

All the recipes from the show.
Magical photography.

[Shirl · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love this book. It's a great inspiration for everyday cooking as most ingredients are readily stocked in my pantry.

[Ellen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another great book from Adam Liaw - lots of fun looking recipes to try.

[Courtney · Rating 5 out of 5]

I miss The Cook Up.

This is a well presented, easy to read and easy to follow recipe book.

I've already made the Sour Cream and Pecan Cheesecake twice and it's been a divine experience both times. I do like the crust a little on the thinner side so I just don't make a much as indicated.

The Chicken Paprikash also delicious and easy. I imagine most of the pasta recipes with make it into my regular repertoire.

Also tonnes of handy tips and tricks. For each recipe and from various guests on The Cook Up.

EDIT (29/05/2025): the sour cream and pecan cheesecake has entered my regular rotation. I have adapted slightly, subbing out pecans for walnuts and making a smaller amount of the base as I don't like it as thick as the original recipe creates. This is the ultimate cheesecake. Probably only slightly edged out by the cheesecake in Beatrix Bakes but that one is way more work.