Hairy Bikers - The Hairy Bikers Everyday Winners: 100 Simple and Delicious Recipes to Fire Up Your Favourites!

Wed like to dedicate this book to all those people who took the time and trouble to fill in our survey. Youve helped us make an amazing collection of recipes and for that we thank you.

Its been a tough couple of years and during the various lockdowns weve all been doing more cooking at home than ever before. We know a lot of people have enjoyed developing their skills in the kitchen, but money can be tight and so is time. You dont always want to spend hours coming up with something to eat, but you do want to love what you make.

We set our hearts on giving you our readers a cook book for every day, with a mix of easy meals and some more special recipes for when you do have a bit more time or want to give friends and family a treat. Instead of just sitting scratching our heads, we had a genius idea we decided to find out exactly what you all like to eat. So we got on social media and asked you to tell us your five favourite go-to dinners the ones you cook on a regular basis and that you know and love; also, your two best-loved puddings and two signature bakes. We werent asking for recipes, thats our job. We just wanted to find out what everyone was cooking and eating. We werent sure what sort of response we would get and we promised to list the names of 100 of the people who got in touch as a thank you have a look at .

Wow you did us proud. We were overwhelmed to find that nearly 5,000 people answered our call for help and the results were incredible. We ended up with more than 20,000 main meal suggestions, 8,000 puddings and 4,000 bakes to think about.

Top of the list were tried-and-tested dishes, such as spag bol, Sunday roasts, curries, fruit crumbles and chocolate cake no surprises there and they are things we all love. And there were also plenty of ideas for great variations on those classics and for international, eclectic and exciting dishes that really got our taste buds going. A spreadsheet was produced and we got to work analysing all the info. Hours and hours were spent in zoom calls, coming up with recipes inspired by you that we hope everyone will want to try. We created more than 200 new recipe ideas, based on your best-loved meals, and after much discussion, we managed to whittle them down to what we think are 100 real belters for this book. It was tough but we did it!

What we wanted to do was build on your favourites. For example, people obviously love a good burger and there were loads of suggestions for exciting variations that we have worked on and developed. Big thanks to whoever suggested the Lindstrm burger a Scandinavian version that includes beetroot and capers with the beef and is served with a fried egg on top. Then theres our chicken katsu burger a fantastic fusion of eastern and western classics and a new veggie burger. Weve got some tasty new curries for you too, including a great Caribbean curry recipe and a genius combo of a rendang and a balti.

Mexican dishes, such as fajitas, have become hugely popular and we know everyone loves a fish finger, so guess what weve come up with? Fish finger fajitas! They are a joy, we promise you. And we cant wait for you to taste our margarita chicken fajitas cocktails and supper all in one.

Then there are our new puddings and cakes. They will make you swoon. Bakewell tart meets cream and fruit to make a Bakewell trifle! The most outrageous brownies ever and a bread and butter pudding with chocolate and bananas that were sure Elvis would have gobbled up.

One of the many things we loved about our survey was that ideas came from all corners of the world from Bulgaria, India and Italy and everywhere in between. Were so fortunate in this country that all sorts of international ingredients are readily available in supermarkets, making it easy to eat around the world at home as well as in restaurants.

Decades ago we met a lady in Argentina who cooked us a pudding she called her warhorse a recipe she said was always successful and guaranteed to please. The aim of this book is to produce a collection of our warhorse recipes things youll really want to eat and that youll be happy to come back to time and time again. We hope weve got these recipes bang on and that theyll become firm favourites in your household. So, go on, dive in and maybe instead of five go-to dishes youll end up with a hundred!

Love,