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Poor Girl Gourmet: Eat in Style on a Bare-Bones Budget
Poor Girl Gourmet Eat in Style on a BareBones Budget Author:Amy McCoy Love eating well but hate paying a lot? Amy McCoy?s cookbook, Poor Girl Gourmet (based on her popular blog of the same name), features decadent and delectable recipes for foodies with limited budgets, but sophisticated tastes.In Poor Girl Gourmet, McCoy breaks down the costs for each dish while also offering money-saving strategies, including ti... more »ps for growing and preserving your own food, as well as ideas for quick and delicious family meals. Most recipes serve at least four people for $15 or less, so it?s perfect for families on a budget?because eating well while saving money is something that appeals to all of us. McCoy, knowing that a gourmet meal can be enhanced by the occasional bottle of wine, also reviews more than 25 affordable wine varietals and blends, with pairing suggestions for many of the dishes. And there is a chapter of splurges ($15 to $30 per entrée for a family of four) for when you?re feeling fancy.Whether Amy is guiding you through her family recipe for Mom?s Meatballs and Not My Nana?s Red Sauce, passing along gardening tips, or telling you about the time she learned a painful and messy lesson on pureeing hot liquids in small batches, Amy?s warm, friendly, and engaging prose makes this a cookbook you?ll want to savor. She truly loves food?growing it, preparing it, enjoying it, trying new things?and that love really comes through in Poor Girl Gourmet. Her recipes are surprisingly easy, and best of all, they don?t rely on processed foods. She and her husband have found some creative ways to live well and eat well on a budget, and their experience is one that resonates with so many other people who are trying to do the same thing.« less
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