Love eating well, but hate paying a lot? Amy McCoy’s cookbook, Poor Girl Gourmet: Eat in Style on a Bare-Bones Budget, features decadent and delectable recipes for foodies with limited budgets, but sophisticated tastes.
With the economic downturn Amy transformed from willy-nilly food spender to parsimonious gal. This resulted in a popular blog and a delicious [...]
From Poor Girl Gourmet: Eat in Style on a Bare Bones Budget
Serves 6 to 8, $5.00 or less
Estimated cost for four: $1.57. Ding-ding-ding—this is the least expensive stand-alone recipe in the entire book (roasted garlic isn’t exactly a snack—at least not for most people I know). And, the lowest cost way to make this is, [...]
From Poor Girl Gourmet: Eat in Style on a Bare Bones Budget
Serves 4, $5.00 to $10.00
Estimated cost for four: $6.67. The chicken legs should cost no more than $1.49 per pound. Rounding up, we’ll call it $4.50 for the 4 legs. At $6.99 per pound, ¼ pound of olives will cost roughly $1.75. The olive [...]
Everyone knows the South is famous for its culinary traditions, but even with as many Southern cookbooks as there are today, there’s still uncharted territory left to explore. Fortunately, for all foodies and lovers of hearty food that feeds both body and soul, Joan Aller unearths a mother lode of southern Appalachian sustenance for Cider [...]
The artificial ingredients in some store-bought ice creams are enough to frost even the hottest fans of cool treats, particularly in a world where everyone is seeking out fresh and natural foods. Sara Engram and Katie Luber come to the rescue with their latest cookbook, Spice Dreams: Flavored Ice Creams and Other Frozen Treats (Andrews [...]
From Spice Dreams: Flavored Ice Creams and Other Frozen Treats
Makes about 3 cups
This recipe for mango sorbet is a winner even without the spices. But cinnamon and cumin lend an appealingly adventurous streak to mangoes, so it’s a shame not to let the spices shine. We like the full teaspoon of each spice, but it’s [...]
From Spice Dreams: Flavored Ice Creams and Other Frozen Treats
Makes about 1 ½ quarts Basil is a versatile herb, and relatively easy to grow. In this appealing ice cream, the flavors of fresh and dried basil bring out the best in each other. This ice cream is especially good after a summer barbecue of spicy [...]
“Cindy Mushet’s “Baking Kids Love” is a definite stand-out. The author has done an incredible job putting together a collection of infallible recipes that will appeal to every kid in your life - big and small (and adults too). ” ––Project Foodie http://www.projectfoodie.com/spotlights/cookbooks/baking-kids-love.html
“Cindy’s 11-year-old daughter, Bella, helped her create the book and offers a running [...]