A few weeks ago I posted an incredibly easy, comforting, and satisfying recipe for roasted chicken legs and olives from Amy McCoy’s cookbook, Poor Girl Gourmet: Eat in Style on a Bare-Bones Budget
The layout of the cookbook is straight forward and easy to read with most recipes accompanied by beautiful photos Amy took herself. I love her narrative head notes for each dish. They read like a personal note from a friend. As I previously mentioned, each recipe also has an estimated cost for a family of four. When I made the roasted chicken dish as well as her polenta from the cookbook, I found the estimated cost to be very close to what I spent and very helpful in determining our food budget for the week.
The cookbook is also paperback and retails for $16.99 – very affordable and well worth it to me. If you love to eat well but hate paying a lot this cookbook is a great one to add to your collection, especially for beginning to intermediate cooks and most of all, families.
Amy and her publisher, Andrews McMeel Publishing, are providing three copies of Poor Girl Gourmet: Eat in Style on a Bare-Bones Budget to three randomly chosen readers of Savory Sweet life.
All you have to do is leave a comment on your favorite inexpensive, most satisfying dish you like to prepare.
If you would like an additional entry, tweet about this giveaway by copying and pasting the following…
” Just entered to win a copy of @PoorGirlGourmet cookbook http://bit.ly/9Qm0mE #SavorySweetLife”
Come back here and leave an additional comment with your Twitter handle letting me know you tweeted. One copy of the book will be reserved from the Twitter entries.
Contest will close Wednesday evening (Sept. 29) at 9pm PST and winners will be chosen at random (random.org) and updated here shortly after. Contest is open to those with US mailing addresses.
Don’t forget to visit Amy’s great food blog, Poor Girl Gourmet for more great recipes.
I also tweeted as @LibertyImages!
Mac & cheese (Alton Brown’s recipe, of course). The other fast & thrifty one I like to make is spaghetti with an egg poached in the tomato sauce; just carefully crack an egg into the sauce shortly before the noodles are ready, put a lid on, and wait until the whites of the eggs set.
@beansylovescake tweeted!
My fave cheap dish is tilapia with citrus herb sauce!
Spaghetti is one of my favorite things to eat, and it’s incredibly simple and cheap. Sometimes I just eat spaghetti noodles with butter, parmesan and pepper. Delish.
Pasta. A saute of any veggies handy — plus onions & garlic of course. Any leftover meat cut in thin strips & tossed in to heat — or start the saute with cubed bacon. De-glaze with wine or broth or whatever. toss with pasta. Add pasta water for the right consistency. Toss with cheese.
My go to recipe is fajitas. Quick, economical and ymmy.
I just tweeted as @oojoyjoy
Mac & cheese cooked on the stove top. Boil some pasta, make a bechemel sauce, add cheese and voila quick, easy and delicious!
I tweeted @bakedbybeth
Forgot my favorite inexpensive meal…I love love love making tuna noodle casserole!
Poor Girl Gourmet…right up my alley. Great idea for a cookbook, would love to have one of my own.
extra entry – I tweeted about your giveaway
Hmmm…. sooo many choices
tacos
quesadillas
enchiladas
nice big salad full of veggies and either tuna (can), or chicken (leftover)
panini sandwich
tweeted under @kahansen
Beans and brown rice. It’s healthy and covers all the amino acids.
I crave and like making baked chicken as my favorite inexpensive dish. With a variety of spices and sauces you can use, it’s super versatile!
We love spaghetti – easy and cheap!
I tweeted this from @marocmama
I love a simple pasta tossed with roasted fall vegetables and an olive oil garlic sauce!
Spaghetti is inexpensive. I’m looking for more inexpensive meals. My grocery budget is outrageous with 2 in diapers.
Sausage and peppers!!!
My favorite inexpensive recipe is arroz con pollo. All you need is whatever chicken you have on hand(filets, breasts, a fryer, legs or thighs), rice, chicken stock, roma tomato, paprika, oregano, salt and pepper, and peas. Awesome!
I tweeted! And RT’d even…books sounds perfect for daughter just out on her own and trying to wean herself from cheap fast food (and missing mom’s cooking I hear!).
I love making roasted tofu and sweet potato fries for a healthy tasty and cheap meal!