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 love bean soups-any kind of dried bean cooked in the crockpot with a leftover hambone or hamhocks, onion, carrot celery, and often a can of tomatoes.
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Spaghetti and meatballs!! 🙂
Quesadillas are my go-to dish, especially with my kids. I usually keep some whole wheat tortillas in the fridge, and my kids like cheese quesadillas. For my husband and me, I try and keep some frozen cooked chicken strips in the freezer to make chicken and cheese quesadillas. Add a little bit of salsa and sour cream on the side – simple and tasty!
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I like to make home-made chicken noodle soup! With just a whole chicken, a few veggies, water, spices, and home-made noodles from flour, egg and water, it’s a very economical meal!
I love baked potatoes and will top them with whatever I have sitting around, chopped or shredded leftover meat, cheese, onion, broccoli, bacon, leftover gravy or just good old butter and salt and pepper.
My favorite, easy last minute meal?
Flour tortillas
A can of black beans
Cheddar cheese
salsa
Drain and rinse beans, mix with as much cheese as you want, scoop into tortillas, add some salsa. Microwave for 45 seconds or until cheese is melted. Delish!
Tweeted for the Poor Girl Gourmet. My favorite comfort food…soup beans. (Thats pinto beans to you flatlanders)
A pot of chili along with a pan of cornbread with chilies.
Yummy!
I just tweeted about your giveaway from @katiedelaski
I love to make anything with lentils! Thanks for this giveaway!
I make no-bake rum balls for parties. Just buy a box of vanilla wafer cookies, crush them up with a cup of chunky peanut butter and 1 cup of spiced rum. Mix well and let the dough firm up in the refrigerator for a few hours. Then roll them in a light cinnamon and confectioner sugar coat to keep them from being sticky. Keep in the fridge until ready to serve. QUICK, Cheap, and easy!
Sloppy Joe mini buns or you can make them into Bao’s.
You can use turkey, soy crumbles or beef for this recipe. Brown the meat or soy up in a pan along with equal amounts of diced onion and green pepper. While it is browning you take a bowl and mix your sauce up in it. Mix 3 parts ketchup to one part of everything else, vinegar, brown sugar, worcestershire sauce, honey and a squirt of table mustard together. Pour the sauce over the browned meat and let it simmer for about twenty minutes or until it thickens. Place on gourmet mini buns or regular buns and serve with sweet potato fries or chips.
To make BAO’S: Roll out canned bisquets and place a tablespoon of mixture in the center. Make sure it is sealed all around the mixture and either deep fry them or bake them. I would opt for baking them.
You can make this meal for less then five dollars which includes gourmet buns if you have the sauce ingredients in the house.
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Honey Brushed Chicken Thighs spiced up with garlic, chili powder, paprika, cumin, and crushed red peppers. Cheap. Easy. Deeeelish!
Chicken soup is pretty economical – shredded chicken, broth or stock, perhaps rice, garlic, and carrots or potatoes if you have them. And salt, pepper and thyme!
Falafal wraps are relatively easy and cheap…it’s easy to whip up a batch of hummus to go along with it as well! 🙂
I tweeted about your giveaway!!
My favorite inexpensive dish i like to make is Mac N Cheese!!
Tacos are my cheap food of choice – cooking for just me makes me have leftovers for the week!
I love to make omelets. Very inexpensive and the kids love them!
I love making red lentil curry and serving it with Basmati rice. Lentils and rice are cheap (especially so when bought in bulk!), and I just add an onion, a tomato, some tomato sauce, a can of coconut milk, and some spices. Delicious and cheap!
lasagne is so satisfying, & a veggie one can be cheaper.
I love to roast chicken thighs with carrots and onions, just rubbing them with butter, olive oil and thyme with some garlic, pepper and salt! Cheap, healthy and delicious!