Poor Girl Gourmet Eat in Style on a Bare Bones Budget

by McCoy, Amy

• ISBN13: 9780740789908
• ISBN10: 0740789902
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-01
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Summary

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 tips 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 budgetbecause 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 entree 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 foodgrowing it, preparing it, enjoying it, trying new thingsand 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.

Author Biography

As a successful freelance producer for network and cable television, Amy McCoy once enjoyed gourmet food with little concern for price. Then the recession hit and the freelance work all but disappeared. But in the economic downturn, McCoy found her mission: to eat the best food she and her husband could while spending as little as possible.

To that end, McCoy created her blog, poorgirlgourmet.blogspot.com, where she offers up her insights alongside delicious gourmet recipes that are inexpensive to prepare. McCoy lives on a gentleman's farm in southeastern Massachusetts.

Online:

poorgirlgourmet.blogspot.com