A cookbook you can cook from (Good Food: 101 Cheap Eats)

Member Name: lemontiger

Product:	Good Food: 101 Cheap Eats
Date:	30/03/09 (95 review reads)
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Advantages: Using cheaper foods, things you can actually make

Disadvantages: As with all cookbooks there's some you don't like

After having a good look at this in Waterstones, I saw some good recipes that I fancied trying and for £4.99 rrp decided to give it a try. This book is very small at around 15cmx15cm which makes it easy to carry round, as well as store in a small kitchen.

There are blatantly 101 recipes, and on each double spread page is a lovely photo of the cooked dish on one side and the recipe on the other. The recipe is really well set out with the details, cooking time, how many the recipe serves (usually 4), nutritional information including calories and a tip to alter and add a different twist.

Around half of the recipes I wouldn't make, but that's the same with every recipe book. As the recipes are cheap eats, many of them are based around cheaper items- sausages, pasta, rice, potatoes, tuna, chicken, ham. However, they are very creative uses, using different tasty sounding combinations. Also I didn't feel there are any really silly recipes in here like I've found in other books- no wasted pages on citrus salads, asparagus wrapped in parma ham or chilled soups. These are all proper meals which means something to me!

The cheesy jackets, leeks wrapped in ham, pork chops with gorgonzola and spicy spaghetti and meatballs are all things I have made and enjoyed. There are lots and lots of recipes I would still like to try and given these times of credit crunching, recipes for cheaper meals are surely welcome. Around 10 of the recipes are puddings, but the savouries look and sound far nicer to me.

Some things I intend to make soon are:
Mediterranean Shepherds Pie
Tuna Pizza Squares
Mustardy Toad in the Hole
Pork and Apricot Burgers
One Pot Lamb with Rice

Give it a try

Summary: Cook It