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(More customer reviews)The Poor Chef, Charles Mattocks has written a much needed cookbook `Eat Cheap but Well`. We really need to do both these days. He points out that so many are watching cooking shows now but it seems less are cooking; instead getting take out or using the micro wave.
Recipes are marked with a cost guide: c =under $5 for 4, $ under $7 for 4, and $$ under $7 for 2. There are so many needed good tips, such as cautions about washing anything raw chicken comes into contact with. Explanations of the dishes are written before each recipe, explaining what it is, some substitutions that can be made for ingredients or in order to make the recipe vegetarian - all very good hints.
There is one recipe per page which leads to less confusion and mistakes made. The print is of of a decent size. The only bad thing is that the explanations before each one is written in a lighter brown ink , which is sometimes harder to see.
There are many multi cultural recipes as well as favorites such as chicken and dumplings (by the way a great version) including his tips on adding flour as a thickener. One grand thing about the contents of the book is that most of the recipes are for what could be used for main meals: poultry, pork, meats, pasta, fish, seafood, eggs, salads, soups and sandwiches.
So this is truly a help for eating cheap when you have this many main dishes in a cookbook. Even some of the vegetable-vegetarian pages could be and are main dishes. Only about 30 pages are devoted to vegetable-vegetarian and desserts. There are about 16 pages of illustrations of various dishes and the index is very good with recipes listed under the main ingredients.
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