Review: Basic recipes that will help save money
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 20, 2012
The Poverty Cookbook:  My Favorites by Emily Waters is a basic cookbook filled with basic, thrifty recipes. This is not a bad thing as you can use her cookbook to cook from scratch and not be dependent on store bought ingredients for most recipes. A good example is her tuna casserole recipe which uses a homemade sauce instead of cream-of-something soup. You will need to purchase cream cheese to make this sauce but I do consider cream cheese a basic cooking ingredient, perhaps another cook may not.The book covers very basic recipes such as how to cook noodles using packaged noodles. I first thought Waters was going to give a recipe on how to prepare homemade egg noodles when I saw this recipe. Instead the recipe says to use 2 cups egg noodles, 1/2 teaspoon salt and to fill a pan 2/3 full with water. Pretty basic. It's a pity a recipe for homemade egg noodles was not found in this cookbook as egg noodles are not all that difficult to make. The toughest part of making egg noodles is finding enough counter space to roll the egg noodles out.Some of the other recipes you will find in her cookbook include:Egg ToastHam and Pineapple PizzaQuick Meat LoafChocolate Chip CookiesOverall, this cookbook is well written and offers a good selection of basic recipes.There is an active table of contents making navigation easy.Recommend.