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    French Recipes: French Cooking: Beautiful French Food for a Dollar
    French Recipes: French Cooking: Beautiful French Food for a Dollar
    French Recipes: French Cooking: Beautiful French Food for a Dollar
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    French Recipes: French Cooking: Beautiful French Food for a Dollar

    By Chef Albert

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    The ongoing recession affects most households where it really counts -- right in the pocket. Unemployment, falling wages and rising food prices have caused over ten percent of all American households to claim government food assistance benefits.

    In fact, research has shown that it is hard for one in six Americans to put enough food on the family table each day. However, regardless of your financial situation, the chances are high you are looking for ways to cut costs in these uncertain times.

    Fortunately, there are many cost-effective and delicious meals that families on a budget can enjoy for less than $1 per serving. And to start you off there are twenty-one new delicious, healthy options included in the first of a new series of easy recipes simply called;

    Dollar Dinners

    Eat for Thirty Dollars a Month

    Examples;

    Gratinee (French Onion Soup)
    Cost $4 - Feeds Four
    Ingredients
    5 lb of thinly sliced onion
    1.5 litres of beef or chicken stock
    Olive oil
    4 oz Butter
    1 small glass of sherry
    Salt and pepper to taste

    Prepare
    Heat butter & olive oil and gently cook the onions until browned. (thirty minutes) Add the stock and bring to a boil and then simmer for twenty minutes. Add salt & pepper and fresh garlic if desired.

    Serve with sprinkled cheese and fresh crusty French bread and salad.

    Bistro Chicken
    Cost $4 - Feeds Six
    Ingredients
    4 skinned chicken breasts
    2 white onions
    1 cup of flour
    half a kilo of chopped mushrooms
    half litre of chicken stock
    Garlic, parsley, oregano & parsley
    salt & pepper

    Prepare
    Season the chicken breast with salt and pepper and then dust with flour. Fry gently in olive oil for ten minutes each side and then place into a casserole dish.

    Add the rest of the ingredients and fry in the chicken juices for ten minutes before spooning over the chicken breasts.

    Add chicken stock and a little flour and simmer gently for thirty minutes (add cream towards the end if desired)

    Serve with chopped basil on a bed of rice or with French fries.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlbert Jack
    Release dateFeb 18, 2016
    ISBN9781310476051
    French Recipes: French Cooking: Beautiful French Food for a Dollar
    Author

    Chef Albert

    Albert Jack is a writer and historian. His first book Red Herrings and White Elephants explored the origins of well-known idioms and phrases and became an international best-seller in 2004. It was serialized in the Sunday Times and remained on their best-seller list for sixteen straight months. He followed this up with a series of other popular titles including Shaggy Dogs and Black Sheep, Pop Goes the Weasel, What Caesar did for my Salad & They Laughed at Galileo. Fascinated by discovering the truth behind the world's great stories, Albert has become an expert at explaining the unexplained, enriching millions of dinner table conversations and ending bar room quarrels the world over. He is now a veteran of hundreds of live television shows and thousands of radio programs worldwide. Albert lives somewhere between Guildford in England and Bangkok in Thailand. OTHER BOOKS BY ALBERT JACK javascript:void(0) Red Herrings and White Elephants Shaggy Dogs and Black Sheep Phantom Hitchhikers Loch Ness Monsters and Other World Mysteries Pop Goes the Weasel The Old Dock and Duck What Caesar Did for my Salad Black Sheep and Lame Ducks It's a Wonderful Word Money for Old Rope Part 1 Money for Old Rope Part 2 The Jam: Sounds From the Street Want to be a Writer? New World Order: The Bilderberg Conspiracy and the Last Man in London Rose Versus Thistle They Laughed at Galileo The Greatest Generation - Diary of a 1st & 6th Airborne Paratrooper 9/11 Conspiracy Debt Freedom Program Gun Control

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      French Recipes - Chef Albert

      Introduction

      The ongoing recession affects most households where it really counts -- right in the pocket. Unemployment, falling wages and rising food prices have caused over ten percent of all American households to claim government food assistance benefits.

      In fact, research has shown that it is hard for one in six Americans to put enough food on the family table each day. However, regardless of your financial situation, the chances are high you are looking for ways to cut costs in these uncertain times.

      Fortunately, there are many cost-effective and delicious meals that families on a budget can enjoy for less than $1 per serving. And to start you off there are twenty-one new delicious, healthy options included in the first of a new series of easy recipes

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