Welcome to The Frugal Cook!

publication date: Jan 21, 2008

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author/source: Fiona Beckett

Those of you who are regular visitors to this site may enjoy my new blog The Frugal Cook. It's going to be a day to day - or regular, at least - record of my research for a book of the same name to be published this autumn by my publisher Absolute Press (who also published the Beyond Baked Beans books)

The aim of the book is to show how to make the best use of every thing you buy so that you don't end up at the end of the week with a couple of bin bags of leftovers to throw out. It does mean thinking a bit harder about what you buy and what you're going to use it for but not necessarily having to spend more time in the kitchen. Yesterday I made a big stew which took about 20 minutes preparation time (and 2 1/2 hours cooking time) but tonight it only took me 10 minutes to heat up the leftovers and cook a couple of veg.

How does it differ from this site? Well it's less student-oriented so some of the things you may not fancy (offal, for instance) and some may need a bit more skill or experience than you have at the moment but basically think of the blog as a diary of a work in progress and this site more as a magazine with tried and tested tips and recipes.

I welcome your comments on both.

Comments

Anonymous

Just wondering ifyou could explain why you don't use onion in your basic bolognaise recipe. Is it because it can be difficult for students to fry (I remember finding it very hard to cook when learning) but still, am looking for a truly great bolognaise sauce.

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