Serve Up a E25 - Dinner Party ; Not Quite Ready for the Hair Shirt Diet? Don't Distress. Canny Shopping and Clever Recipes Can Make the Best of Even the Tightest Budget Writes Tom Doorley
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AS revealed by yesterday's Irish Daily Mail Cost of Living Index, the price of food is soaring. The cost of general groceries has increased by five per cent in the past month, bread is up 12 per cent and the humble potato up nine per cent. So how to entertain in such an economic climate? Well, it's not impossible. My challenge is to feed six people three courses for EUR 25 - three courses that constitute a dinner party as distinct from family supper.
Where to start? Well, some of the best food in the world is the food of the poor. The joy of good food is often not the cordon bleu stuff that gastronomes rave about, all foie gras and truffles. No, the joy lies in dishes where great flavours and combinations are coaxed out of humble materials and you get a wonderful trumpet blast of sheer taste and enjoyment.See the full content of this document
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Serve Up a E25 - Dinner Party ; Not Quite Ready for the Hair Shirt Diet? Don't Distress. Canny Shopping and Clever Recipes Can Make the Best of Even the Tightest Budget Writes Tom Doorley
With this in mind, I thought I'd look at France. More particularly, the kind of food in proper French bistros, not the sort designed for tourists in large cities; the kind that does a roaring local trade and where the visitors are the only ones ordering the fillet steak.
THE SALAD SOLUTIONWhat about a first course? A salad is a good kick-off. Nice and light; gets in some of your daily fruit...See the full content of this document
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