Mustachian Cookbook

[EarlyQuit]

Found out about this cookbook from a post on Lifehacker the other day. It is called "Good & Cheap." You can download a pdf version for free from the author's site: http://www.leannebrown.ca/cookbooks/
I flipped through a few pages and everything looked really good :)

[eyesonthehorizon]

OOH!! Thank you for posting this, these are gorgeous and take a great attitude toward the kitchen. Can't beat the price, either!!

This is sort of like an updated, prettier great-grandchild of an 1800s New York cookbook titled "Fifteen Cent Dinners for Workingmen's Families," available at the Library of Congress website below. It's still well worth the read for historical value alone - the passage admonishing nursing mothers not to drink beer is really something - and even where the nutritional information is out of date (focused perhaps a bit too much on cheap carbs to stave off starvation) it's got some good tips from an era when a lot of kitchen common knowledge was just taken for granted.

Fifteen Cent Dinners (Library of Congress website, PDF file)
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.20020806004fi.1

[auxym]

I downloaded a free PDF from the stone soup blog a while ago, it had some pretty good ideas. Stone soup calls itself a minimalist cooking blog, minimalist in the sense of few ingredients and also no requirement for fancy kitchen equipment.

Anyways, I had a look on their website and it seems they now sell ebooks, though they do have one they offer free if you give an email adress. Maybe sign up with a junk email and check it out?

http://thestonesoup.com/blog/

[imustachemystash]

Thanks for the recommendation.  The banana pancakes look good!