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ON A SHOESTRINGRecipes from the House of the Raising Sonsby SAMELA HARRISSee more quick and easy cookbooks - click here New softcover book, 212 pages, first published in 1996, this edition published 2009. All measurements are in metric. Journalist Samela Harris is a working mum with a healthy sense of the ridiculous. While raising her two sons, she attracted droves of hungry lads to generous spreads cooked on her shoestring budget. Along the way she learnt how to create a dinner party from two-minute noodles, how to trick the boys into eating and enjoying prunes, and how to make a meal from scraps while accidentally locked in the kitchen. Chapters include:
On a Shoestring is an Australian publication. All measurements are in metric and metric cup & spoon About the author Samela Harris was born in Adelaide. She worked as a journalist in London and Edinburgh, pausing to marry, bear two sons and spend five years as an organic market gardener in lush Surrey, England. It was there that her interest in hearty home cookery developed. Returning to Australia as a supporting mother, Samela made bountiful shoestring budget meals the core of a secure environment for her sons. It was such an inviting world that increasing numbers of boys kept hanging around for meals - and then just staying. Thus the House of the Raising Sons was born, and Samela's amusing tales of life with the lads and her economical recipes became a popular newspaper column. She works at the Adelaide Advertiser as a features writer, critic and Internet writer. Samela is the daughter of Australian poet and social commentator, the late Max Harris, to whom this book is dedicated
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