The $50 Dinner Party: 26 Dinner Parties That Won't Break Your Bank, Your Back, or Your Schedule

by Sally Sampson and Samson

The subtitle of Sally Samson's The $50 Dinner Party astutely sums up the book: Twenty-Six Dinner Parties That Won't Break Your Bank, Your Back, or Your Schedule. And boy, does she deliver. This is a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684842289
• ISBN13: 9780684842288
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Fireside Books
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

I never leave for work without this book!

I highly recommend this book for anyone who loves to cook for friends or family. I spend most of my time cooking for strangers on private boats but I always receive fabulous feedback on any recipes from this book. Bake "Dain's Grandmother's Carrot Cake" for your next gathering with friends and you will be the star of the meal! The recipe is incredibly easy and sinfully good. I make it in a sheetcake pan and it slices up nicely for dessert portions.

Be famous for your dinner parties!

Go out and buy this book and you will be famous for your dinner parties. I have had this book for a while and I have cooked almost everything in it. The lasagne is to die for and there are even recipes for drinks. There is everything you need to be a successful dinner party host. Sally Sampson takes all the anxiety out of having people over for dinner.

the best dinner party cookbook for those on a budget

Try the incredible chocolate-bread pudding, yum!! Amazing.This is just a fab cookbook for those people who want to entertain, who want to impress their friends' taste buds, but just don't have the time or the cash to do so Martha Stewart fashion. The menus I've tried all work so well together. This is my one cookbook that gets heavy usage, eventhough I've got all those Silver Palate ones too. Also having the menus makes it so easy to plan a dinner party, the recipes work very well together, saving you the time of searching cookbooks trying to figure out what goes well with what.

GREAT PRICE FOR A GREAT BOOK

I BOUGHT THIS BOOK BEFORE IT WAS ON SALE AT THIS PRICE AND IT WAS WORTH EVERY PENNY! A LOT OF THE INGREDIENTS CAN BE PREPPED THE DAY BEFORE, SAVING YOU LOTS OF TIME AND AGGRAVATION. THE RECIPES ARE EASY TO FOLLOW AND TASTES GREAT.EVERYONE WILL THINK YOU SPENT SO MUCH TIME IN THE KITCHEN. SOME OF THE RECIPES I'VE USED JUST FOR A MONDAY NIGHT DINNER. THE RECIPES AREN'T SO EXOTIC, THAT YOU CAN'T FIND THE INGREDIENTS IN YOUR LOCAL SUPERMARKET. SO HAVE FUN, SAVE SOME CASH, AND ENJOY THE COMPLIMENTS AS THEY ROLL IN!