This book will help you learn how to cook. Learning how to cook is the way to save money. You don't save by buying hamburger helpers and prepared foods; you save by buying fresh foods in season or in large supply when they are fresh and usually best and by preparing them from scratch at home. Why pay for someone else's work when you know how to do it and can save money for yourself? Cooking well doesn't take a great deal of time, and when you cook, you'll be eating far better meals than you can by buying from a freezer or at a restaurant. I'm eager to share this book, and I hope to have achieved most of the foregoing points in the following pages, which include a variety of dishes. In this book, you'll enjoy delicious meals, and these recipes are typical of the American approach of taking ordinary, everyday ingredients and, with a little love and imagination, turning them into something appealing, even exciting, and certainly fun to make, as well as to serve and eat.