Cooking Mag Mommy

After tonight's meal, I started a blog post about traditional St. Patrick's Day dishes but quickly realized that I had nothing new to add to that discussion. So in the spirit of the day of green, I will introduce the next component that I want to add to this blog. How much green am I spending to make these dishes? Both Richard and I assumed our grocery bill for the month would go up while I was making all the recipes from each month's Gourmet magazine. As I mentioned in an earlier post, Gourmet usually has a number of recipes that use obscure and often expensive ingredients. This month, however, that has not been the case. Although the Korean meal I made last Friday did have a number of non-traditional items, surprisingly, nothing I purchased was very expensive. The biggest cost is usually for meats or seafood and that menu used only short ribs and shrimp. Neither are very expensive. So instead of just assuming I am spending more, I want to come up with an approximate cost...