(I do really mean cooking, not just microwaving ready meals or really basic student cooking - its really hard trying to divide recipes that are designed for 4 or 6 people!)
Thanks
Marie-E
2007-07-15 11:24:01 · 16 answers · asked by Marie-E 3 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
I NEVER cook for one person even though I live by myself. I'll cook and put the extras into zip look baggies and freeze those puppies and they never go to waste! A whole roast chicken is good for two.
You don't tell anybody what you like - Italian, Mexican, spicy or bland.
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2007-07-15 11:29:57 · answer #1 · answered by Freesumpin 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Cooking for one is really hard to do , to the point where it's very questionable whether or not it's actually worth the cost and effort .
Converting recipes is basically straightforward stuff once somebody has shown you how to do it correctly.
The problem becomes that at a single serving portion size , the recipes are all going to contain bastard numbers and may very well be impossible to actually make as one portion
Out of necessity therefore, portions have to increased so they are make-able .
One of three things will happen after that :
You will eat more than you intended to.
You will throw out more than you intended to
or You will have a lot of left-overs that hopefully you will some day eat .
To further complicate this problem
is the reality of shopping. Unless you are fortunate enough to have a store where you can buy food in single serving sizes including herbs and spices you will wind up wasting a lot of food.
The reason that single people wind up eating in restaurants is not that they can't cook ; it's just that after all is said and done it's simply not worth it to do so.
2007-07-15 12:12:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
cook meal as it is then freeze whats left over 4 anther day
2007-07-15 12:49:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to foodgeeks.com, they have many recipes, and a little box on the side where you can put how many servings you want, and it adjusts the ingredient quantities on the recipe!
2007-07-15 12:31:56 · answer #4 · answered by daddius42 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello food lover...
have you checked out some of Charlie Trotters books, their amazing...http://topchefs.chef2chef.net/recipes/trotter/
They go for about $98 each but are worth it.
Here are some sites for good recipes...
http://allrecipes.com/
http://www.foodtv.ca/
2007-07-15 11:39:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can get some of my recipes from my site
2007-07-15 11:41:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey!
In additon to allrecipes.com try out these to which have some specific tips for cooking for one:
http://www.bhg.com/bhg/category.jsp?categoryid=/templatedata/bhg/category/data/MenusAndMealPlanning_CookingForOne.xml
http://www.7cblogs.com/cooking/
http://homecooking.about.com/library/archive/blmisc73.htm
Here are a list of books on amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=stripbooks&field-keywords=cooking%20for%20one&results-process=default&dispatch=search/ref=pd_sl_aw_tops-1_stripbooks_4230530_2&results-process=default
Good luck and bon appetit!
2007-07-15 11:35:24 · answer #7 · answered by zz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Delia Smith - "Cooking for one"
2007-07-16 02:23:22 · answer #8 · answered by bec 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
believe it or not foodtv.com has some great tried and tested recipes.
2007-07-15 11:30:09 · answer #9 · answered by Mark B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
www.allrecipes.com
You can adjust the recipe down to just one serving and it will calculate everything for you!
2007-07-15 11:27:55 · answer #10 · answered by Kat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋