daemon@decwrl.UUCP (The devil himself) (10/25/85)
I do more than enough higher mathematics at work and am tired of bringing it home with me :-). Looking for suggestions for cookbooks with recipies small enough for single person dining without trying to divide everything by 6 (or what- ever, they just don't make 1/16th teaspoons). Any help????
wildbill@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (William J. Laubenheimer) (10/26/85)
Regarding suggestions for small recipes:
I have a copy of \\The Betty Crocker Dinner-for-Two Cookbook// (Golden Press),
which is fine if you like Betty Crocker-type food (i.e., don't expect too
many gourmet items or unusual recipes, do expect some recipes including
prepared items such as canned or frozen products or mixes of various sorts),
and also contains some helpful hints about such things as how to Have Your
Cake and Eat It (not all at once) Too and what to do with five pounds of
leftover roast beef. To go from Dinner for Two to dinner for one, you can
either cut the recipe in half, or just go ahead and make the full recipe,
eating the rest the next day for lunch or dinner.
Another easy solution, particularly if you own a microwave oven, can be
found in the section of general-purpose cookbooks which deals with
freezing prepared foods. Just make a normal-sized batch of anything which
you think will freeze well, divide it up into individual servings, stick
it into an appropriate bag, and freeze it. Come dinner time, just pull
out what you want, stick it in the microwave, and bring it back to life.
*Much* better than your average TV dinner.
One final idea - most Chinese cookbooks present recipes which make a dish
that "serves 4" in the same way a dish at a Chinese restaurant "serves 4" -
if you order 4 such dishes, everybody gets enough. In other words, it
provides enough food for 1 person, and usually gets split 4 ways. Also, it's
easy to learn and fun to do. If you haven't had any experience, take a
course or pick up a good how-to book, and open your senses to another
interesting realm of food.
A veteran of seven years' experience in cooking for 1, and *definitely*
not starving,
Bill Laubenheimer
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