An introduction to cooking for men who find themselves living alone.
Living on your own? Sick of eating takeaways?
This little book will help you master the art of feeding yourself.
Cooking 4 One is a basic, no-frills cookbook. There are no intimidating pictures. There are no fancy recipes you need a degree in food science to understand. The focus is on cooking for yourself, so the instructions are about how you do it for one.
If you’ve never cooked before, take comfort in the knowledge that if you can boil a pan of water on a cooktop, you already possess one of the main skills required for success in the kitchen.
Cooking 4 One covers buying and storing food, and preparing meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
It has sample menus to help you plan your meals and a section on entertaining - for when you’ve mastered the basics.
Written by a fellow traveller, who unexpectedly found himself on his own, this little book dispels the myth that cooking is complicated.
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Excerpt
This is a basic cookbook written with the intention of helping you master feeding yourself, now that you’re the one who has to do the cooking.
There are no intimidating pictures of perfectly prepared meals.
In fact, there is nothing fancy in this book at all.
This cookbook tells you how to cook the meals I discovered I could cook for myself, without having to decipher the secret language of all the fancy cookbooks on the shelf in the kitchen or available in bookstores or online.
When you look inside most cookbooks, the first thing you notice, after the glossy pictures, is that all the recipes (that’s the fancy word for cooking instructions) are for preparing meals for two or more people. Not much help if you only want to cook for yourself, and you haven’t done much of that before.
In this cookbook you’ll find instructions for cooking 4 one.
For convenience, I’ve grouped the meals under the headings of breakfast, lunch and dinner, but you can eat any meal at any sitting. It’s your life. When you’re living alone, if you want to eat a breakfast meal for dinner or vice versa, there’s no-one there to complain or tell you to do otherwise.
Some meals could be listed under more than one heading. I’ve chosen the heading that makes sense to me.
Where possible, I focus on process so that you don’t have to wade through a lot of repetition of the same instructions under different meal headings. For example, I look at pan frying (a process) instead of listing separate instructions for cooking steak, pork, sausages, chicken and fish.
If you’ve never cooked before, take comfort in the knowledge that if you can boil a pan of water on a cooktop, you already have one of the main skills required for success in the kitchen.
You also have a lot of other skills, like being able to read instructions and measure things, that will come in handy. If you’re good at project management, some of those skills can be transferred to the kitchen as well.
My book is a collection of dialogues with award-winning chefs from various backgrounds and cultures, sharing their personal experiences of where and why food culture is where it is today.
