Cooking for one

[finster]

Does anyone know any good cookbooks for websites related to cooking for one person? I love to cook but I hate eating leftovers for a week.

[small h]

I've had this book for a while and haven't really given it the attention it deserves, but I'm going to recommend it anyway.

http://www.amazon.com/Alone-Kitchen-E...

I cook for myself the majority of the time, as my spousal equivalent and I eat different things. I've never had much trouble adjusting recipes to serve one instead of four or six.

[eight_inch_pestle]

I know this sounds painfully obvious, but don't forget that most recipes can be halved or quartered, that butchers will cut you single-rib roasts, and that cake batter can be poured into muffin tins. Lots of little stuff like that.

[finster]

Thank you both so much! Cooking for one can be really boring.

[Harters]

Been using recipes from this one for 20 years:

http://www.amazon.com/Delia-Smiths-On...

[girleatseverything]

i really like the Pleasures of Cooking for one by Judith Jones. i actually bought it for my grandmom one year and liked it so much i went out and bought myself a copy.

[The Dairy Queen]

Here are some great threads for you:

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/652147#5027466

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/5574...

Happy Cooking!

~TDQ