Smart Tips For Cooking For One
I don’t know how many times, I’ve come home from a hard day at work and struggled to cook for one. It is bloody hard to find recipes with the right ingredients to feed only one person, I mean how many times has Mc Donald’s been an option. However, with the Internet boom and shows like Biggest Loser, we are seeing more and more recipe books that are dedicated to the act of cooking for one.’
Why You Are Cooking For One
Divorce and the death of spouses or grown children leaving for college are just some of the reasons that someone accustomed to cooking for more than one would suddenly need to learn how to adjust all the cooking practices utilized before into a streamlined plan of cooking that is more efficient for one person creating less waste.
Learn New Cooking Tricks
The mission, should you choose to accept it, is to make cooking for one a challenge rather than a trial. Use this opportunity to try new and exciting cuisines. Perhaps one of the greatest things about cooking for one is the fact that it isn’t quite as expensive as cooking for two. This means that you have a little more money in the grocery budget with which to plan and prepare your meals.
Learn To Freeze
One thing you may want to keep in mind, however, is that when cooking for one if you prepare foods that are freezable. It may save more time (and in the end money) if you cook the full 2-4 servings that most recipes call for and freeze the leftovers in single-serving portions for a later point in time.
This leaves you with a freezer full of foods for those nights when the thought of cooking just seems beyond your capabilities. This also leaves you with doing the work once and enjoying the fruits of your efforts many times over. This is a great position to be in if you ask me.
Buy a Recipe Book
We are finding more and more recipes and cookbooks that are designed around the concept of eating for one. No matter what situation placed you in the position of cooking for one.
There is no reason that you shouldn’t enjoy great food that is exciting and pleasant simply because you are dining alone. You can enjoy a fabulous meal with a glass of wine and great music whether you are cooking for one or one hundred.
You Are What You Eat
Remember you are what you eat. If you relegate yourself to boring meals that lack excitement and spice that is what you will become.
If you decide to try new and exciting dishes with every meal you prepare when cooking for one. It can show you the way to embracing life in other areas as well. While we should not live to eat, we should also not limit ourselves to eating to live. Enjoy the foods you prepare whether the portions are large or small in size.
If you do not want to invest heavily in cookbooks that relate to cooking for one, it is quite possible that your local public library will have a few from which you can find some excellent recipes tips and resources. You can even experiment with cooking new recipes. By checking out their selection of exotic food cookbooks in order to spice things up a bit.
You never know what treasures you may discover on the shelves or your local library. You may even find local resources on classes that centre on the idea of cooking for one. But if you don’t have success at the library just search online and take your pick from thousands of recipes.
