Need help cooking for one.

JMac_2

I can highly recommend Delia Smith's "How to Cook" books - they have very simple recipes (book 1 includes how to poach an egg, or cook spuds, for instance! - and you can get them on the internet second-hand. (Try Amazon's used and new sections).

I live alone, too - and it's not all bad! I never argue with myself over what to watch on the telly, for instance, or over what I fancy to eat!!

Good luck.

Stephen_Leak

Benthosboy wrote: »

Err, is it me or have I lost something I had a lot of computery gobbledygook and now that's gone.Incidentally, that's exactly where my username comes from, and I'm a diver to boot :cool: Joint fave film of all time, with Aliens. Love the "Russian water tentacle" :eek:

For some strange reason (probably Office 2007) all the formatting information copied across as well as the text of the recipe. You took the quote after I "cut" it to another program to sort it out.

I've had a thought about the fish for the recipe. If you are getting it from a proper fishmonger, it might be worth asking him for 250g or 350g of "odds and ends", which are too small to sell on their own. You should get them for a better price, it saves waste and means that the result should be unique.

sillyvixen

ceridwen wrote: »

Also echoing other posters comments about student cookbooks - ideal for someone in your circumstances. Cas Clarke is my favourite cookbook writer and I find all her recipes easy and interesting.
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i agree cas clarke is one of my favorite cookbooks - cheap, easy & foolproof - most of her recipes in the student versions serve one (easy to double, treble or even quadruple if necessary) but cheap single portions may be best for you seeing as you are proberbly without freezing facillities. if you can get these books through your local libary the recipes are well worth trying and copying favorites into a book:j