Product Description

At last, a practical and persuasive cookbook for anyone living alone--with more than 350 delicious recipes for all occasions--filled with money-saving tips and shortcuts. Here is food that will lure the reluctant single back into the kitchen. Featured in Southern Living magazine.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #84486 in Books
• Published on: 1998-08-25
• Released on: 1998-08-25
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 8.40" h x .95" w x 6.16" l, 1.00 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

From Amazon.com
Just because you are your household, don't assume eating solo limits you to having pizza, pancakes, or meat loaf in restaurants; buying them already prepared; or having to file extra portions in the freezer or the dustbin. As Jane Doerfer proves in Going Solo in the Kitchen, with no more effort than when cooking for two or more, one person can eat well and dine beautifully.

Doerfer's main strategies are to use fresh ingredients and to make friends with supermarket staff who can accommodate her needs in the land of large families. She gives detailed advice on storing foods--cooked chicken, for example, tastes better and has better texture when stored in liquid (like a sauce or broth), while potato salads and other prepared dishes keep better longer when left unsalted until just before serving.

Solo cooks do have advantages: you can eat what you want, as often as you want it, and the cost of a steak or lobster dinner is only for one.

Doerfer offers variations for recycling in case of leftovers. Her description of how to cut up a whole chicken is graphically clear (see "Chicken Management") and will save you money.

The recipes and techniques Doerfer offers will brighten the lives of solitary diners who love variety, good food, and home cooking. She provides recipes for everything you might want, from Chicken Noodle Soup to elegant Halibut with Asparagus, Cream Scones, perfectly cooked rice, and fresh, hot berry pie, made in just the right way for one. --Dana Jacobi

From Library Journal
Doerfer, who publishes a travel newsletter called Going Solo, also runs Going Solo in the Kitchen, a cooking school for cooks on their own. She provides more than 300 single-serving recipes along with the tricks and strategies she has devised to make cooking for oneself appealing, efficient, and economical. Many of the recipes include two or more variations, and there are ideas for leftovers as well. Just about all are quick and simple to prepare, and they are also tempting enough to lure "solos" used to depending on takeout or microwave dinners into the kitchen for some real food. Recommended.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
The advice here is clearly based on personal experience, with a view of meal preparation as a comfort at the end of a workday rather than as an unpleasant chore. Doerfer's counsel extends to shopping tips and good habits for food storage. Plenty of fresh vegetable, poultry, seafood, meat, and soup and pasta dishes are featured, and included among numerous salad options are ethnic offerings, such as tabbouleh, guacamole, and couscous. Often, simple variations for reducing cooking time and enhancing a dish are noted--grating zucchini before saute{‚}eing, for instance. Single cooks should find Doerfer's enthusiasm contagious and the book's entire presentation inviting, full as it is of encouraging, practical suggestions for anyone wishing to escape from the trap of convenience foods. Alice Joyce