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Title: Going Solo in the Kitchen
ISBN: 0375703934
Author:
Jane Doerfer
Publicate Date: 1998-08-25
Publish: 1998-08-25
List Price: $16.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: Thanks!
Looking forward to trying the recipes in this book. Thanks for the timely shipment. Great doing business with you.
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2: excellent cookbook...for most singles
I've always disliked cooking, but I finally got fed up with warming up frozen dinners and eating take-out. It was too expensive, unhealthy, and didn't even taste that great. I wanted home-made food. So I bit the bullet and started cooking. I was pleased to find that, at last, the publishing industry has seen the need to cater (heh) to single folks--suddenly, I didn't have to worry about preparing an entree that would feed five people.
Overall I've been very pleased with this cookbook. It suits my needs almost perfectly, although I can see how it would miss some audiences: some of the recipes do require you to keep expensive, perishable ingredients on hand, and some do take a little longer to prepare than the book suggests. But I pick and choose, and I'm pretty good about figuring out which recipes I can handle (like I said, I'm a novice) and which ones are still beyond me. The ones that work, work really well. Suddenly I don't feel like a moron in front of a stove, and I've actually started to look forward to grocery shopping and cooking so I can try new things.
I wish the book had better nutritional information about the recipes, and some more precise instructions on food preparation ("Heat the oil in the skillet and add the meat"? What heat level should I use before everything turns into smoke and char? I'm new at this!). But overall, I'm very pleased. I highly recommend this book to single cooks who aren't exactly geniuses in the kitchen, and who don't want to spend hours fixing dinner, but who want home-made food that's not all out of a can. Trust me: if I can cook from this book, anybody can.
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3: Just what I was looking for
Not only does the book have reasonable and tasty recipes, but it addresses shopping and storage issues that I've been dealing for quite some time. There are great suggestions on storage and leftovers. I highly recomment it and am buying a 2nd book for my girlfriend as a house warming gift.
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4: Too many ingredients, steps---and too much final product.
I bought this disappointing book after I was impressed by the "Serves One" cookbook. This cookbook has no helpful pictures, and there was also quite a lack of meat-free meals. I made the turkey meatball recipe, and it took A LOT of ingredients, a lot more time than she said it would take, and it made about 4 meals worth of food. And then I still had to come up with side dishes. Furthermore, when you're eating alone, you might not want to have to make 3 separate dishes just to cull a meal out of the cookbook. I like more all-inclusive meals when I'm alone, because I'm also the one doing the dishes and spending my whole night in the kitchen. Once I decided I had no use for this cookbook, I tried to give it away, but sadly, my single friend GAVE IT BACK!
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5: Thank you!!
All of the positive reviews are exactly right. This cookbook is fantastic: easy recipes, easy to find ingredients, food that tastes good, and excellent suggestions for how to put together a meal, use leftovers, store food, reduce waste.
I love it and just wanted to thank Jane Doerfer for her ideas. I now look forward to cooking for myself and trying out new ideas.
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