Simply Single
No Fuss Recipes For Single Cooks.
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Nowadays a great many people are living on their own, whether by circumstance or choice. It is far more difficult to whip up enthusiasm to cook appetising meals for oneself, and so often one feels a tin of soup or a boiled egg will do. With the minimum of forward planning a dip into this book will encourage the single occupant of the kitchen to enjoy varied, nourishing, and above all simple meals for one.
Lots of the recipes in this book can be doubled or trebled and then frozen in individual packs. Where this can be done, the recipe is clearly marked with a star sign, for example " * ".
Do not ever feel, when cooking for one, that you cannot have a good Roast, be it Poultry or Meat. There are so many wonderful dishes that can be created after you have tucked into your Sunday lunch with all the trimmings; Especially if you buy a reasonable size joint, which in any case is more economical in the long run, and a lot easier to cook in the first place. A whole section is devoted to "The Sunday Roast" and to make it simple the “leftover” recipes are grouped under the original ingredient; therefore ideas for using chicken, for instance, are all under the Heading “Chicken” and so on.
All recipes are kept to the minimum of ingredients. The instructions are in a step by step format, and are extremely simple to follow.
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About the Book
Simply Single contains no fuss recipes for those cooks on their own, and who find themselves opening a tin of soup or boiling an egg yet again. This book will tempt even the most reluctant lone cook to produce delicious meals with the very minimum of effort and a few easily obtainable ingredients. A Store Cupboard List and a section on tips to help preparation, together with a blank page for Notes at the end of each Chapter will make this an invaluable addition to every kitchen. The recipes are incredibly easy to follow, as step by step instructions are numbered in order of procedure, and all ingredients are readily obtainable.
About the Author
Born in 1924 Pamela Le Bailly spent an idyllic childhood in Devonshire, riding her pony over the hills of Dartmoor and learning a lot of self-reliance.
After Wartime service in the W.R.N.S. including three years in South Africa, she married and followed her Naval husband round the world, producing three daughters and living in twenty-one homes. Now settled in her beloved West Country she spent some years perfecting her chosen career of Pressed Flower Artist, using her garden to grow the necessary flowers and foliage for her work. However, for their Diamond Wedding Anniversary her husband gave her a computer. With increasing Arthritis writing cookery books has taken over from pressing flowers, much encouraged by her daughters.
Following on from her first book “Second Time Around” on using up leftovers, and drawing on her experience of living alone while her husband was at sea, Pamela’s second book “Simply Single” is full of easy to follow recipes for one person.