Serves One: Simple Meals to Savor When You're on Your Own

by Toni Lydecker

This new, completely revised edition retains the spirit of the original, a deft mix of the practical and sophisticated, presented with an engaging simplicity that will fill the beginner with confidence and warm the heart of a frazzled gourmet.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking

224 pages, Paperback

First published December 25, 2005

About the author

Toni Lydecker is a journalist and cookbook author who specializes in Italian regional cooking. Seafood alla Siciliana: Recipes and Stories from a Living Tradition (Lake Isle Press, 2009) explores one of the worlds great seafood traditions; it is for readers with an interest in regional Italian cooking and for the many people who would like to know more about preparing fish and other seafood in delicious ways. Toni is also the author of Serves One: Meals to Savor When Youre on Your Own (Lake Isle Press, 2005). Her articles on food and culinary travel have appeared in many magazines and online publications. She lives in New Yorks Hudson Valley and can be reached at www.tonilydecker.com."

Reviews

[Jen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I happened to see this cookbook on the shelf at the library and after reading it, had to buy it. There are several good, gourmet and simple recipes to keep someone who is only cooking for one (or sometimes two) from eating a poptart over the sink for dinner. Most of the ingredients you already have in your refrigerator or pantry (or at least I did) and are fairly simple to put together. I've only so far tried the Vegetarian Chipotle Chili and it was very flavorful, easy and satisfying and was enough for my son and I to eat with just a little bit left over to have with some tortilla chips later on for a snack. With a small amount of planning, perhaps I won't be settling for a spoon of peanut butter and a handful of raisins for that time I'm dining alone, and I might just have a meal worthy of sitting down at the table and pouring a glass of wine for.

[Carrie · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was disappointed in this book. For about a third of the recipies, she has to tell you how to find strange ingredients (go to the Asian or Mexican market). I'm sorry. That adds one more place I have to shop (where I don't know where anything is!) The other recipies had ingredients I don't keep on hand or weren't interesting.

[Amy]

Seems like it would be easy to increase these to serve 2!