DD is in her last year at school so, all being well, she will be going to Uni next autumn. This means at some point she is going to have to start cooking for herself regularly.
Now she is by no means useless in the kitchen. She has to get her own evening meal at least one night a week when she goes out early to her PT job and she is well used to getting her own lunches in the school holidays. However, I think her repertoire is fairly limited and I thought it might be nice to get her a good practical cookbook as a stocking filler this Christmas.
I noticed that there seem to be quite a lot of cookbooks now that claim to be for students. However, I just spent several minutes leafing through them and nearly all the main meals are to serve more than one. Many say they serve 4 or more. Now I suppose in some student kitchens they do all co-operate and cook together but that certainly wasn't my experience at Uni. Maybe once a week we would cook a meal together but the rest of the time we did our own thing. Bearing this in mind I would have expected a proper student cookbook to have lots of easy, economical main meals to serve one.
Does anyone know if such a thing exists?
(NB I do own a copy of Delia's "One is Fun" that I could give her but I imagine she might be put off by the title and I thought something with "Student" in the title would be more encouraging to her)
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5Foot5 · 14/11/2013 13:20
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