can anyone recommend a cookery book for uni student?

[ssd]

who doesn't really like to cook and will be studying abroad?

DS has Nosh for Students too. Really good, easy recipes. There is a vegetarian version and two others in the series. We use it at home in the holidays too for simple recipes.

I liked Sam Stern, and I also really like ministry of food - I’ve had some great recipes from there. I have more than an entire shelf of books though...

Any super simple vegan offerings? Dd has taken zero interest in learning from me and is out at work all the time this summer. I used to have vegetarian ones back in the day but they are all loaded with cheese and eggs - don’t know why is was such a big deal being vegetarian back then, that’s nothing compared to what I try to cope with now with my fuss-arse family, one vegan, 2 with (different) allergies, and just plain fussy.

Another vote for Delia Smith, I hate her recipes personally but they are so precise it is hard to go wrong. There is an old book of hers, 'One is fun' that gives recipes for an individual, most recipe books have portions for 4.

I gave my copy to a VI form student who was moving from foster care to her own flat age 16.

When ds has deigned to share the output from "5 Ingredients" had been good NB: There is an introduction where he also says you need 5 store cupboard ingredients (red wine vinegar, Extra Virgin Olive oil and 3 others) but ds refuses to acknowledge that and insists on just the 5 ingredients in the recipe

The chicken wings in a sticky teriyaki sauce were lovely (once I'd managed to find chicken wings, which was surprisingly difficult : found finally in a Chinese supermarket where I got 8 for the princely sum of 98p )

Sounds good pretty bird...think I will have to treat myself (to the book and the wings!)

They will live on frozen meals...

In the summer before they started uni I taught both of mine to cook half a dozen basic meals they enjoyed eating at home - spag bol, chilli, beef stews, goulash etc.

I then typed up the recipes and they took them with them. They were well used. DC2 became vegetarian soon after starting uni and I adapted many of the recipes to veggie.
I also took them shopping around a supermarket and showed them how to choose the best value and freshest food. It sounds blindingly obvious but they both learnt from it.
DC1 ended up in halls with a group who shared cooking and he gradually became quite adventurous. DC2 didn't bother much and lived on pasta.

They were both given "student" cook books which as far as I can see were never opened....

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If you like wings make a marinade with orange juice, honey, salt, pepper, garlic, ginger and soy sauce.

Leave the wings in it overnight and bung in the oven for 30 mins.

@Sashh - that sounds nice, can you give rough proportions?

yes that sounds amazing, I love chicken wings but usually only eat ones that are pre-made!

thanks for all replies

not sure if I should buy him one as don't really know if the ingredients will be available in Sweden...

...it's a difficult one...

I lived on roasted chicken wings and sausagemeat stuffing when I was a student. I occasionally pushed the boat out and had corned beef hash.

Ok sticky chicken wings. I wrote it down for someone

8 Chicken wings
4 cloves of garlic
1 piece of root ginger, about an inch square
juice of one orange (or 2 lemons)
55 ml soy sauce
55 ml or runny honey
1 teaspoon of chilli powder
salt and pepper

Chop the wings in three and throw away the tips (or use to make stock)

Peel anything that needs peeling, crush/chop anything that needs crushing or chipping and juice the fruit.

Add all crushed, chopped,ingredients to the liquid ingredients to make a marinade.

Bake in a hot oven for 30mins - it also BBQs really well.

Play around with the quantities, I love garlic but you might want to use less, or add a bit of cumin.

ssd

There may not be all the ingredients available but the basics, bread, meat, cheese, milk will be available I'm sure.

Another big vote for ‘A Girl Called Jack’ lots of great budget recipes, and a good proportion of them vegan. I use this book a lot, as does student DS.

I was thinking about this the other day. When I went to uni my mum bought me a cheap student cookbook with recipes for food we never really ate at home in it. What would've been great would've been if she'd written down some recipes of the stuff we ate at home (I didn't really help with cooking at home, whole other subject!). This would then have been stuff we knew I liked, and felt familiar. I plan to do this for my own children.

Appreciate if in another country then finding the ingredients could be tricky, but you could list potential substitutions for them.

Bunloaf That's exactly what I did for my DC. They used those recipes but never used any of the cookery books they were given.
To be honest I don't use cookery books any more, you can find anything you want to cook online.

ssd uni in Sweden sounds fabulous and if he doesn't like to cook I am sure he can still buy ready meals and junk in Sweden!

yes, I was thinking of writing down some of the recipes I use at home, just hope he can find the ingredients there!

Both mine took student cookbooks with them, but only ever look on-line when they want recipes. I've seen all their cookbooks on the 'give to charity shop' piles.......

Have a look at www.mobkitchen.co.uk/

They do short videos of food preparation for students, publish their recipes on their web sites and the recipes are always made with fresh ingredients and carefully budgeted. They have a cookery book launching any moment. They produce new videos constantly and can be followed on instagram for day by day ideas and nudges.

It is all surprisingly good.

I have pre-ordered the book for DS but I expect he will just use the online recipes.

Maybe put some "esoteric" ingredients like Worcestershire Sauce or Heinz Tomato Ketchup into his suitcase

Mob kitchen is about to come as a cookbook, follow them on Facebook, very young and studenty but nice looking food. I liked 5 ingredients too and ministry of food is good - but none are worth having if he is happy to eat cheap pizzas for every meal like my ds was.