Cookbook for uni

[Summertimer]

When I headed off my mum gave me Cooking in a Bedsitter by Katherine Whitehorn and The Beginner’s Cookbook by Betty Falk.

Any recommendations for a modern equivalent?

Don't all say ‘just tell DC to look up recipes on the internet’ 🤣

Thanks all, I’ll check out the recommendations 😀

I’m pretty sure we have Eat by Nigel Slater. DH has reminded me he was given ‘One is Fun’ by Delia Smith which does cover boiling an egg. Heading for bookshelf …

I have prepared a selection of what DS calls ‘Mum’s classics’ with DS recently and typed the recipes out. Pasta is a theme as some of the favourites might be too sophisticated for uni. DS no stranger to the kitchen, although he concentrated on revision/school work for most of 13. Has practiced this summer and done well.

We already have all our family recipes in a shared folder in google drive so anyone including me or Dh can access those recipes if we are on a self catering holiday. Ds found he tweaked recipes whilst away at uni.

His advice is learn to zhuzh food too because something will say spicy and it is not spicy enough so what does he need to change it. He was chief taste tester at home for at least 2 years before he went to uni and I taught him to enhance the flavour. I love a soup from Aldi but I always grind some chilli flakes into it to give it some heat, I think it is a butternut squash one.

Also think pantry items so tinned stuff items, soup, chicken curry, stew, sometimes you don't want to cut up carrots and celery you just want some bread and a tin of stew and Ds cooked from scratch most of the time. Ds's most easy dinner after a 9 hour day, yes 8 hours of lecture/tutorial with an hour for lunch was stuffed pasta and a jar of pasta sauce. Luckily that was only one term but exhausting and also on a Friday.