Who would have thought that this bright and happy looking dish, Vegetarian - Fried noodles with colorful vegetables, was made from leftover vegetables?
The writer says, “It is depressing cooking for one because there is always too much foods left. So, I boiled a packet of instant noodles and stir fry it with my left over vegetables from last night dinner.”
This was their delicious result.
Amy’s Table: Food for Families & Friends“Cooking for One” class at EQ
Radio and TV culinary and lifestyle expert, Amy Tobin of Amy’s Table answers a “Cooking for One” Question from Listener, saying she’s “getting more and more requests for “cooking for one” info.”
She offers a few general cooking for one tips in that post, but more importantly, says to “keep an eye out for a “Cooking for One” class at EQ this summer.”
Amy’s Table - videos and recipes for cooking and lifestyle enthusiasts
There you can watch videos of Amy’s shows and download recipes.
The Pioneer Woman Cooks!
Certainly not a specifically Cooking for One entry (the quantity of these Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes, for instance was more like enough to feed an army - but then when things look that good, you probably could eat that much of it), but the The Pioneer Woman Cooks! (Via: Plains Girl who was Cooking for One (many times over), has to be the most mouthwateringly tempting food blog I have seen.
I know it’s all a matter of taste, but I love retro look and Ree’s sense of humor, saying “I’m a desperate housewife. I live in the country.” Living way beyond the limits of civilization myself, I have some concept of what she means. 
Vegan Cooking For One
Not a lot there at the moment (then I know how difficult it can be finding the time to get these things off the ground), but new blog Vegan Cooking For One, sounds promising for those who want single portion meals, “safe for vegans.”
Dinner by spreadsheet
Slashfood point to an idea: Scott Murphy’s dinner system, Dinner by spreadsheet, which, says the article in Philadelphia Inquirer’s Food Section, “Falling back on the organization from a career in the military, he entered all the recipes and ingredients onto a computerized spreadsheet.”
Well, I’ll admit to being able to get organized enough to plan meals for a month, as I explained back last May, but just how organized (some might say anal) you want to be, depends entirely on your personality. I do know that if you can muster up the discipline then you can not only save yourself from the boring repetition, but you will also save time, money and resources.
More specifically, for those cooking for one, this level of organization means you will only buy what you need and use all of what you buy, without feeling that you are always eating the same thing, or a bunch of leftovers.
More leftover links ….
Whilst I may not have had time to blog them, I have been saving links that looked tasty or interesting (if you can’t wait, you’ll find new additions under cooking in my del.icio.us account). Here’s a selection of dishes I fancied:
“Cooking for One” classes? Sign me up! If only there was an EQ in Baltimore, MD.
Well, it’s a lot closer to you there than it is to me here in the Canary Islands.
Yes, I know “so close, but yet so far” can often seem a lot worse, but hopefully, those will also become available as online audio or video.