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    Cooking 4 One: Living Alone, #2
    Cooking 4 One: Living Alone, #2
    Cooking 4 One: Living Alone, #2
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    Cooking 4 One: Living Alone, #2

    By Peter Mulraney

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    Living on your own? Sick of eating takeaways?

    This little book will help you master the art of feeding yourself.

    Cooking 4 One is a basic, no-frills cookbook. There are no intimidating pictures. There are no fancy recipes you need a degree in food science to understand. The focus is on cooking for yourself, so the instructions are about how you do it for one.

    If you've never cooked before, take comfort in the knowledge that if you can boil a pan of water on a cooktop, you already possess one of the main skills required for success in the kitchen.

    Cooking 4 One covers buying and storing food, and preparing meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

    It has sample menus to help you plan your meals and a section on entertaining - for when you've mastered the basics.

    Written by a fellow traveller, who unexpectedly found himself on his own, this little book dispels the myth that cooking is complicated.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeter Mulraney
    Release dateJul 19, 2014
    ISBN9780992426958
    Cooking 4 One: Living Alone, #2
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    Peter Mulraney

    Peter grew up in country South Australia, before going to Adelaide to complete high school and attend university. While he was studying in the city, he met an Italian girl and forgot to go home. Now he's married and has two grown children. He worked as a teacher, an insurance agent, a banker and a public servant. Now, he gets to write every day instead. He is the author of the Inspector West and Stella Bruno Investigates crime series; the Living Alone series, for men who find themselves alone at the end of a long term relationship; and the Everyday Business Skills series for people looking to take advantage of his knowledge and skills. As a mystic, he has written several books which explores some of life's deeper questions, including Sharing the Journey: Reflections of a Reluctant Mystic, and My Life is My Responsibility: Insights for Conscious Living.

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      Cooking 4 One - Peter Mulraney

      Cooking 4 One

      Cooking 4 One

      An introduction to cooking for men who find themselves living alone.

      Peter Mulraney

      Copyright © 2014 Peter Mulraney

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      ISBN: 978-0-9924269-5-8

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      Contents

      Introduction

      Some basic stuff

      Breakfast

      Lunch

      Dinner

      Sample menus

      Entertaining

      Summary

      A note from Peter

      Also by Peter Mulraney

      Introduction

      This is a basic cookbook written with the intention of helping you master feeding yourself, now that you’re the one who has to do the cooking.

      There are no intimidating pictures of perfectly prepared meals.

      In fact, there is nothing fancy in this book at all.

      This cookbook tells you how to cook the meals I discovered I could cook for myself, without having to decipher the secret language of all the fancy cookbooks on the shelf in the kitchen or available in bookstores or online.

      When you look inside most cookbooks, the first thing you notice, after the glossy pictures, is that all the recipes (that’s the fancy word for cooking instructions) are for preparing meals for two or more people. Not much help if you only want to cook for yourself, and you haven’t done much of that before.

      In this cookbook you’ll find instructions for cooking 4 one.

      For convenience, I’ve grouped the meals under the headings of breakfast, lunch and dinner, but you can eat any meal at any sitting. It’s your life. When you’re living alone, if you want to eat a breakfast meal for dinner or vice versa, there’s no-one there to complain or tell you to do otherwise.

      Some meals could be listed under more than one heading. I’ve chosen the heading that makes sense to me.

      Where possible, I focus on process so that you don’t have to wade through a lot of repetition of the same instructions under different meal headings. For example, I look at pan frying (a process) instead of listing separate instructions for cooking steak, pork, sausages, chicken and fish.

      If you’ve never cooked before, take comfort in the knowledge that if you can boil a pan of water on a cooktop, you already have one of the main skills required for success in the kitchen.

      You also have a lot of other skills, like being able to read instructions and measure things, that will come in handy. If you’re good at project management, some of those skills can be transferred to the kitchen as well.

      The first part of the book covers buying and storing food, and a few other basic instructions I think you’ll find helpful.

      Towards the end of the book, I’ve included a chapter on entertaining, for those of you who want to cook a meal to share with friends - after you have the basics under the belt.

      When you’ve mastered the basic cooking skills in this book, I encourage you to venture into some of those fancy cookbooks with the glossy pictures - they won’t seem so intimidating once you have an idea of how this cooking thing works.

      Disclaimer: I am not a chef or a nutritionist - although plenty of men are. I’m simply a practitioner. At the time of writing, I’ve been cooking for myself for around five years, using the ideas you’ll find in this cookbook.

      Some basic stuff

      Buying food

      You probably know where to go to buy food: the supermarket, the butcher's, the baker's, the greengrocer's or fruit and veg shop. If your life has been anything like mine, you've probably been sent down to one or more of those places with a list at some point in your life.

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