The Better
Homes and Gardens Meals for One or Two cookbook is a thin hardcover
from 1978. It has 87 pages or so of
recipes (the cover states over 190 recipes) and full-color photos, and about 5
closely packed pages of tips and techniques in the back.
I had a hard
time finding recipes I wanted to make…many of them are what I would consider “entertaining
guests” type recipes from the 70’s…not something I would want to cook regularly
for just one or two people. They are
like many magazine recipes today, they try too hard to be sort of “Faux-gourmet”
with 12 to 18 items in the ingredient list, often something I don’t keep in my
pantry.
The best
idea for small-scale cooking was the idea of buying a cut of meat, like beef
sirloin or boneless pork cut into cubes, each with 3 or 4 recipes that use the
cooked meat. Only problem for me, I
didn’t think I wanted to make the recipes, that added 9 or 10 more ingredients,
and could think of recipes that I already have I would make with the thawed
cooked meat and I often do.
If recipes
like a Sproutburger with bean sprouts and wheat germ added, or lots of fruit
sauces or curry sauces on your meat appeal to you, this may be your book.
I agree. Too many ingredients.
ReplyDeleteKeep it simple.