Eating For One Just Got Awesome(er?)

There are many nights that I eat at home and am too lazy to cook something fancy, so I end up either eating like a 4-year-old (i.e. my lunch today consisting of an apple and a Jello Pudding cup) in 28-year-old portions OR I end up making enough food for 4 (i.e. grilling up a pound of chicken Monday night) and realizing 4 days later that I only ate it once.

SO! I'm excited to delve into this book, Alone in the Kitchen With an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone, which features 26 writers and their "secret meals they make for themselves when they are alone."



This might give you a taste:
"Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. People lie when you ask them what they eat when they are alone. A salad, they tell you. But when you persist, they confess to peanut butter and bacon sandwiches deep fried and eaten with hot sauce, or spaghetti with butter and grape jam." —Laurie Colwin, "Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant"

My Lean Pockets will be sad if I stray too far...maybe I'll start reading this AS I am eating a Lean Pocket, or a Jello, or a bag of Craisins. Then we can just all ease into higher-brow dinners.

Bon Appetit!
Pia The Pig