7 Secret Joys of Cooking for Yourself (and Only Yourself)

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7 Secret Joys of Cooking for Yourself (and Only Yourself)
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Single and ready to… cook a beautiful solo lamb chop dinner.

complaining about washing all the dishes. Cooking was how I'd shown my love, and with my love gone, well, I just didn't want to do it. I didn't even really knowI'm not about to tell you that learning to cook for one taught me to love myself better. Nor am I about to tell you that I am now a pro at cooking for one after only two years of doing it, because that's not true either.

I hope that someday I will have a partner again, and eventually a house full of hungry children to feed. But for now it's just me, a cook who has discovered seven secret joys and advantages of cooking for one, and is enjoying it while I can.With no one else's appetite to worry about, I cook and eat my meals whenever I'm hungry for them. Sometimes I don't eat dinner at all. Sometimes I eat it at 11pm. I'm a grownup who lives alone—I can eat whenever I want.

Scallops for the whole family might break the bank, but scallops just for me is a treat I can afford.When I'm grocery shopping for just myself, I splurge on high-quality ingredients, because I only have to buy a little bit. I buy a single pristine lamb chop, or four gorgeous scallops, or a small sliver of special aged gouda, and it never adds up to much. And when I buy an3.

Cooking for one is by nature simpler and faster than cooking for a crowd, because you're making less food. And with no one to impress, that food tends to be a little simpler and a little more pure. I'm not going to bake a batch of

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