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Solo Food: 72 recipes for you alone
Janneke Vreugdenhil
‘Inspires you to spoil yourself.’ – Claudia Roden“Cooking for yourself is, I know now, nothing more or less than an exercise in loving yourself.”Solo Food is the first cookbook that celebrates cooking for yourself.Many people love to spend hours in the kitchen for their family or friends, but eat a pizza in front of the TV if they’re alone. Janneke Vreugdenhil shows that cooking without the other mouths to feed can be extremely satisfying. You don’t need to take anyone else’s tastes into account; you and you alone know exactly how long you like your steak to be cooked and you can go ahead and enjoy that delicious pasta with prawns and smoked whiskey tomato sauce.Solo Food is an exciting and personal, inspirational cookbook with 72 recipes that you’ll love putting on the table.
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HQ
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First published in the Netherlands by Uitgeverij Podium 2016
First published in Great Britain by HQ
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2017
Copyright © Janneke Vreugdenhil 2017
English translation © Colleen Higgins 2017
Janneke Vreugdenhil asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
Hardback ISBN 978-0-00-825667-8
Ebook Edition © November 2017 ISBN: 9780008256685
Version 2017-11-30
Photographs by Floortje van Essen-Ingen Housz
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DEDICATION (#ulink_a26b3b65-6ac0-57d8-9d42-2be8759e8f55)
For me, myself and I
CONTENTS
Cover (#uce8dbed4-e40a-5ad4-accf-cb03def446d9)
Title Page (#u433fef50-b5dc-561c-a35c-ea6da8008729)
Copyright (#ulink_cb963772-e404-5204-8e01-a74435156ed0)
Dedication (#ulink_dd876ef0-402b-57d4-9e6c-c45f80e2e67b)
Introduction (#ulink_489ab47f-08cc-5d5b-8b14-d9b1e8b22bd8)
7 tips for the solo chef
Your very own golden pantry
QUICK FIX
A kind of pisto Manchego
Spicy lamb pittas with hummus & garlicky yoghurt
Miso soup with noodles, shiitake mushrooms, spinach & an egg
Ridiculously easy spaghetti caprese
Frittata with red onion, baby kale & goat’s cheese
Griddled white tuna with cucumber, avocado & ginger salad
Tagliatelle with prawns & smoky whisky–tomato sauce
Lemon couscous with salmon & cherry tomatoes
Salad of butter beans, tinned tuna & shaved fennel
Good old steak sandwich
SMART COOKING
Baked sweet potato with olives, feta & chilli
Sweet potato soup with coconut & fresh coriander
Soft polenta with mushrooms & spinach
Polenta pizza with blistered cherry tomatoes & anchovies
Mash with baby kale & chorizo
Patatas a lo pobre
Warm lentil salad with grilled goat’s cheese
Spicy lentil soup with yoghurt & rocket
Cod in ginger–tomato sauce with gremolata & rice
Best-ever fried rice
Chinese egg noodles with steak & oyster sauce
Cold noodle salad with cucumber & sashimi salmon
NETFLIX DINNER
Quinotto with fennel, almonds & avocado
Gnocchi with broad beans, brown butter & crispy sage
Quick aubergine & lamb curry with warm naan
Pasta aglio olio my way
Green curry with chicken & peas
Warm salad of baby potatoes & peppered mackerel
Spaghetti with cherry tomatoes, nutmeg & ricotta
Orecchiette with Tenderstem broccoli, anchovies & fennel seed
Courgette soup with tarragon
Bowl of rice with Chinesey vegetables
FREEZE YOUR FAVOURITES
Chilli con everything
All-round chicken soup
Comforting little casseroles
Roasted squash & carrot soup
Pasta sauce with fresh sausage & fennel seed
Pork loin stewed with red wine & bay leaves
Marcella’s sugo
Pesto at your fingertips
Ratatouille
Surinamese masala chicken
Basic nasi goreng (Indonesian fried rice)
CLASSICS FOR ONE
Steak Béarnaise with chips & salad
Sea bass in a salt crust
Cheat’s pizza Margherita
Solo chicken with rosemary & Roseval potatoes
Cassoulet
10-minute pho
Caesar salad with crispy pancetta & avocado
Lamb chops with red wine & thyme sauce & green beans
Steak tartare
Risotto ai funghi
Too-good-to-share cheese fondue
BE SWEET TO YOURSELF
Blackberry mess
Instant mango–coconut ice cream
Lemon mug cake
Warm apple tartlet with vanilla ice cream
Coffee–ricotta parfait
La mousse au chocolat pour toi
Rosemary–honey figs with Gorgonzola
A fantastic raspberry dessert
Pear–yoghurt swirl
Tiramisu for one, please!
