I’m in a cooking mood. I’m trying new recipes, trying to adapt old favorites in a healthy way, and seeing if certain ones can be frozen and later reheated for easy TV dinners.
But I don’t have anyone to [del]experiment on[/del] cook for.
It’s boring cooking for myself.
I need to go rent a family, or at least a husband who will eat things that don’t come in a box.
Sorry, that was pretty mundane and pointless.
Send me an email if you’d like my mailing address. You can overnight whatever you’d like. 
Nah, I’m closer! It will be cheaper to get it to me!
I had an idea once-upon-a-time to start a business called Rent-A-Husband. It seems like I spend a lot of my time fixing things for other people for free.
Sampling your cooking and providing positive feedback would be a service I would be happy to provide at a discount. Maybe I need to consider that idea again.
You both are awfully trusting that what I cook is any good!
Seriously, though. If it weren’t so expensive, I’d ship it anywhere just so I’d feel less pointless about it.
The next recipe: Individual macaroni and cheese. My ramekins are getting a workout.
When did you say you were flying out to LA again? 
You want me to make the food AND deliver it? Sheesh!
Other people have this problem too, right? I can’t be the only one who finds cooking for one depressing.
Almost – I want you to deliver yourself and THEN cook the food.
I’ll spring for the groceries if you spring for the flight.
I at least live in the same state as jsgoddess – and I have the same problem, because my wife is temporarily in Australia. However, I suspect she would not appreciate my sharing food with a goddess.
(I really enjoy my trips to Australia, because there I can cook for other people!)
Hey, babe, I’ve got a guest room and a new, hardly-used oven and everything!
Any time you want to try shit out you just come hang out at ol’ Zipper’s place. Our motto here is “any food that’s free is good.”
Heh-heh…Mr. K is the same way. “Kalhoun, when you’re at the grocery store, pick up some ice cream sammiches…and make sure they’re the really cheap ones. They gotta be crap or I don’t want them.”
You need to have a little group of people that do the Round Robin cooking thing. I had some work pals who did this. Once a month (or once a week? It was a lifetime ago) and we’d rotate turns to cook for the group. So fun and such good cooks! You can get really creative and your friends are your guinea pigs!
A classic case of Ulgo’s Law. You are not alone. I’ve gotten to the point that, most of the time, I don’t even eat dinner; and I pick up food for breakfast & lunch on the way into work. I like to cook, and I cook well, but after a few years there’s a definite “what’s the point?” feeling.
I did cook this weekend; but that’s actually pretty rare anymore, especially since, for some reason, many of the things I like to cook, and know how to cook, are scaled for at least a family of four (I did a fair bit of cooking while growing up) with leftovers. Worse, if I’m making spaghetti sauce, beef-noodle-vegetable stew, or chicken biryani, I get into the multiple quarts of end product range, and that’s a lot for one person to eat.
Washing up isn’t any fun, either.
Not alone. I live alone and thus eat an awful lot of stuff that is packaged. Or fast food.
Last week I cooked chili–enough for a small crowd, half of it is still in the freezer.
This weekend I cooked Squash Soup. Tasty–but it would have been so much more worth it if I’d had someone to sing my praises and maybe peel the squash for me.
I’m contemplating fixing lasagne–have all the ingredients–but I’m dreading the leftovers.
And yeah, I wish someone else would come wash up for me once in a while.
Oo oo me to. I love to cook but my hubby-to-be lives several states away.
Cooking for one is depressing - either you have the same thing for dinner 6 nights in a row or you eat it once then freeze the rest which seems pointless when it is certain dishes.
I don’t know how to cook for small numbers - when I was a kid we always had family over and when I was a student I would cook so others would do the dishes and/or buy groceries. I always had plenty of volunteers to come over and eat
Ooh, I’m going to tackle lasagne soon, but I’m going to do it in ramekins so they can be frozen.
Nope.
And there’s more effort involved in cooking for one - recipes are not made for single servings and food is not sold in single servings. It’s hard to go through all the work involved and just come out with one meal.
My best relationship started with those very words.
Yeah the one I like to cook for is in Boston 
I still cook in small batches on Sundays, well when I don’t have a stupid open house scheduled. But mostly I’m tired of cooking for one.
I love to cook. And yes, I am single.
I cook almost every night; leftovers are for the next day’s lunch. Leftovers beyond that are frozen and can be thawed out a few weeks later for lunch.
I do also half or quarter recipes, whenever possible.
Susan
jsgoddess, have you thought about contacting Meals on Wheels or Hospice? They might be overjoyed to have someone who is willing to cook a couple of extra meals to take to shut-ins/elderly/ill people.
Ya get karma points for that, ya’know.
Do goddesses need extra karma points?