Lovely cookbook, well presented. I often cook just for myself and usually resort to an omelet or leftovers. I got some nice ideas for other things I can do from this cookbook, which I borrowed from the library. I also enjoyed the author's tone, which is gentle, encouraging, and reassuring. I may buy myself a copy because I'd like to have the sauce and baking recipes, particularly.

her blog: http://judithjonescooks.com/

One of my favorite cookbooks ever. ( )

I thought I should check this out since I need to cook more instead of doing frozen when hubby is out of town so much. There were things I liked and disliked about the book. The good things were day 2 and day 3 recipes to handle the leftovers. The down side was several recipes were things that were more labor intensive than I wanted or used foods that I wouldn't normally buy. But hands down I think having soup recipes for one was the neatest thing in the book. I'm on the fence about getting my own copy, I might have to check it out again and actually use some of the recipes instead of just reading it. ( )

Even after subtracting all the veal and lamb dishes (I don't eat either) there were a lot of great recipes! Judith Jones clearly learned a lot from the authors she published (Julia Child, James Beard, etc) and her techniques are sound. Plus it's just nice to see recipes that don't feed 8- us single people don't want to eat leftovers 7 days in a row :) ( )