1...2...Cook: Quick and Easy Meals for One or Two People [Paperback]

Donald Alexander (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 20, 2004

This book is intended for the single person, or couples, who are not of a culinary nature, and want to make dinners for one or two people. This book is intended to give the reader quick and easy recipes that make just enough food for themselves or themselves and another person, while teaching them some useful cooking tips along the way. There are a variety of meals in the book from pasta dishes to chicken, meat and fish dishes. There is also a chapter in the book about making meals for that special person in their life.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Don Alexander is not a professional chef. He is a 32 year old guy who just loves to cook. Don is a technology sales consultant who grew up in northwest Indiana. Don moved up to the northwest suburbs of Chicago after college, and has resided there since. As a child, Don used to watch his mother cook for her 5 children. He was fascinated with the way she would prepare the food, cook it, and time everything just right so all the dishes were done at the same time.Don's fascination with cooking hit a new level one day when his mother asked him if he'd like to stir one of the pots. Since that day, Don was hooked on cooking. His fascination with cooking even extended to watching cooking shows.For the past 10 years Don has been making meals that he remembered from his childhood, from watching cooking shows, and meals he found in cookbooks. His only dilemma was that he was usually only cooking for himself, and all the meals he learned from his childhood, the cooking shows, and cookbooks made servings for 4 to 6 people. During these 10 years he has been taking what he has learned about cooking and designed quick and easy meals for 1 or 2 people.His passion for cooking turned into the idea for a cookbook when he realized that there were thousands of people that were in his same situation. People who liked to cook, but didn't want the hassle of making large, complicated meals for just themselves, or just themselves and their significant other.Don felt that the numerous quick and easy recipes for 1 or 2 people he had created for himself could benefit thousands of people. This is when he decided to write the book. Hopefully, this book will give an insight into Don's passion for cooking, and let people who have the same passion, but are only cooking for 1 or 2 people actually enjoy cooking. Hopefully this book will also let people who don't know how to cook be able to learn how to start cooking.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: AuthorHouse (October 20, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1418485586
• ISBN-13: 978-1418485580
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,248,510 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #17 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Cooking, Food & Wine > Special Diet > Low Fat

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Were some ingredients omitted????, February 27, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: 1... 2... Cook: Quick and Easy Meals for One or Two People (Paperback)

Several recipes seem to have ingredients missing - such as his
bread crumb toppings. Recipes are easy to prepare but are too
basic and a little boring.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Please don't buy this cookbook, May 15, 2009

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Nancy C. Baeder - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 1...2...Cook: Quick and Easy Meals for One or Two People (Paperback)

I like to cook, but after I left my husband,I was not cooking for a family, but for me. This cookbook shows you not how to cook for one person but how to cook for a fraternity. This is not real food, unless cream cheese enters into your idea of haute cusinine (Fettucine Alfredo with Cream Cheese???)
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars would have been better without the pictures, January 26, 2005

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Nancy (Fresno, CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: 1... 2... Cook: Quick and Easy Meals for One or Two People (Hardcover)

I should have listened to the above reviewer, who was kind. Way too expensive for what is not there. I'm returning it for a basic Betty Crocker that comes with GOOD pictures.