Life · Weeknight
Learning to Cook for One, Again
For a long time, cooking for one felt like cooking wrong — half a recipe, a pan too big, a portion that never seemed worth the effort.
It took a while to realize the problem wasn't the number of people at the table. It was that I kept applying a recipe built for four to a night meant for one, and blaming the night for not matching the math.
Cooking for one isn't cooking less. It's cooking exactly enough.
Now I cook smaller and more often. A single soft-boiled egg over rice on a Tuesday isn't a lesser meal. It's just a meal sized correctly for the person eating it.
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