Thursday, April 26, 2007

Cooking For Two - Double the Fun, Half the Cost



The meals available in the market usually are meant for one or for a whole family. The meals are seldom meant for two. If you plan cooking for two you will have to use your ingenuity and a little manipulation to make things perfect. There are many couples out there who have used tiny tricks to make cooking for two a great experience.

Some of these tricks are listed below for your ready reference. Hope they are useful and inspiring for you as they were for me. Initially when you seek ready-made meals for cooking for two you might be baffled by the lack of choice. However, if you use a little imagination, you can turn this problem into your best advantage.

Cooking For Two Can Be Great Fun

1. Choicer - you should plan your whole week's menu and buy meals that can complement each other. Hence, you can divide two single meals and mix them into an exotic dish for two without lifting a finger for the effort. You could also mix and match the many types of meals out of there so you could have a taste of both anytime.

2. Divide the cost - often two meals can be divided with ease into three servings. That means four meals can become six meals. Hence, if you choose the right combinations, you can manage the whole week with just four full, single meals - giving you a saving of two meals, which in the long run is just wonderful.

3. Cooking for two is romantic - not always, true. But it can be if you want it to become. All you need to cook some exotic Hawaiian dish have some savage drums playing in the background and voila! You can rekindle your romance just as simple as 1-2-3.

4. Using leftover for experimenting with food - cooking for two can leave out a lot of odds and ends leftovers. By the end of the week, if you are in real luck, you will have sufficient leftovers to make some wonderful experiments in the kitchen on Sunday. Often, the results are so extraordinary that you will need to document the recipe. SO, keep a pen and paper handy in the kitchen all the time.

5. Using expensive stuff - cooking for two will allow you to splurge sometimes of some exceptional ingredients that you would not have chosen had you been alone. There are times, when cooking for two inspires you to gourmet cooking, which will make life more beautiful and interesting - not to mention tasty.