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Lorraine's Cookbook · Large-print PDF

I cooked for a living for forty-six years. Now I cook for one, every night. This is the book of how: every recipe written for one cook, with the amounts for two right beside it.

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Lorraine's Cookbook

By Lorraine Marino

One large-print PDF cookbook. Read it on a phone, a tablet or a computer, or print it at home.

  • What you get
  • 130 recipes written for one cook, with the amounts for two beside them
  • On every recipe: what you need, the steps, how to know it's done, how it keeps
  • Twelve weeks of dinner menus, each with its shopping list
  • Tonight's dinner three ways: by what's in the house, by the clock, by the half-used can
  • Pages you fill in: week planner, freezer inventory, shopping list, your own recipe cut down to one plate

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What's in it

Thirteen chapters. Ten recipes each.

Every recipe is laid out the same way: what you need, how it goes step by step, how to know it's done, how to make it for two, and how it keeps.

Chapters 1 to 7

Dinners

  1. Loaf Pan Dinners
  2. One-Skillet Dinners
  3. Sheet Pan Dinners
  4. Dump-and-Bake Dinners
  5. Small Slow Cooker Dinners
  6. Three-Ingredient Dinners
  7. Soups That Eat All Week

Chapters 8 to 13

The rest of the week

  1. Too Tired to Cook
  2. Muffin Pan Dinners for the Freezer
  3. Diner and Deli Plates for One
  4. Breakfasts Worth Getting Up For
  5. Lunch Plates and Sandwiches
  6. Something Sweet for One

In front

Before you cook

  • The kitchen and pantry the recipes assume
  • Buying for one
  • The freezer guide
  • One buy stretched over several plates
  • A portion guide
  • The safe-temperature page

At the back

Planning it

  • Twelve weeks of dinner menus, each with its shopping list
  • “The Other Half”: what to do with the rest of the can, jar or bag
  • “What's in the House”: tonight's dinner by what you have
  • “Dinners by the Clock”
  • The pages you fill in

A look inside

Three real pages from the book

A page from Lorraine's Cookbook: the contents
The contents
A page from Lorraine's Cookbook: a recipe from Chapter 3, Sheet Pan Dinners
A recipe, with the amounts for one and for two
A page from Lorraine's Cookbook: one week of dinner menus with its shopping list
A week of dinners and its shopping list
Lorraine at her white enamel range, a black steel pan on the burner

A note from me

Listen. I'm Lorraine.

I cooked for forty-six years: a diner in Queens, a red-sauce place in Brooklyn, a lunch counter in Midtown, a hotel banquet kitchen, then lunch for about eighty seniors a day at a county senior center upstate. I'm a cook, not a chef. Chefs write the menu. I cooked it.

Now I cook for one, in a farmhouse kitchen in the western Catskills. The year after my husband Ray died, I ate toast standing at the sink. Then I started cooking a real plate again, and sitting down to it. This book is how I do it.

  1. Cook the plate in front of you.
  2. Buy what you'll finish.
  3. Sit down to eat it.

One pan, one plate, and sit down to eat it. You're worth cooking for.Lorraine

Before you buy

Plain questions, plain answers

How do I get it after I pay?

Right away. You pay by card and the download opens on the next page. The same link comes to your email, usually inside a minute. Nothing comes in the mail.

What is it, exactly? Can I print it?

One PDF cookbook in large print. Read it on a phone, a tablet or a computer, or print it at home. The fill-in pages are made to be printed and written on.

I cook for two. Is it any use to me?

Yes. Every recipe has the amounts for two beside the amounts for one, and a line that says what changes. Three chapters make more than one plate on purpose: the slow cooker makes two plates, the soups make three or four bowls, and the muffin pan makes six cups for the freezer.

Do I need special pans?

No. Ordinary small pans, a small slow cooker for one chapter, a microwave, a timer and an instant-read thermometer. The front of the book lists the kitchen and pantry every recipe assumes, so you know before you shop.

I'm on a special diet.

Then go by your doctor. I'm a cook, not a dietitian, a nurse or a doctor, and nothing in the book is medical or dietary advice. If your doctor has you on a special diet, their word beats mine.

Is this a subscription?

No. One payment, and the book is yours to keep.

What's the refund policy?

Seven days. Send one email to lorraine@lorrainecooks.com inside a week and you get your money back. You don't have to say why. The details are on the refunds page.

The first page of Chapter 3, Sheet Pan Dinners

Not sure yet, neighbor? Cook a chapter first.

Enter your email and Chapter 3, “Sheet Pan Dinners”, opens right away, with a copy sent to your inbox too. Ten dinners, complete.

One email with the chapter, then a note from me now and then. Unsubscribe any time.

Tonight

One pan. One plate. Sit down to eat it.

130 recipes written for one cook, with the amounts for two, twelve weeks of menus and the pages you fill in. Large print, yours to keep, on a screen or on paper.

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