<p>I posted this in College Life, but I didn't receive any responses. I'm looking for a great cookbook that's catered towards college students (low-prep time, single portions, cost-conscious, etc.). Any suggestions or personal experience with one?</p>
<p>Something from the Borders clearance shelf. I got my kids something $5 that claimed to have recipes that take 10-20-30 minutes to prepare. It was a great success.</p>
<p>"Best College Cookbook?"</p>
<p>Local Yellow Pages. Section Food Delivery. :)</p>
<p>1001 recipes using beer?</p>
<p>I saw one long ago- how to cook in your dorm room using only a coffee pot, popcorn popper (the kind that uses oil) and an iron. Those were the only applliances allowed in the dorm. We used to make quesadilla's using the iron and aluminum foil. Sorry, I can't remember the name.</p>
<p>Here ya go!
<a href="http://www.yumyum.com/student/index.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.yumyum.com/student/index.htm</a></p>
<p>Freshman year, I sent both kids copies of the 1964 edition of Joy of Cooking (my personal favorite). Bought them for a few bucks at <a href="http://www.abebooks.com%5B/url%5D">www.abebooks.com</a>. Sophomore year, both kids asked me to find additional copies to give to friends who kept borrowing their copies. Ditto junior year. And finally more senior year.</p>
<p>Mark Bittman's Quick and Easy Recipes * <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Mark-Bittmans-Quick-Recipes-Times/dp/0767926234/ref=pd_sim_b_2/702-8996680-7585659?ie=UTF8&qid=1188997052&sr=1-1%5B/url%5D">http://www.amazon.ca/Mark-Bittmans-Quick-Recipes-Times/dp/0767926234/ref=pd_sim_b_2/702-8996680-7585659?ie=UTF8&qid=1188997052&sr=1-1</a> might be just what you need. (He wrote The Minimalist column in the New York Times.) I don't have that book, but love *The Best Recipes in the World and How to Cook Everything. Another possible cookbook is the 5 in 10 Cookbook, 5 ingredients in 10 minutes. Haven't tried it myself though.</p>
<p>I second The Joy of Cooking. I had promised my son a copy when he got into his first apt. I forgot about it but he hadn't. It is a good, basic book. Since then he and his friends have branched out into homemade sushi & pasta, and other very ethnic foods (middle eastern a favorite) as well as establishing a community garden, taking fishing poles on every backpacking trip, and renewing their hunting licenses. :P</p>
<p>There's an article in our local paper (Dallas Morning News) today titled: Intro to Cooking: Homework You can Eat, and it's all about cooking in college. The cookbooks they recommend are:</p>
<p>1) The College Cookbook, by Geri Harrington;
2) College Cooking: Feed Yourself and Your Friends, by Megan and Jill Carle;
3) The Healthy College Cookbook, by Alexandra Nimetz, Jason Stanley and Emeline Starr; and
4) Munchies, by Kevin Telles Roberts.</p>
<p>There was a thread about this on The Parent Cafe this summer. Actually I think I started the thread.</p>
<p>These are links I saved to some of the items that were recommended:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.yumyum.com/student/%5B/url%5D">http://www.yumyum.com/student/</a>
<a href="http://www.epicurious.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.epicurious.com/</a>
<a href="http://homecooking.about.com/library/archive/blmisc36.htm%5B/url%5D">http://homecooking.about.com/library/archive/blmisc36.htm</a>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Help-Apartment-Has-Kitchen-Cookbook/dp/0618711759/ref=sr_1_1/104-7249453-4788764?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1184470045&sr=8-1%5B/url%5D">http://www.amazon.com/Help-Apartment-Has-Kitchen-Cookbook/dp/0618711759/ref=sr_1_1/104-7249453-4788764?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1184470045&sr=8-1</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007FXR9E/eat0e-20%5B/url%5D">http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007FXR9E/eat0e-20</a>
<a href="http://www.buy.com/prod/the-healthy-college-cookbook-quick-cheap-and-easy/q/loc/106/30476202.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.buy.com/prod/the-healthy-college-cookbook-quick-cheap-and-easy/q/loc/106/30476202.html</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.buy.com/prod/the-starving-students-cookbook/q/loc/106/30965957.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.buy.com/prod/the-starving-students-cookbook/q/loc/106/30965957.html</a>
<a href="http://www.buy.com/prod/the-starving-students-vegetarian-cookbook/q/loc/106/30735206.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.buy.com/prod/the-starving-students-vegetarian-cookbook/q/loc/106/30735206.html</a></p>
<p>For more detail/ background you can search for that prior thread.</p>
<p>my son considers himself iron chef crock pot. A great investment we made during his sophomore year is a small chest freezer. It had alot of freezer storage for one guy. He'd cook one or two nights and make up meals for the week. He'd also be able to take advantage of bulk or family size packages. </p>
<p>He has continued this in St.louis where alot of his housemates live off of frozen tv dinners (which tend to be high sodium) while he reheats stews and soups, along with chicken breasts, burgers and veggies. </p>
<p>As far as a cookbook visit the foodnetwork website. thousands of receipes to choose from.</p>
<p>Here's the link to that prior thread:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=369477%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=369477</a></p>
<p>The Four Ingredient Cookbook</p>
<p>I have a kitchen in my dorm this year but I'm still working on my cooking supplies (so far, other than basic things to eat off of, I only have a 2 1/2 quart saucepan and a cookie sheet, but I'll get some more things as I need them). Does anyone know of a good vegetarian cookbook that has recipes that don't take a million pots and pans and that don't take that long to prep? Thanks.</p>
<p>For vegetarian cooking Mollie Katzen's Still Life with Menu is better than her original Moosewood Cookbook. It's geared towards people who work. There is still a fair amount of chopping vegetables, but she talks about things you can do ahead of time and the recipes are generally similar. I should get it out again, I haven't used it in a while.</p>
<p>The Ramen Noodle recipe?</p>
<p>Post 7 suggests the 1964 edition of Joy of Cooking and says it is my personal favorite.</p>
<p>I whole heartedly agree, I own about 125 different cookbooks, if I could only have one it would be the 1964 edition of Joy of Cooking. The 1964 edition is readily available at used book stores, and it is important to get the 1964 edition, it is just better. </p>
<p>At first the book will look like to much information. Go to the index and look up something simple to prepare (pasta and tomato sauce) that you have eaten and liked in the past, prepare it. Do this three times and you will become comfortable with the book and realize with its help you can cook. It might help if while at home the student used the book and had Mom or Dad supervises while they fixed their first one or two meals. </p>
<p>Also it is very helpfully the student is taught how to do their own laundry before they go off to school, lot of kids dont know you should not wash your red polo shirt and polo white shirt together in hot water and they end up with a red and pink polo shirts.</p>