How to Feed Yourself : 100 Fast, Cheap, and Reliable Recipes for Cooking When You Don't Know What You're Doing: A Cookbook

There’s a time in life when you wake up and realize you’re on your own: if you don’t feed yourself, it’s buttered noodles for the rest of your days. HOW TO FEED YOURSELF gives you exactly what you need to take control of your tiny kitchen and feed yourself depending on what's in your fridge, what you're craving, and what's happening in your life. The goal isn’t to be perfect, but to finally cook like a real adult. No special equipment or skills or ingredients or magic required.These recipes are based on the foods you probably have lying around—eggs, chicken, pasta, fish, potatoes, toast, grains, greens, and bananas. Once you’ve got those basics down, you’ll learn how to make them anything but basic with dishes like Really Legit Breakfast Tacos, Leftover Vodka Pasta Sauce, and Empty Peanut Butter Jar Noodles. Next, you’ll discover new flavor variations, including cinnamon toast three ways, how to make chicken not bland, and a complete theory of the seven best ways to stir fry.The real world of feeding yourself is actually pretty great. Welcome. Go forth and cook like a real person.\*\*About the AuthorSpoon University is a digital media brand created by and for the food-obsessed generation that is shaping the future of food. It’s a hub for recipes, cooking shortcuts, food news and trends that makes food fun and accessible. Spoon’s mission is to empower a community of young storytellers to explore their passions and discover their voices to create and share this content with the world. Founded in 2013 by Mackenzie Barth and Sarah Adler, Spoon University is now part of the Discovery brand portfolio, alongside Food Network and HGTV. For more information, recipes and food news, visit spoonuniversity.com and @spoonuniversity Learn how to fend for yourself in the kitchen with 100 easy, cheap, and fun recipes from Spoon University There’s a time in life when you wake up and realize you’re on your own: if you don’t feed yourself, it’s buttered noodles for the rest of your days. How to Feed Yourself gives you exactly what you need to take control of your kitchen—no matter what size­—and feed yourself depending on what’s in your fridge, what you’re craving, and what’s happening in your life. The goal isn’t to be perfect, but to finally cook like a real adult. No special equipment, skills, ingredients, or magic required. These recipes are based on the foods you probably have lying around—eggs, chicken, pasta, fish, potatoes, toast, grains, greens, and bananas. Once you’ve got those basics down, you’ll learn how to make them into dishes like Really Legit Breakfast Tacos , Leftover Vodka Pasta Sauce , and Empty Peanut Butter Jar Noodles . Next, you’ll discover new flavor variations, including cinnamon toast three ways, how to make chicken not bland, and the seven best ways to stir fry. The real world of feeding yourself is actually pretty great. Welcome. Go forth and cook like a real person. Spoon University has an incredibly engaged following of young adults, both online and on the 300+ college campuses where they have a network of 11,000 student contributors who create content for the website and run Spoon University clubs, holding monthly local events like dinner parties. Spoon U's content is a mix of videos in the style of Buzzfeed's Tasty videos, young-adult friendly recipes, and contributor-created articles about food and health. Their debut cookbook offers what the emerging foodie is looking for- healthy, cheap, easy, and good recipes. With a wry, knowing, funny voice, the approach is fresh, innovative, and highly visual. The book is organized around the 8 ingredients young adults are most likely to have in their kitchen--eggs, chicken, pasta, potatoes, toast, grains, greens, and bananas--and each of the 100 recipes is structured so that you can cook any recipe in the book with no prior experience. Clever recipes like Empty Peanut Butter Jar Noodles and Leftover Vodka Pasta Sauce, tips for sprucing up your meal for Instagram, easy ways to transform overripe bananas and an entire chapter devoted to toast speak to the real lives of young adults. Which came first : eggs -- Don't be a chicken -- Pasta : it's okay, you can eat it -- Embrace the fish -- Powered by potatoes -- All you need is toast -- Grains forever -- Veggies on veggies -- Stop throwing away your bananas -- Make-ahead meals that'll upgrade your life -- The group dinner conundrum -- Date night for the hopeless romantic -- Fake it till you make it -- Big-batch drinks for all your people -- Over the top, and we're into it.;"How to feed yourself" gives you exactly what you need to take control of your tiny kitchen and feed yourself, depending on what's in your fridge, what you're craving, and what's happening in your life. The goal isn't to be perfect but to finally cook like a real adult. No special equipment or skills or ingredients or magic required. These recipes are based on the foods you probably have lying around-- eggs, chicken, pasta, fish, potatoes, toast, grains, greens, and bananas. Once you've got the basics down, you'll learn how to transform these foods into anything but basic dishes, such as all-day breakfast tacos, penne alla leftover vodka, and empty peanut butter jar noodles. There’s a time in life when you wake up and realize you’re on your own: if you don’t feed yourself, it’s buttered noodles for the rest of your days. HOW TO FEED YOURSELF gives you exactly what you need to take control of your tiny kitchen and feed yourself depending on what's in your fridge, what you're craving, and what's happening in your life. The goal isn’t to be perfect, but to finally cook like a real adult. No special equipment or skills or ingredients or magic required. These recipes are based on the foods you probably have lying around—eggs, chicken, pasta, fish, potatoes, toast, grains, greens, and bananas. Once you’ve got those basics down, you’ll learn how to make them anything but basic with dishes like Really Legit Breakfast Tacos, Leftover Vodka Pasta Sauce, and Empty Peanut Butter Jar Noodles. Next, you’ll discover new flavor variations, including cinnamon toast three ways, how to make chicken not bland, and a complete theory of the seven best ways to stir fry. The real world of feeding yourself is actually pretty great. Welcome. Go forth and cook like a real person. There's a time in life when you wake up and realize you're on your own: if you don't feed yourself, it's buttered noodles for the rest of your days. COOK LIKE A REAL PERSON gives you exactly what you need to take control of your tiny kitchen and feed yourself depending on what's in your fridge, what you're craving, and what's happening in your life. The goal isn't to be perfect, but to finally cook like a real adult. No special equipment or skills or ingredients or magic required. These recipes are based on the foods you probably have lying around?eggs, chicken, pasta, potatoes, toast, grains, greens, and bananas. Once you've got those basics down, you'll learn how to make them anything but basic with dishes like Really Legit Breakfast Tacos, Leftover Vodka Pasta Sauce, and Empty Peanut Butter Jar Noodles. Next, you'll discover new flavor variations, including cinnamon toast three ways, how to make chicken not bland, and a complete theory of the seven best ways to stir fry. The real world of feeding yourself is actually pretty great. Welcome. Go forth and cook like a real person Offers healthy, simple, and affordable recipes for everyday meals, including such dishes as all-day breakfast tacos, curry chicken salad, beef chili ramen, loaded shrimp nachos, Mediterranean toast, easy fried rice, and bacon-wrapped dates