A guide to cooking for guys, featuring recipes for chicken, beef, things that go with beer, and other dishes, and includes a shopping list for each recipe.

One evening, I came into the kitchen planning to microwave some left-over pizza. There he was - this kitchen god. (I’m serious, stop laughing.) He said he was kicked out of the cooking universe for gross abuse of something or other. (I think it was snorting curry or cinnamon.) Anyway, he made a deal with me to publish this book and help single guys eat better and save cash. There is a lot of basic information (shopping, supplies, tools, etc.). But more important, you will learn how to enjoy food that you make yourself. You will become an adventurer, an explorer and conqueror of meat, vegetables, and condiments.

Some men are single by choice; others end up single through little to no choice of their own. Many of these divorced men and widowers find themselves overwhelmed by the multitude of new tasks at hand, from doing laundry to raising children on their own. Jeff Bruner lost his wife of 25 years suddenly to cancer, and soon found himself spending most of the day paying bills or hours wandering around the grocery store, not even knowing what he needed. Through trial and error, he learned how to perform the many tasks that his wife had done for years, and he has written this extremely helpful guide for "freshly single" men that covers everything from cooking to cleaning to combing cat fur. The Freshly Single Man's Guide to Household Survival might become the new Bible for the millions of suddenly single Sams in our society.

There comes a time in every man's life where he has to step away from the microwave. With the help of Avi's man-centric recipes, techniques and commentary, you'll build confidence in the kitchen—and you'll have some pretty amazing meals to show for it. Recipes are geared toward goals like cooking the perfect burger, using leftovers to make a gourmet meal that'll wow your family, impressing a date, saving money, feeding the guys on game day, and most importantly, just flat out making an easy, hardy meal you can sit down and enjoy alone. Recipes include Sizzling Skillet Steak with Twice Baked Potato, Kickass Fish Tacos and Mind-Blowing Meatballs with Ziti. With The Single Guy Cookbook, you'll make delicious and awe-inspiring dishes that you'll be proud to place in front of any person who enters your man cave.

No more burnt offerings! Whether it’s nachos or crock-pot kielbasa, a party, something quick for the kids’ lunch, a romantic date night, or dinner-for-one, this guy-friendly cookbook features over 230 real-food recipes for everything from vegetables, pasta, and desserts, to leftovers, appetizers, and grilling. Instead of relying on shortcuts, canned food, or unhealthy processed ingredients, it pares down complex cooking instructions, explains basic cooking terms, figures in prep time and cook time, and allots larger portion sizes. • Notes high-salt or high-cholesterol recipes. • Includes more than 230 recipes. • Provides special tips, advice, and recipe construction for beginners, plus bigger portion sizes for hungry men.

This Viking Cookbook is for the guys in your life who refuse to learn how to cook. This little gem was created for my brother and anyone out there who needs some basic help in the kitchen. These quick and easy recipes will be just what they need to fill in the gaps for when you or mother stops by with a pot of something special.

From the legendary editor of some of the world’s greatest cooks—including Julia Child and James Beard—a passionate and practical book about the joys of cooking for one. Here, in convincing fashion, Judith Jones demonstrates that cooking for yourself presents unparalleled possibilities for both pleasure and experimentation: you can utilize whatever ingredients appeal, using farmers’ markets and specialty shops to enrich your palate and improve your health; you can feel free to fail, since a meal for one doesn’t have to be perfect; and you can use leftovers to innovate—in the course of a week, the remains of beef bourguignon might be reimagined as a ragù, pork tenderloin may become a stir-fry, a cup or two of wild rice produces both a refreshing pilaf and a rich pancake, and red snapper can be reinvented as a summery salad. It’s a fulfilling and immensely economical process, one perfectly suited for our times—although, as Jones points out, cooking for one also means we can occasionally indulge ourselves in a favorite treat. Throughout, Jones is both our instructor and our mentor, suggesting basic recipes—such as tomato sauce, preserved lemons, pesto, and homemade stock—that all cooks should have on hand; teaching us how to improvise using an ingenious strategy of building meals through the week; and supplying us with a lifetime’s worth of tips and shortcuts. From Child’s advice for buying fresh meat to Beard’s challenge to beginning crêpe-makers and Lidia Bastianich’s tips for cooking perfectly sauced pasta, Jones’s book presents a wealth of acquired knowledge from our finest cooks. The Pleasures of Cooking for One is a vibrant, wise celebration of food and enjoying our own company from one of our most treasured cooking experts.

I grew up in Wichita, Kansas. From the time I can remember I was always getting into some kind of trouble. Not that I was a bad kid, but I just wanted to know how things worked. As a child I had a lot of interests like rocks, rockets, and Judy in the third grade. In my late teens, I rode a wave from mania to depression, doing everything I could to stimulate the mania. My first job was at a small one-man fast food burger shop that I accidentally burned down. Having lost my first job and being bored by high school, I quit during my senior year, joined the Army, and got my GED in the fall. This was in 1967; the Army decided they needed me to save their butts in Vietnam. When my tour was up, I got out and roamed around for a couple of years. It was at this point that I really got interested in food and cooking. I took a job as a cook at a great little BBQ pit where I learned the art of smoke. I then moved on, becoming the lead cook at a popular Chinese restaurant. I then joined the Coast Guard. The first thing they did was to send me to electronics training. My time in the Coast Guard was a gasathey sent me to Japan, Thailand, Alaska, and Las Vegas. During this time I got married and my daughter was born. Later I was offered a position in Saudi Arabia as a site manager, where I spent the next four years digging sand out of my ears and managing thirty of the biggest bunch of horny misfits you ever saw. I also got divorced during this period, but managed to keep my greatest love and best friendaOlivia. I then moved back to the states, where I became the director of electronics at a local trade school for nine years. I later moved to Las Vegas. aOnce again in the quest for the perfectcookbook, Rick has integrated man humor, philosophy, and social commentary into a single delightful cookbook. Proving again that the world is indeed going to hell in a handbasket.a aI warned you about encouraging him!! Now he thinks he can write and cook. Yesterday he made a Black Forest cake out of five pounds of cherries and a live beaver.a Anonymous

By showing that kitchen skill, and not budget, is the key to great food, Good and Cheap will help you eat well—really well—on the strictest of budgets. Created for people who have to watch every dollar—but particularly those living on the U.S. food stamp allotment of $4.00 a day—Good and Cheap is a cookbook filled with delicious, healthful recipes backed by ideas that will make everyone who uses it a better cook. From Spicy Pulled Pork to Barley Risotto with Peas, and from Chorizo and White Bean Ragù to Vegetable Jambalaya, the more than 100 recipes maximize every ingredient and teach economical cooking methods. There are recipes for breakfasts, soups and salads, lunches, snacks, big batch meals—and even desserts, like crispy, gooey Caramelized Bananas. Plus there are tips on shopping smartly and the minimal equipment needed to cook successfully. And when you buy one, we give one! With every copy of Good and Cheap purchased, the publisher will donate a free copy to a person or family in need. Donated books will be distributed through food charities, nonprofits, and other organizations. You can feel proud that your purchase of this book supports the people who need it most, giving them the tools to make healthy and delicious food. An IACP Cookbook Awards Winner.

"From the breakout star of MasterChef Australia, Dan Churchill's ... cookbook that will educate, motivate, and inspire men to put on an apron and turn on the oven. Attention, dudes: you no longer have an excuse to avoid the kitchen. Dan Churchill has written a cookbook for guys who have always wanted to cook, but don't know where to start; boyfriends who are intimated by a frying pan; and sons who have too long relied on their parents for meals. These mouth-watering recipes are easy to read and, most important, easy to replicate ... Divided into sections based on everyday scenarios and featuring forty-five recipes, DudeFood shares the secrets to cooking a repertoire of eggs, seafood, poultry, meats, vegetables, sandwiches, and even desserts ... Packed with helpful tips and shortcuts, as well as beautiful photographs, this book will turn any dude into a cook"--