The Complete Cooking for Two Cookbook

Learn the ins and outs of successful small-scale cooking from the experts at America’s Test Kitchen (ATK). This groundbreaking resource was the first to re-engineer recipes to serve just two.Over the years ATK discovered that scaling down a recipe isn't as simple as cutting the ingredients in half—cooking times, temperatures, and equipment need to be adapted as well.

ATK put their expertise to work to scale down 650 of their best recipes including the trickiest dishes, from soups and stews to stir-fries and meatloaf, even cakes and pies. They did the math to take the guesswork out of cooking for two so you can be sure that anything you want to make–whether it’s lasagna or a batch of fudgy brownies or a fluffly yellow cake–will come out perfectly every time. The extensive introduction includes clever shopping strategies to reduce waste, smart storage tricks that help extend the freshness of key ingredients, and our picks for the most useful kitchen equipment for any two-person household.

• 650 foolproof recipes for everything you’ll ever want to make.
• 500+ color recipe photos show you finished dishes.
• 'Fast' and 'light' recipes are flagged for easy reference.
• Notes from the Test Kitchen offers expertise on everything from various types of flour to the best steaks for two to freezing cheese.
• 250+ color step photos illustrate techniques.