Broke, stressed and hungry? Make sure every student you know has a copy of this essential cookbook! Recently graduated, Rachel Phipps knows the reality of a student kitchen – what you want to eat versus what you can actually make and afford. Here she offers hundreds of tried-and-tested ideas to cook with the minimal utensils, no fancy gadgets and affordable ingredients, for everyone from absolute beginners to kitchen wizards. Also Rachel’s essential student kitchen kit, starter store cupboard shopping list, smart meal maths and simple menu plans for one, two, four or more.Chapters Breakfast, Lunch, Solo Dinners, Food for Friends, Something Sweet, Drinks. Recipes Chorizo Baked Beans, Green Eggs & Ham, Leftover Fajita Burritos, Frying-pan Lasagne, Kitchen Cupboard Fishcakes, Pizza Baked Potato, Quick Late-night Miso Soup, One-Bowl Chocolate Cake and Banana & Nutella Muffins
Rachel is a freelance recipe developer by day, dabbling in (unpublished) fantasy fiction by night. Splitting time between London and the Kentish Countryside, in 2017 she quit life as a political staffer to write - and eat (!) full time.
Her first cookbook, Student Eats (Ebury) was published in 2017. Her new book, One Pan Pescatarian (Yellow Kite) is out this July.
As a psychiatrist at a university, I see too many students who have sub-optimal nutrition because they don't know how to eat fast,cheap, and healthy all at the same time. I was thrilled to discover Ms.Phipp's book because I am working on a college handbook and was trying to address the same dilemma.I was impressed at how quick so many of the recipes are and how clear her instructions were. The pictures of the dishes had me drooling over my cell phone. I can see how the student who makes several of these dishes could be the talk of her sorority. Ms.Phipp's book gives students one more reason to give their parents about why they should move out of their dorm room and have a kitchen so they don't have to eat unhealthy processed food. Bravo Ms.Phipps!
These are good recipes that serve one or two. Given the amount of seafood and fancy ingredients in the recipes, though, I'm not sure how budget friendly they are though!