You might benefit from a pretty cool cookbook called "Help! My Apartment Has a Kitchen!" It's kind of a Dummies' Guide to cooking for yourself. The sequel, which I have but haven't used, is called "Help! My Apartment Has a Dining Room!" That one is about entertaining without killing yourself. A then-young guy wrote both (I think his mom is coauthor on at least the second one).
Chronicle Books published "Basic Cooking," which has a safety-orange colored cover. It looks good.
Also, it would be hard to go wrong with Alton Brown's book "Food + Heat + Cooking." He's the guy from Food Network's "Good Eats," and he's a trip (as well as a good teacher).
Cooking is fun. Try it--you might like it. The only drag is that doing lots of work and then eating alone can be a bit of a letdown. Bonus, though--leftovers mean not cooking every day. The freezer is your friend.
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Chronicle Books published "Basic Cooking," which has a safety-orange colored cover. It looks good.
Also, it would be hard to go wrong with Alton Brown's book "Food + Heat + Cooking." He's the guy from Food Network's "Good Eats," and he's a trip (as well as a good teacher).
Cooking is fun. Try it--you might like it. The only drag is that doing lots of work and then eating alone can be a bit of a letdown. Bonus, though--leftovers mean not cooking every day. The freezer is your friend.