Originally Posted by
redheadtempe33
So good question. When I google, "Cooking for One", this is one of the recipes that comes up:
Ingredients
2/3 cup Greek yogurt
1/2 English cucumber, seeds scooped out, skin peeled off, and cut into chunky half moons
1/4 cup roughly chopped mint leaves
1 bunch roughly chopped chives (about 1/3 cup), divided
3 tablespoons roughly chopped fresh oregano (divided)
3 medium cloves garlic, minced (about 1 tablespoon)
2 teaspoons fresh juice from 1 lemon
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
14 ounces ground lamb
A drizzle of olive oil
2 warm pitas
Yogurt-Bad in a week
Cucumber - No, won't last a week at best.
The spices? Yes they say fresh but I guess I could get freeze dried.
Lamb - How do you buy 14 ounces of Lamb? Everywhere I look, it is 2-3 pounds. Yes, I could cut it up, but it is difficult with bone in.
So, am I just going to the wrong places?
Yogurt - get a spoon and eat the rest of it - mix in a little honey/preserves if you like.
Cucumber - buy the smallest you can find and either just eat the rest or use it in a salad.
Fresh herbs - harder
Garlic - keeps for quite awhile, we just have a little cup that we keep in our kitchen towel drawer and it is good for several weeks.
Lamb - why would you buy bone-in lamb? A good supermarket will sell you exactly what you need, already ground.