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\lJn ldl Fo::,! -;::;; \ : i \ \ \\_.. }__) ) l·._i 0 1 1 ' 1 ! I Ll \.J J alsoafondandfrequentcontributortoourpages. ,_.-- - LJ! '1 A J I I ! 1 f i \ i1 ' ll 1 l l{ l how many s1ngle women who ex1st on TV d1nners, \ .\j. m' \ \ Kentucky fried chocken, or by nibbling cheese and \ al And more than likely coming down with " • :, -=-, " \ hypoglycemia, obesity, spastic colon and a short temper. I mean, how long can you keep depriving ...... ------=--- --· -- _ ' ,...... _ -;;:r,._ ------.:: yourself of an essential item like food? lsonetowait [ until she marries Prince Charming and has someone to 4 '\18 .,- 1' J· Jl cookforevertotasterareroastbeefagain? <::::?> "11 ) ... , I have cooked for myself for years (although I have ·----- / • •• I ' ) e f " had an occasional menage-- a deux, I seem to be remaining resolutely single.) Friends have mocked my /"'.. f long standing devotion to Woman's Day which I bought _ c. \{1,, - 1 faithfullyuntilthepricewentover20cents. I first began cooking for myself as an impoverished - ' '\ ·-..__.(' \ _

absolute e<:anomic necessity- ! simply couldn't afford 1 -- ;:::::::-----. ------1\: - - - to eat in even the cheapest restaurants. Further, I was ... fussy about food and heating beans simply didn't satisfy my aesthetic. In the long and colorful years since ,, 1 'D' 1 then, I have developed some interesting and practical - methods of cooking for myself that I shall pass on to __' '- - __)-- - u------..,' you tosatisfymysocialobligations. 1) Don't cook for yourself. Have company over i I I · twice a week and cook for them. And it doesn't have to 1' ... •t' Ru1l Set tv W J\ beyourcurrentbeau.Whynot t heothersinglewoman \...! ·-- .:.. - 7' you work with, or the young couple next door? It will make for a more interesting social life. Furthermore, if you play your cards ri!fit, your guests will invite you over to their houses in return and that will solve your Recipes cooking problems for another two days a week. Famous Fosberg 2) Move close to a good grocery store. A good tramp&rent. Add two WP' of liquid-chiclc&l'l tJtoth ore grocery store for a single person is one which sells small Here eree eoupt.eo1famous: Fosbergrecipesthetare can of nwshrooms.- If you can afford them. Season with portions of meat and it s vegetables ind ivi dually. It amazingly easy to fix: 98flic, satt, pepper and C\lf'T)' powder. Put the meat bad< should have a short checkout line so you don't have to Beef, TomatO and Green Pepper. (Thi$ is a Add pitted ripe ollvn and urfp$ of ptmemo, COVflf wait an hour to buy two dollars worth of salad f ix ing s. for surprise company as you can make It fn ten tightly ana cook aboUt SO minutes ina 35Gdegreetwen. A giant supermarket may be all right if you've got four minute&.} TriM a cheap pi&butcher {straw hat, apro n and all ) will cut one meat strips until cooked. Add large chunks: of to be late, • ltcan.b(lkept warm in the oven fot houn.. pork chop. In a small store you can establish a close fresl:t tomato and dump a can of mudlrQOm gravy iMsausage in $U$On {when it's 30 cenb a f)OU!'ld:). greens that other customers had removed from their Braise it up with our .MN :SUndard onioN: and green vegetables.. If you can get the food easily, you're more Chk:keo, a-nd Splnadl. (AsWming vou'Vil: You hav& lif\9!1 botled up $0me dried llma likely to have the incentive to cook it. brolted up .extr$ llh!cken the flight before.) Pltk tit's oot tti;it llird, d'lellpe( than caonvd, . Mtd 3) Don't cook in small portions. A little bit of butter tM ch1:cken from the bones- {boll the bones and Sl(in fot bee?' Dt*ln 1M beam and edd. the sauuge- and oniom burns in t he bottom of the pan. If you'regoing to peel Soup stoc:Jo:). Bntht.onions and C*lerv and large_ dkles to them, oil aM three carrots, why not peel six? Then you can be <11 yettow liJfTII'M:t $t!uash (or white "fua-sh. or Wt garlic i1ld SpririkWr a terribly creative and figure outsixdifferentwaystofix wNtl'ier'thandY) In -oil. Add chicken a-nd tomatoes.. good coat of parmesan ch-. 01/ti' the top and bake in ca!Tots so you won't feel like you're eating the same lor any ....-. le.fv Vegttabit-). Add' a lint• liquid ·(1r • 350d&gr.eoven thing all week. !chicken broth. a of mushroom broll), or 4) Pick a diiY when you're doing something else a-nvtfiing tasty tha-t oomes 1'C hand). Flavor With to.u of d!'h or • fiHinglidedistt. lt"t. like the htundry, or drying yoor hair or -..c:t. prlk:, salt and gingtr, Cover aod tetm.n a dish for breakfast witj\ serambled tQ9&. end I like it cOld fO( midnight soad<.s. 11 )'oiJ di>R't like you c:m building bookcase, and do all your cooking tor a few rnini.Jtts until -..,etablff _. iuft tender. Thitkan SIIIJ<:I lilltth flovr or cornstarch, if you Ilk•. afld wve ust .In the porte family. Ad(We week, by meam of a Mi!Ster Meal Plan. One such plan is ortwobanJcetoiJCh; to buy a couple of pounds of ground meat, chop up a 0\l'ltfrict. lest you think f am tpending a- fortune food 1 flock of onions and green peppers, open a few large Puucto-hatla. Br3isa Ol\lons:. green peppers, ettfclten on- ked myself all meals and company at lea$1: once- e cans of tomatoes and make meat loaf, spaghetti sauce, ttligM and latge thunks ot sweet italian for $16 food bUdget. hoW chiliconcarneandstuffed Reppers all at once, using the a!'IQther sausage that taltes your fancy) in your faittduJ ever* No liberated we get. still have to eat. If you want to eat same basic ingredients and 4 5 minutes of preparation. iron skilh!t « du-tch lift out the meat and dutriJ:'I In one rice irrto the oil, stirring until tlu!_ well, cook for youneH. topage 19