A Weekend Cook | Easy and Delicious Recipes for One

Do you want to cook more, but often find yourself too busy to spend time in the kitchen? My focus is on quick, simple, and delicious recipes for one. Here, you’ll discover everything from quick 30-minute meals, single-serving desserts, dinner recipes for one, small batch comfort food and old-fashioned favorites. Cooking for one is easier than you ever thought!

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A bowl of creamy chicken salad with cucumbers and olives, surrounded by a lemon, fresh lettuce, grape tomatoes, and seasoning in small bowls.

Greek Inspired Chicken Salad Recipe: Small Batch

This is by far the best Greek chicken salad recipe you will ever make! The…

A white skillet contains cooked rice, green peas, and two pieces of seasoned chicken. A fork and knife are placed beside the skillet on a light-colored surface.

One Pan Chicken, Rice, & Peas: Dinner for One

This one-pan chicken, rice, and peas dinner is ready in just 30 minutes and perfect…

A white plate of tortellini pasta salad with cherry tomatoes, avocado, red onion, and fresh basil, on a white marble surface.

Refreshing Single-Serving Tortellini Salad Recipe

This bright and fresh single-serving tortellini salad is the perfect quick lunch or light dinner…

A glass mason jar filled with limeade, ice, and lime slices, with a green striped paper straw, sits on a white surface beside sugar, limes, and kitchen containers.

Small Batch Homemade Limeade Recipe

How about an ice-cold, tart-sweet sip of the fair-style homemade limeade recipe! Don’t want to…

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Small white bowl of homemade marinara sauce.

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Plate of honey chicken and broccoli on a beige napkin.

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30-Minute Recipes

Mini banana cream pie in blue baking dish.

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Desserts

Plate with hamsteak, potatoes, carrots and sauerkraut with a napkin on side of plate.

Dinner

small bowl of sliced cucumbers in sour cream sauce.

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Baked chicken divan with serving spoon in small baking dish on wooden board.

Csseroles

Casseroles

Lighter Fare for Summer

Plate of blueberry and blue cheese salad. .

Blueberry & Blue Cheese Salad Recipe for One

This blueberry and blue cheese salad is so refreshing and great for a quick light…

Green sugar coated grapes in white bowl.

Refreshing Sugared Grapes Recipe

This easy sugared grapes recipes is perfect for snacking or taking to a summer picnic!…

Flatbread topped with cheese, peach slices, blackberries, walnuts, and arugula, cut into wedges on parchment.

Summer Peach & Brie Flatbread Pizza for One or Two

Bursting with summer’s best produce, this Peach & Brie Flatbread Pizza marries juicy peaches and…

Mini blueberry parfaits with layers of cream, graham crumbs, and blueberries in glass dessert cups.

Small Batch No-Bake Blueberry Parfait

This no-bake Blueberry Cheesecake Parfait is the perfect quick and easy dessert—ready in just about…

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mini cherry pie on black rimmed plate with fork.

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Whether you are looking for an easy dinner for one or something perfect for those second day leftovers, you’ll find something here!

Mini Casseroles

Casserole Recipes

Single serving of baked beef stew in casserole dish.

Mini Baked Beef Stew Casserole

spinach casserole in small baking dish on table with scatted spinach leaves.

Mini Spinach Casserole Recipe for One

Frosted chocolate brownies topped with walnut cooling on a parchment lined bakling sheet.

Small Batch Frosted Brownies Recipe

Potatoesd and sausage casserole inbaking dish with serving spoon.

Potato and Sausage Bake for One

Welcome to My Kitchen

Scrumptious comfort food recipes for one are created in my small 1960s kitchen. I learned to cook Shepherds Pie in England and Classic Marinara while living in Italy. Born in Southern California and raised in the Midwest, my cooking represents the best of both regions with an added touch of Southern hospitality.

About A Weekend Cook

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