Thank you! I would love to see more cooking for two in addition to your other videos. In fact, maybe you could cut your other recipes down to portions for two. I'm so glad I found you.
Just in case you missed it - I uploaded another 'Cooking for 2' video somewhat recently: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bfbbHpNSbNM.html
I made the lasagna for dinner this evening and it was very delicious. It’s a generous two servings. I’m going to try the chicken dish later this week. Thanks for the recipe. We are empty-nesters with two dogs!
Oh I'm glad you liked it! I probably make it about once a month. You're right about the serving size - usually we have it for dinner, and then one of us will have it for lunch the next day.
These would be such a great meal to give to new parents coming home from the hospital with a baby or anyone that could use a great homecooked meal from a friend.
Hi Anna, you're cute and funny! I've been binging your videos lately and laughing and remembering. I just watched your Halloween Cake and the Hawaiian Banana Bread videos. Both great videos. I grew up in the mid 50's, 60's and early 70's and my mom had some of your same vintage cookbooks. I used to love looking through them as a teen. I actually had the "Dinner for Two" cookbook when I was a new wife and mother and made many of those recipes! The Brown Butter cake is delicious. It was fun seeing the book and those illustrations again. I loved the Meal Plans for the various events and the table setting illustrations in the back of the book. I really loved that book. But then hubby died and every time I looked at that book I cried so I gave it to the Goodwill a few years back. Thanks for the GOOD memories.
I freeze lasagna in loaf pans, too, but I make my regular recipe and layer it in 3 loaf pans like you did. I have a vac sealer so they get vacd then into freezer. So nice to have them ready. Just defrost and bake. Love your boiling water trick.
You had me at pot pie😆👍. So tasty & I gotta quit buying KFC pot pies and make my own. Bravo for giving us 2 tasty recipes🎊🎊. I find your channel hypnotizing and comforting, 😊🌼🌼
Thank you for this video! It’s just me and my husband at home since our boys are grown and moved out. These recipes are perfect for the two of us. 😊yum
Nice, but after removing the foil, I like to stick the lasagna back into the oven to brown a little. That's a neat trick soaking the noodles for easier cutting, I use the oven ready but they're hard to cut. For the pot pie, I use the frozen crescent rolls 4 count instead of eight...freeze what I don't use right away. Well, everything you made looked delish, I could almost smell it. God Bless!
Hi Anna! Same. I love to make micro batches. Even when I'm writing a new bake, it's in micro batches. Love them. Or, some days, I'll do soup for one. A big mug of soup, made in the instant pot, for one. Other times for two. It's wonderful! PS: LOVE the mini bake sheet.
I love it! Small Soups - great idea. I like a lot of soups that my husband isn't a fan of, so this would work well for me! I think the mini baking sheet is 1/8 sized. I use it a lot!
@@cooking_the_books The eight sheets are super cute. I had a small fan oven for awhile and I used smaller sheets. Was fun! Same. I have meals that I do in my Instant Pot that Tim doesn't like. It's so great when he's at work and I just wanna crack out the mini pressure cooker! I make a cupppa soup or noodle dish at a time. Sometimes ... I'll make extra for the next day.
I love your videos! I have been trying to down size my recipes for two.I still cook like I am raising a family!😂Have ever heard of cook books called Cook for a day, eat for a month. My sister used to cook from those books and make them n small serving sizes for the freezer.
Love this so much! I am looking for recipes “for two” because I’m taking care of my mom - both of us don’t eat nearly enough and we don’t eat leftovers at all which sucks. I hate wasting food. Your channel is awesome! Definitely going to try out some of those vintage recipes but in the meantime: More of these, please!
Anna these are perfect recipes for my husband and myself since we are empty nesters. I like to have leftovers but sometimes I like to have a dish we can eat once, especially when I run out of room in my fridge and can’t put another thing in there lol. Thank you for sharing! Have a great day!
The fridge in our current rental home is a side by side fridge/freezer, which I’m not used to. I have trouble organizing the contents, so things get a little hairy in there if I have too many leftovers! 😂 thanks for watching!
@@cooking_the_books We had a side by side for 20 years and I was so glad when we finally got one where the fridge is two doors and the bottom is a drawer freezer, that is until I started filling it up lol. I have a little bit more room than before but sometimes too many leftovers can take up so much room.
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MashaAllah, this looks absolutely incredible, so delicious, aromatic and appetizing😋😋. Love the way u prepared it, so easy to follow and wonderfully done. Beautiful presentation and cooking skills👌👌. Well done dear💖💖💖
BRILLIANT! I’m a household of one now, and I can see how these can work well for me too! I’ve been making large recipes and splitting them smaller to freeze and it works, but it can feel a little overwhelming sometimes. This makes it feel so much easier to make something good and healthy for myself. 😋 Love this and I’m hoping this might be an occasional series you do 😃✨
This looks amazing! Was looking for some new recipes to cook for me and my husband, can't wait to try your recipe. Just subscribed and super excited for more recipes just like this one. 😍
Anna, for food prep, can you make these and freeze them unbaked? I wasn't sure how the noodles would do after freezing. What a great idea for two people!! We always have so much left over.
I used to make a half recipe of lasagna in an 8" x 8" pan, and it was still too much! This little loaf pan is perfect, with 2 generous servings or 4 smaller ones if one of us isn't as hungry....BUT we usually end up finishing all of it. 😄 Thanks for watching!
I’ve never seen refrigerated puff pastry. Chicken pot pie looks delicious! What a great idea for lasagna ! I need to make this because we always have way too much leftovers
Love these suggestions! It’s so hard to find small scale recipes and trying cut/reduce ingredients gets complicated- keep getting nasty flashbacks to math class and fractions😂. As a small aside I inherited my mom’s set of Pyrex primary colors baking dishes and mixing bowls which are still as good as they were when she got them as wedding presents in 1951. Her Betty Crocker notebook style cookbook is also part of my collection.
I love your lasagna for two idea! My toddler doesn't eat what my husband and I eat, so we always have leftovers. I'll definitely have to try this one day. Thanks for sharing!
I used to try a half recipe of lasagna in an 8 X 8 pan, and it was still too much for us. The little foil pans are just perfect! Thanks for watching. ♥
I missed the fact that you were making the chicken pot pie first and therefore thought it was lasagna. When the heavy cream was added i started getting concerned, but you should've seen my face when you added the peas.
I have a few more videos where I cook specifically from Better Homes & Gardens Cooking for Two. I also try to cut most of the recipes on my channel in half, so a lot of them make just enough for 2 people.
Hey Anna this concept is great 'cause I hate when recipes are for a family of 8 or 10 when it's just me or myself and my other half lol! Thank you! I'm loving the chicken pot pie and lasagna! Great that you've made them in these individual portions, no extras and you have just what you need! Both must be so so delicious!
They are definitely favorites on my meal plan! Leftovers really start to pile up in the fridge when I make too much, and I hate wasting food. Thanks for watching!
I'm new to you so we will see how this goes , lol But as a older couple im looking for some recipe ideas , " something different," from the usual,, I'll check out your playlist and hopefully get some new ideas. Happy cooking god bless
Wow! I never would have thought to grate carrots for a recipe like this, but for the small vessel and the cook time make it an optimal choice! And I MUST try that cute lasagna dish. Are the aluminum bread pans from dollar tree? :)
I have a grater that produces slightly bigger pieces of vegetables than your typical box grater and it's perfect. The bread pans sometimes come from Dollar Tree, sometimes from WalMart depending on who has them in stock!
Thanks for watching, Fiona! I hate wasting food, and preparing just the right amount of food for the two of us has really helped prevent this from happening.
Great concept! I often cook way too much but we are very greedy and eat everything anyway, not great for the waistline and summer is just around the corner 😅 Fantastic recipes thank you for sharing!
Both of my parents grew up in large families, so when I learned to cook it was in LARGE quantities. 😂 It took me a while to figure out some scaled down recipes. Thanks for watching!
Thank you for asking! She is doing ok. No more seizures since the 2nd one back in April. She seems to have adjusted to her medications, and we're trying to do things to help her feel more confident in her movements - more grippy rugs on the tile floor, and I just ordered some little paw shaped stickers with silicone grips for her feet. Today is the first day she has worn them, and so far so good! Even with her advanced age and recent health issues, she LOVES her walks. We still average 5 walks a day, between 15 - 35 minutes each!
Hi there! You can definitely freeze the lasagna. If you would like to freeze the pot pie, it would probably be best to make the filling and freeze that by itself, then top with puff pastry just before you're ready to bake it. Hope that helps!
