Small Batch Recipes for Two - EASY dinners for 2! Cooking the Books

Great ideas

This was awesome! Thanks! 🙂. Meatloaf cut into 2 loaves for air fryer are also good for 2 peeps. Cook both together…eat one, freeze one. Win win.

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!

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.

You can also make a bunch of the pot pies and put then in disposable pans and freeze them. Then just take out what you want. Works wonderful

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.

Do you have any more Recipes for 2? I love cooking small amounts and not good with math to down-size recipes. Thanks for doing these.

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.

A fantastic and most welcome video!

How do you copy and print these recipes?

Looks delicious 😋

I loved this 2 person servings video.

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 series. It is so hard to find recipes for two. Ty!

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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.

These look amazing! Pls pls more recipes for 2 or small batch! 🎉❤

Love this! Not everyone lives in a household of 4+. I’ve had to sometimes not only halve but quarter recipes to avoid a plethora of leftovers.

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!

Yes! More small batch recipes please! I want to eat both of these. Yum

Wonderful ideas!!! Thank you so much for sharing these!

How would you do this with beef? Using vegetable broth, but would you sub out the chicken with the same amt of meat?

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

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!

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

Once you brush with egg wash, you could sprinkle celery seeds on top.

Great ideas!

Would love more of these please! Only hubby and I and we don't like leftovers! New subscriber now too btw!

Love it ❤
Hope you have more of these recipes 😋

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 😃✨

as a household of one, these are great.

Do you have any other recipes for two besides the two that you have posted?

did you make the pot holder?

Thank you sooooo much, living alone now and I can still cook and eat what I love. ThanX

More like this please!

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. 😍

Perfection 🎉

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 don't eat much, but those are super small servings on the pot pie. The lasagna is way more than I can eat. Lol.

These are grand! I’m living solo now & need to expand my dinner time menus. Thanks, Anna

Thanks for this one. We are a family of 2 and usually end up making and freezing. This is a great alternative.

My husband hates peas, so I just cut up green beans into pea sized pieces! Easy peasy!

I love this! I am so use to cooking for 4 and life has change, and I am getting tired of leftovers 🤣

Do you have a recipe for the meat sauce from scratch?
Thank you

Hi ,Can you freeze these recipe? thanks from NJ

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’m almost positive I would have seen this. I wouldn’t mind smaller portion videos I have two in my house also and one is a growing 7 year old boy.

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.

Thank you!

New kitchen?