You live alone, or with one other person. You have a freezer the size of a filing cabinet drawer. You are not feeding a family of six. So why is every batch-cooking book written as though you are? Protein on Ice is small-batch freezer cooking for people who cook once and eat well all week. Every recipe is portioned for one or two. Every recipe fits a small apartment freezer. And nothing here assumes you have a chest freezer in a garage, a spare Saturday, or teenagers who will eat the leftovers. The idea is simple. One ninety-minute session on a day of your choosing fills your freezer with single portions. For the rest of the week, dinner is a ten-minute problem instead of a ninety-minute one, and the bag of spinach in the crisper drawer stops turning into liquid. At the heart of the book are six master bases: a spiced mince, a shredded chicken, a lentil, a tomato-and-bean, a curry, and a soup base. Each one is deliberately underseasoned so it can become five genuinely different dinners, not five reruns of the same chilli you now resent. What's Inside: - Six master bases, each with five ways to turn it into a different dinner - More than 130 recipes portioned for one or two servings, with approximate protein per serving - Real quantities in imperial and metric, with sensible times and temperatures - Ten-minute weeknight dinners built from what is already frozen - Breakfasts you can eat standing up with your coat on - Soups, bowls, wraps, pasta, meatless mains, batch snacks, and weekend cooking - Straight talk on containers, portion sizes, labelling, and what freezes badly - Clear, conservative food-safety guidance: cooling, shallow portions, thawing, and reheating - Four one-week plans and a compact shopping approach that stops you wasting food - A "Freeze and Reheat" note on every single recipe, so nothing comes out of the freezer wrong Perfect for single professionals, couples, shift workers, students, and anyone who hates cooking twice and hates waste even more. It makes a genuinely useful housewarming or moving-out gift for someone facing a small kitchen for the first time. The voice is brisk, funny, and written for a person standing in a small kitchen at nine at night with the delivery app already open. Close the app. Open the freezer instead.
