I really liked the premise of this book as it is very rare that cook books and recipes are for one person.

However this cookbook felt quiye date with lots of meat recipes and premade food so there wasn't too much cooking actually involved eg the Tortellini being ready made. I did like the photos and it was clearly laid out.

Thank you for the arc but I won't be picking this up again.

I received The "I Love My Instant Pot" Cooking for One Recipe Book as part of a NetGalley giveaway.

The Instant Pot is one of the hot new countertop appliances of the last 5 years. As the title suggests, this volume explores recipes designed for it, specifically focused on smaller servings. There are a wide range of recipes, from breakfasts to side dishes to main dishes to desserts, in addition to a dedicated vegetarian section. The presentation (photography and layout) is nothing spectacular), but it has a great selection of simple recipes that require little effort but produce great results.

This cookbook is a great addition to the collection of anyone learning to use their instant pot. Having all of the recipes tailored to individual servings is a great idea - and they can easily be multiplied if serving a larger crowd.

Some of the recipes were a bit too simplistic (putting pre-made potstickers into the instant pot to cook, instead of a recipe to cook them from scratch), but most were great basics to have on hand. Having more recipes for main dishes that included plant-based protein options would have been an improvement; a lot of the vegetarian mains felt like side dishes instead of a full meal.

Overall a great book to have on hand when you're looking for a quick and easy meal using the instant pot!

I have been looking for a cookbook that I truly liked for one person. And, The I Love My Instant Pot Cooking for One Recipe Book is the perfect book.

The descriptions for the recipes are easy to follow. I will definitely be trying all of them out - one by one, can't wait.

What a wonderful book, especially during these times when you are spending more time at home cooking than going out to eat.

Thank you for this book!!

It's an okay cookbook, but most of the recipes seem to be pretty basic. I think this would be a great recipe book for someone who is really, truly JUST learning how to cook for themselves. Aside from the pretty basic recipes, there's also a lack of pictures. Maybe that's a childish nit-pick to have, but I've always felt like cookbooks were like picture books for adults, so it's always a letdown for me to see one with so few photos.

It is not easy to find instant pot recipes for 1 or 2 people, so this is a welcome addition to the genre of instant pot cookbooks. The recipes include a variety of dishes and there are enough of them that most people will find favorites fairly easily. If you have been hesitant with your instant pot, this is a good book to get you cooking.

Excellent Instant Pot or pressure cooker cookbook. I found many good ideas for my pressure cooker use. I wish more pictures were in the cookbook.

I’ve had an Instant Pot for about a year and a half. I was so excited when I got it because I had heard so many people talk about how great they were. Then I tried it myself and didn’t have good results. I had trouble figuring out the pressure cook function, I kept burning things on the bottom of the pot, and I just couldn’t get the timing right. I felt overwhelmed and like I had wasted my money, so on the corner of my counter it sat collecting dust. I saw this book and thought I’d give the ol’ Instant Pot one more try. Boy, am I glad I did!

Although I have a large family, because of certain dietary restrictions I have, I usually cook something separate for myself. I really like the convenience of being able to mix together a relatively simple list of “real food” ingredients, putting it in a pot and letting it cook without much fuss. This frees me up to cook something else for my family at the same time. I like that this is a fuss free cookbook. Everything is customizable, but the ingredients are common, and most recipes don’t entail a lot of steps. If the sodium content of a dish is too high for you, you can reduce the added salt or leave out a salty ingredient. Heavy cream makes for a decadent sauce, but there are numerous things you can substitute for a lower fat content. Don’t want to add sugar? Try a mashed banana. That works great with oatmeal.

There are a lot of recipes included, and they are quite varied as far of type of meal and cuisine. So far I’ve made the Blueberry-Almond Oatmeal, Chicken and Sweet Potato Curry(I subbed tofu for the chicken and it still turned out well), Creamy Cauliflower Puree, Pasta Primavera, and Garlic-Chili Fish Tacos with Spicy Lime Crema. I made pasta and the noodles weren’t overcooked and soggy! Everything was really good! It’s given me so much confidence I plan on attempting yogurt soon.

My only critique is that I wish more photos of the dishes were included. Not only do we eat with our eyes first, but the photos serve a practical purpose of helping me know what the dish is meant to look like when completed.

I recommend this cookbook to anyone who wants to use an Instant Pot, needs simple instructions, and is interested in trying the types of recipes included.

Thank you NetGalley and Adams Media for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Plenty of variety from this cookbook. It is a great collection of 1 person recipes sure to delight every type of eater, fussy or not. I just wish there were more dish example photos illustrations.
Thank you NetGalley and publishers for this free ARC in exchange for my honest review.

This is an excellent collection of recipes for Instant Pot fans that are cooking for only themselves. There are very few pictures of the recipes, but that gives more space for a variety of tasty-sounding meals and treats, ranging from low calorie to more decadent options.

This is a nice cookbook with a variety of recipes that generally sound very tasty. They tend towards very high in calories and carb-heavy. There are very few photos. I appreciate the inclusion of nutritional information for each recipe, which means I could easily tell which recipes would be best for our family's needs (not many, TBH). There are a number of vegetarian recipes and others could easily be swapped out. It's not designed to be gluten free or otherwise allergy friendly, though experienced cooks could sub for those ingredients too.

I would consider a lot of these recipes bigger than one serving, but I'm a small woman. The cakes were in a 6 inch pan, for instance, and one called for two cups of powdered sugar in the frosting alone. Who eats a 6 inch cake by themselves? Yikes. Most of these recipes are what I'd consider treats rather than healthy meals to live on. The ribs alone were almost 3,000 calories for one serving, and that's without side dishes. Most of the recipes call for lots of carbs, though she throws around the words "low carb" a lot. There are lots of rather opulent dishes -- cajun chicken pasta, lots of cheesecake variations, lots of pastas with cream sauces, etc. They all sound very tasty, heavy on sugar and heavy cream. The author has a spouse and two kids, and I got the feeling most of these dishes were more for "I have a craving" than "I live alone and need easy, healthy food for myself" but it does seem very good for when you want one serving of a treat and they do seem pretty easy for the most part without very many ingredients.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

I think by the time winter ends here in Australia I would have cooked everything in this book!
Bloody brilliant and delicious

Cooking for one can be hard, especially if you want to make a hot cooked meal worthy of sharing. This is why I got an Instant Pot (IP) when they first came out. Though I’m married and I also like to freeze left overs for those nights when there’s literally no time to cook, even then I reheat them in the IP. I was so in love with my IP that I gifted them to family and friends for Christmas one year. While most are married, my daughter is single and was hesitant to use it since it was “So big”. Thus this cookbook is the answer for her and thousands of other solo diners out there.

From breakfasts to dips to dinners and deserts, this cookbook addresses it all with delicious recipes that are worthy of sharing. If this sounds like you, or you were afraid of the “Pressure Cooker” thanks to your Grammy’s warnings when you were little, order yourself an IP, or dust off the one you shoved back in the pantry. There’s nothing to fear and you will wonder how you ever survived without an IP before now.

I got a review copy of this without realising it's built around the use of a special, branded electric slow cooker, the likes of which I have no experience of. Still, I can judge a cookbook – especially when, for example, the breakfast section contains ideas that only use the gadget for soft-boiling an egg. I know whether I'd like a quinoa porridge however it was cooked.

And what I found here was a book that was quite easy to like. It's light on photos, so some novices may not be able to envisage what they're cooking up a lot of the time. But the book has cut all the yack ("I first met this dish when a lonely goatherd from southern Uzbekistan sold me his grandmother's soul, and now I've made it completely different to what it was my kids love it – and the goatherd was a hit at parties until he died of a surfeit of lampreys!") that posher volumes seem to think we need, and just allows for an encouraging word in our ear about the dishes being tasty, healthy and worth our while. Ingredients aren't impossible to source, instructions are easy to follow. It easily covers Italian influence alongside Asian-styled 'fake-out' meals. I really liked the touch of adapting the "chicken and wild rice soup" for when we have left-over, pre-cooked rice instead of raw – such bonuses only make this even more useful. What it isn't is a volume for someone cutting down on dairy – this will raise the price of shares in cheese no end.

As for the gadget, we prefer to use our limited kitchen space on other things, rightly or wrongly. It seems a fine bit of kit, although the different ways of releasing pressure etc would probably cause me more worry and/or mistakes than they might. And the fact it can be used as a slow cooker, and even as a yoghurt former, makes me wonder why they didn't go as far as making it usable for sous-vide cooking. But it does seem to provide easy enough, no-frills home cuisine, and this no-frills, easy book seems a very suitable accompaniment to it. I fully get what it's saying – you don't need a freezer full of batch-cooked soups from a recipe for twelve when you live alone – but often-times a lot of these dishes are good enough they're crying out to be shared. Also, cooking for one means only one thing – no seconds!

A nice idea for a cookbook as there are too few cookbooks for one. This one arrives a little behind the insta-pot craze but still close enough to be relevant.

I tried three recipes (sweet potato casserole, pumpkin yogurt, and sausage and vegetables). They were all tasty if a little on the simple side flavor wise. A lot of the recipes inside are simple and similar to others, but considering the selling point is having individualized recipes, it hits that mark well.

This cookbook doesn’t have that personalized touch that the best cook books do, and it doesn’t have pictures for most of the recipes, but it’s solid and a great addition to a single person’s kitchen.

Overall 3.5 stars. Great concept, some intriguing recipes, but a lot of simple recipes, and some that don’t really require an insta-pot.