Research Guides: Adulting 101: Cooking

HCC Food Resources

Heartland's Student Food Share helps HCC students with limited food resources. Please come to Student Counseling Services in SCB 2400 to request a food box. You do NOT have to be a client of Student Counseling Services to request and receive a food box. Our hours of operation are 8:30am to 4:00pm Monday-Friday with extended hours until 6:00pm on Tuesdays. Continuing Ed. and Project Rise students can go to SCB 1000 to request and receive a food box. Any donation for the food share program can be brought to SCB 2400.

Student Counseling Resources

College Cooking

The 5-Ingredient College Cookbook by Pamela Ellgen
Call Number: TX833.7 .E45 2017
ISBN: 9781623158576
More than 100 tasty and affordable 5-ingredient recipes for busy college students College students don't typically have a ton of time, money, or kitchen space to get fancy with their meals, which means good and cheap is the name of the game.
Fitwaffle's Baking It Easy by Eloise Head
Call Number: TX765 .H386 2022
ISBN: 9781681889290
I'm Eloise, known online as Fitwaffle, and welcome to my first book! I've collected 100 of my most-loved and brand-new recipes for amazing cakes, cookies, traybakes, small bites, mug cakes, sweet breakfasts and indulgent desserts made easy!
Meal in a Mug by Denise Smart
Call Number: TX833.5 .S643 2015
ISBN: 9781476798141
Charmingly designed and perfectly approachable, here are eighty simple recipes for delicious, healthy food that require nothing more than a mug and a microwave. For anyone who can't cook, won't cook, or doesn't have the time to cook--but still wants a fresh, delicious meal instead of takeout or packaged, processed food when they're eating alone--here is the answer.
The One-Pan College Cookbook by M. J. Hong
Call Number: On Order!
ISBN: 9781638073093
Publication Date: 2021-10-12
Graduate from instant ramen and make delicious one-pan meals Cooking can be a great way to explore new foods, develop new kitchen skills, and save yourself time and money.

Assorted Cookbooks

How to Cook

Food Anatomy by Julia Rothman; Rachel Wharton (As told to)
Call Number: TX355 .R6717 2016
ISBN: 9781612123394
Get your recommended daily allowance of facts and fun with Food Anatomy, the third book in Julia Rothman's best-selling Anatomy series. She starts with an illustrated history of food and ends with a global tour of street eats. Along the way, Rothman serves up a hilarious primer on short-order egg lingo and a mouthwatering menu of how people around the planet serve fried potatoes -- and what we dip them in.
Prep by Katie Sullivan Morford
Call Number: TX833.5 .M676 2019
ISBN: 9781611806106
A simple guide to one of life's most essential skills: cooking. New to the kitchen? Living on your own for the first time? Don't be intimidated! This useful guide has everything you need to cook yourself real meals with real food.
Tasty Ultimate by Tasty
Call Number: TX714 .T388 2018
ISBN: 9780525575863
150 recipes to help you master the cooking basics, hack the pantry, and make everything from vegetarian go-tos to crowd-pleasing snacks to irresistible desserts.

Vegetarian and Vegan

Broke Vegan: Speedy by Saskia Sidey
Call Number: On Order!
ISBN: 9780600637257
Publication Date: 2022-03-01
With over 100 quick & easy plant-based recipes using supermarket staples along with hints and tips for making vegan meals in no time at all, Broke Vegan: Speedy will have you cooking delicious dishes time after time that save money and save the planet.
The College Vegetarian Cookbook by Stephanie McKercher
Call Number: On Order!
ISBN: 9781646119196
Publication Date: 2020-07-21
Eat green on a little green--150 easy, affordable vegetarian recipes for college students Although you're in college and living on a shoestring budget, you can still eat smart and healthy every day.