Whether you're regularly preparing meals for just one of you, or you do it occasionally, you probably run up against the same problem, which is sameness. 

There is an ease in preparing the same foods on autopilot:  when I'm on my own, I invariably make a chopped salad.  It's pretty quick, it cleans out the produce bin, and it's filling, especially when I add things like artichoke hearts, salumi, yesterday's chicken or grilled salmon, some tiny piccoline olives and chunks of eggplant I prepared earlier in the week.  I mix up a basic vinegar and oil dressing with some lemon juice to sub for the vinegar and a good sprinkle of sea salt, and voila:  meal for one.

I would like to mix it up a bit, and think sometimes, why not a great grilled cheese panini sandwich, some ahi tuna or an anything-goes stir-fry?  It may be a laziness factor of always preparing the same food when it's just me, but shouldn't we treat ourselves at least as well as we do the others we regularly prepare food for? 

A new dish, served at the table, rather than eaten at the counter, with a big chunk of artisan bread and a nice glass of wine or sparkling water with a slice of cucumber in it doesn't take much longer, and it's a fine little reward at the end of the day.

When you're cooking for one, what's your go-to meal?  Or, is it always something different?  And, if it's always the same dish, is that your true comfort food?