Cooking for one

Ok, so its no great secret that I like to cook, but when you're the only one home for dinner, where is the inspiration? I've done catering for 300 people, that's easy, cooking for one, not so much. When you have an audience if you will, to taste and experience you latest culinary endeavor, the feedback is what drives you.  Seeing people enjoy the food, hearing the comments, is what you crave.  Cooking for yourself- hmmm... completely unfulfilling. "Hey girl, that dinner was fabulous", "you really must give me your recipe"; somehow there is not much satisfaction.
With my husband working second shift these days, dinner doesn't happen much.  I've become a chicken finger rollup freak(thank goodness for Trader Joe's) or cereal for dinner convert.