Having a roommate can be a most joyous experience. It's nice to have someone to talk to at the end of your day. Someone to go out for a beer with. It's kind of like having a dog, only he or she can talk and you don't have to walk them after dinner.

Having a roommate, however, means sharing a number of things you might not want to be sharing. A bathroom. Perhaps a closet. And, oh yes, a refrigerator.

Having a roommate means that your Chinese leftovers might not make it to breakfast. Those killer fudge brownies your Mom made just for your? Consider them gone.

When you're somebody's roommate, you're often sharing the same food. That can mean making do with some rather incompatible food items to sate your appetite. That's the whole reason for this site.

Based on the book of the same name, Recipes for the Roommate-Impaired, we'll show you a whole myriad of recipes that take four things into consideration:

• Your fridge is mainly full of condiments and little else
• It's probably 1 a.m. at the earliest
• You've got a buzz on
• You need instructions just to make toast

Let Recipes for the Roommate-Impaired be your eyes on this blindfolded journey into the culinary world.