Energizing a breaker box with a portable generator

My house is off the grid, and I have no plans to connect to the grid. I'll be building a good-sized solar-electric system next summer, but within the next few months I want to install a breaker box, wire the house, and use my Yamaha EF2000iS portable inverter generator to energize the breaker box.

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The general plan is to install a weatherproof receptacle outside the house and run conduit from there to the breaker box I'll install in the basement of the house. I would also run a ground wire from the breaker box to a metal rod driven into the ground next to the house.

For purposes of this discussion, all the wiring will be 110V AC. (I have a small solar-electric system that supplies 12V power to my refrigerator and to a couple other things, but that system is completely separate from the system I want to discuss in this thread.)

When I want to energize the breaker box for the 110V AC system, I would carry the generator outside and plug it into the weatherproof receptacle.

The questions I have are:

• Can I just buy the same kind of breaker box that a person would use in a grid-attached home (for example, perhaps I would buy it at Lowe's or Home Depot)?
  
• What is the best type of weatherproof receptacle to use?
  
• What kind of wiring should be used for the run between the weatherproof receptacle and the breaker box?
  
• What kind of wiring should be used for the ground wire?
  
• My generator has two 110V AC output ports, so can I energize both legs of the breaker box, or do I need to just energize one leg? (NOTE: MY HOUSE HAS NO NEED FOR 220V/240V AC.)

Thanks for any and all advice!

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Energizing a breaker box with a portable generator