I want to talk about foods with the bare minimum ingredients where if you would have added more, it would have been a disservice.
Watcha got?
Edit: dude I got so much love on this post for something so simple, this is a solid community. Thanks for showing up guys
I have a kid with who prefers this sort of thing, so I often try to perfect something with the minimum ingredients.
Bread: flour, water, salt, starter Hamburger: beef, salt, charcoal grill Leek pie: flour, butter, water, leeks, gruyère, cream, salt
I recently started making fried chicken by marinating some chicken thighs in salt, sugar, vinegar brine for a day, coating it in literally just cornstarch, and frying it twice.
I will happily eat complicated food, but I think all the above are excellent and are all about quality ingredients and technique.
Excellent. You may be several steps above my cooking level, but I do love reading it
It helps to be old
Got a question ol’ feller,
What are your like top 10-15 things you get at the store that can be turned into a bunch of different shit?
What’s your basics?
That’s tough. The most versatile things are the basics: flour, milk, eggs, etc. but that’s not very exciting.
I think the trick is to accumulate all that stuff and then find random other ingredients to focus a recipe on.
For example right now they always have Leeks at the market, and they are pretty cheap, so I’ve been making a lot of pies with them.