What is the fewest ingredients required to make a pizza? A flat bread crust with tomato sauce and cheese on top is definitely a pizza. But what about a flat bread crust with just cheese on top? Or how about a flat bread crust with just tomato sauce? Are these still pizzas? What about a flat piece of pan-fried mozzarella cheese with tomato sauce on top? Is that a pizza?
I will explore these kinds of questions in a minimalist cookbook. I want to reduce classic dishes down to the most barebones ingredients. Once you do that, you can create simple dishes with the finest ingredients.
Suppose I decide that a minimalist pizza is a flat bread crust with tomato sauce and cheese on top. I could create an amazing pizza using only the finest flat bread crust, the freshest organic tomato sauce made from garden-grown tomatoes, and fresh homemade mozzarella cheese. By reducing quantity of ingredients, you can focus on increasing quality of ingredients.
Also, after years of cooking for my family, I’ve observed that the overall difficulty and hassle of cooking is directly proportional to the number of ingredients used. By cooking with minimal ingredients, cooking becomes more fun and less of a pain.
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