Right now, simple cooking means depending on what's already in your cupboard – and adding a few finishing touches to make your dish sing ‘Simple’ is a problematic word, especially when it comes to cooking.
If I suggest that a particular recipe is simple, I just have to stand back and wait for the onslaught of complaints. I wrote a recipe for ‘simple’ roast fish with a relish of black olives, anchovies, garlic and herbs a few years back (it was for an American newspaper) and got complaints that this required you to chop ingredients, to get things – too many things – out of cupboards.
What was wrong, the moaners demanded, with roast fish and a squeeze of lemon? Well, nothing, but only the most inexperienced cooks need a recipe for that.
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