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In fact, I have trouble counting past ten with my shoes on. But....
Out of curiousity, I watched that new FN show, "Five Ingredient Fix." The premise is, you can cook "simple" gourmet meals using only five ingredients.
Now five ingredients doesn't strike me as a particularly low number. But it gets worse. Herbs, spices, and other flavorings are, apparently, not counted as ingredients. Extrapolating out, I would guess that something like a bechamel would only be counted as one (the host made one dish in which she combined cream with creme fraische and counted it as one ingredient). So, for one of her dishes, her 5-count became 8 when I did the counting.
So now I'm wondering if I'm the only mathematically challenged cook around here. Or do you agree that five ingredients, when you leave out herbs and spices, and the individual components of complex blends, is actually a rather high number.
Out of curiousity, I watched that new FN show, "Five Ingredient Fix." The premise is, you can cook "simple" gourmet meals using only five ingredients.
Now five ingredients doesn't strike me as a particularly low number. But it gets worse. Herbs, spices, and other flavorings are, apparently, not counted as ingredients. Extrapolating out, I would guess that something like a bechamel would only be counted as one (the host made one dish in which she combined cream with creme fraische and counted it as one ingredient). So, for one of her dishes, her 5-count became 8 when I did the counting.
So now I'm wondering if I'm the only mathematically challenged cook around here. Or do you agree that five ingredients, when you leave out herbs and spices, and the individual components of complex blends, is actually a rather high number.