The Fewer Ingredients the Better.

            As America’s Cooking Cheerleader, I am creating the Let’s Cook Tonight Movement.  This is a movement of men and women who are cooking for their families and loving it.  They’re loving it because they are enjoying the many benefits cooking at home provides---better health, more family time, and money saved. 

           If cooking is easy and painless to do, more people will become part of the movement.  Part of making it easy and painless is working with as few ingredients as possible.  To someone who doesn’t like to cook or doesn’t know how to cook seeing a recipe with a long list of ingredients is a big turn-off.  Additionally, rare or exotic ingredients are scary to the non-cook.  They also are hard to find and expensive.   

          I believe in ease and simplicity in the kitchen so I created my menus and recipes with the fewest ingredients possible.  All of my ingredients are familiar and can be purchased in a regular grocery store.  Here is an example.  You can find many varieties of vinegar in your grocery store and an impressive (and overwhelming) lineup of vinegars in specialty stores. It’s most cost-effective to stock only one type of vinegar and to reach for it whenever a recipe calls for vinegar.  In my testing, apple cider vinegar proved to work best and deliver the best flavor. It’s not as sharp as white vinegar and not as flavorful as red wine vinegar, yet it gives the acidity I look for without an overwhelming taste.

         If you like to cook with and dress your salad with flavored vinegars then please continue to do so.  If you want just one type of vinegar to keep in your pantry and cook with then apple cider vinegar will work very well.      

Cooking is easier than you think and you and your family are worth the time and effort it takes. 

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