Three ingredients, one big taste

Last night, I made a dish that’s so simple, but tastes sophisticated… cheese ravioli (frozen from Fino’s) with brown butter and sage. I love when those fragrant leaves get kind of crunchy when you let them bubble in the butter.

I used to have a few books that promised great meals with three or five or seven ingredients… why, oh why no even numbers?? But I found that those involved opening a lot of cans.

Does anybody have a good source for quick/elegant dishes made with a minimalist approach?

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Ginger

Can you share specific directions for this dish? I’ve got a sage plant growing out of control, but I don’t really know what to do with it!

Neil

Leslie, you might take a look at this. Almost all of the ingredients called for are fresh rather than canned.

Bread, Tomato, Garlic
Quick Cooking with 3 Main Ingredients
By Jill Dupleix
Soma Books, 1999
Paperback, $27.00
Photography by Geoff Lung
160 pages, color
ISBN: 1-57959-022-5