If I can only teach you one thing, dear readers, please let it be this: The best ingredients require the least fussing around with. You don't need tall plates with a million flavors. The best ingredients will speak for themselves. I like to take something absolutely perfect - a tomato, or zucchini, or carrot - and start with salt only, then move on from there. Take these potatoes, for example - these are the red thumb potatoes from Arbor Hill Organics (you didn't think I was lying about the insides being pink, did you?). Wash and scrub gently (don't let the peel scrub off!), boil in heavily salted water, drain, add a little good olive oil, some sea salt, and a few grinds of black pepper. Heaven. P.S. Did you know that 100 grams of potatos supply 33% of your daily iron intake? Neither did I.
