Dinner or Dessert in Two or Less Ingredients.

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I was actually inspired by another message board, to ask this question. But you know, you can make a pretty bitchin’ vegan sherbet by tossing frozen bananas in a food processor. Don’t quote me on that one though, because I seem to recall you have to put the bananas in a zip lock bag first (I had a recipe for banana pops as a kid).

Anyway, what do you all have to say? Dinner or Dessert in two Ingredients or less? I am thinking kind of vegan, as I said. And I think you or whoever is the author would really be skillful if you had one for soup. How do you make soups in 2 and - ingredients? And yes I know you can just toss a steak on the grill. So none of that. That’s cheating;).

Thank you in advance to all who share:).

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Do we have to count salt/pepper and cooking oil/butter in the list?

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I would say no. But hey, challenge yourself. Exclude that too, if you want:).

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Dinner (vegan) Boil cut pasta in salted water and toss with a can of rinsed small white beans. Lightly drain the pasta so some of the cooking water clings. Stir, so that some of the beans break open and get creamy while others remain whole. Finish with liberal grinds of pepper.

Dessert (non vegan) Hull large fresh strawberries and pipe whipped cream (either unsweetened from homemade or sweetened from a can) into the center of the berry.

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Dessert: Pie and ice cream. That’s two ingredients.

:smiley:

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Dinner: Special K, milk

Dessert: Cap’n Crunch, milk

:wink:

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I know a guy who eats buttered noodles for dinner a lot. 2 ingredients - butter and pasta.

I imagine you could make a lot of sherberts or sorbets. Frozen melon or berries or whatever and a spoonful or two of sugar or honey and blend it up.

Strawberries dipped in chocolate.

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Two or less I don’t know anything about. Now if you had asked me about two or fewer…

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You would know as much since english uses less and fewer interchangeably for count nouns but only less for mass nouns.

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My coworker showed me this one earlier in the month: Take a date, remove the pit, and add a walnut where the pit had been. Eat and repeat.

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Take a date, remove the pit, add cream cheese.

Open a can of mango pulp, mix with buttermilk: Mango Lassi.

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Dessert: Cheese and apples. Preferably a chevrot and a SweeTango.

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3-4 pound beef roast, liquid from a large jar of pepperoncinis. Crock pot low for 9 hours. Shred with 2 forks, done.
2 ingredients. You can complicate the recipe, but you don’t have to.
(ETA: For sandwitches you’re going to want to add rolls. And the peppers you saved from the jar. And mozzarella. And on…)

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I would say “ingredients” is a count noun. They’re in a list you can count. You know, like grocery items in the “ten items or fewer” lane?

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Breakfast:

Fage yogurt
Honey

Lunch:

1 ripened goat cheese
1 small baguette

Split the baguette lengthwise, shmear the goat cheese all along its length.

Dinner:

Pink beans baked slowly for 3-4 hours, wrapped up in a
Flour tortilla

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Steak and Lawry’s Garlic Salt

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Correct. Ingredients is a count noun so either less or fewer can be used.

This recipe has fewer ingredients than I remember.

This recipe has less ingredients than I remember.

This bowl has less cookie dough than I remember.

*This bowl has fewer cookie dough than I remember.

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Sorry, didn’t read carefully. I don’t think your rule is the only one.

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Last night, my lovely cooked winter squash, with butter on top, and marinated fish pan fried. Does that qualify?

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Beat me to it, although I substitute cake for pie. I’ll just add:

Popcorn + butter. (Add salt only if needed) A perfectly lovely dinner.