Eat your heart out, Barefoot Contessa. This ham-and-egg nest is a recipe from Paula Deen’s Southern Cooking Bible; could breakfast get any simpler? So pared-down, you could do it in your sleep. I’m thinking of other brilliant, two-ingredient dishes that are actually spoiled by the addition of anything more. Tomatoes Provençal make the cut: two halves of a juicy tomato grilled with just a heaping helping of herbed bread crumbs on top. Iceberg wedge with blue cheese dressing? Ah, yes (the bacon bits people insist on sprinkling on is bringing coals to Newcastle, really). Strawberries and cream…perfection. Baked Camembert on a toasted slice of baguette…caviar on toast points…smoked salmon with a spritz of lemon juice…raw oysters with mignonette sauce. A steamed artichoke with drawn butter. One wonders why one extends oneself to slaving over a dish with more than two ingredients.
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