One-Ingredient Cookbook

It all started when Robin tried a noodle dish at an Indian restaurant. We decided the noodles were just a vehicle for tomatoes and peppers. I said that these were two of his favorite foods. But no, tomatoes are good but bell peppers are not a favorite. I asked him what his favorite two basic ingredient foods were. He said salmon and red peppers. I thought about it and decided mine were cheese and chocolate.

Then I decided those were pretty highly processed and tried to think of my two favorite unprocessed foods. Maybe sweet potatoes and pasta. Oops, pasta is heavily processed. Rice is too boring to eat by itself. Apples? No, bananas.

I've noticed there are some cookbooks that have nothing but five-ingredient recipes or even three-ingredient recipes. So I thought a one-ingredient cookbook would be funny.

Apples

Ingredient:
1 apple per person

Directions:
Uh. Just start eating them.

Some foods could still use some preparation, though, like grilled mushrooms (cook them on the grill).

So, here are some foods that could be in a one-ingredient cookbook:
most fruit
some vegetables (such as carrots, celery, and, if you're in Georgia, onions)
grilled mushrooms
sushi
peanut butter on a spoon (at least the kind of peanut butter made with only peanuts)
grits? cream-of-wheat?
rice (maybe too boring)
milk
steamed milk
boiled eggs
scrambled eggs (though I do not want to clean the pan if no fat was used)
fruit juices

We decided baked potatoes don't belong in the cookbook. They seem like one-ingredient foods, but they aren't. I really don't quite like pinto beans or popcorn or corn on the cob well enough without salt. And some things could be one-ingredient if you got lucky and the other ingredient was floating around nearby, like wine or cheese.