By Stacey LittleSouthern Bite
I’m going in deep here for a second, so y’all bear with me. Have you ever thought about how we, as humans, strive for perfection to the extent that we make things infinitely more complicated? It’s like our desire to be perfect negates any practical consideration. We’re always told that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. But how often do we actually take that direct path?
I think sometimes that we’re afraid of simple – we’re afraid it might make us look unintelligent or unskilled.
Sometimes we even give certain parts of our lives their own language, you know … to make things complicated. When was the last time you went into Starbucks and ordered black coffee? No, it was a venti, skinny, caramel, macchiato, whatever. See? Complicated.
Now, on my best day, I try to be the opposite. I want things to be simple. I need things to be easy. My dad always taught me the K.I.S.S. principle – Keep it simple, stupid. In fact, when I was writing my book, I went back at the last minute and removed the word sauté from nearly every recipe that had it in the instructions. To sauté something literally means to cook it quickly in a little fat. To cook it. So rather than say sauté (which I think might intimidate an inexperienced home cook), I just simply wrote “cook.” See? Easy.This cheesecake is the perfect example of something that is simple, that can be made infinitely more complicated. Google a recipe for cheesecake and you’re sure to find methods that call for you to cook it in a water bath to keep it from browning or tell you that you’ve got to stand on your head while reciting the alphabet backwards for the last 14 minutes of the cook time to keep it from cracking. Ugh. Complicated. I’m here to tell you, this is not one of those recipes.
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