The lamb I made last night had more than 4 ingredients:
Lamb Olive oil Salt Pepper Paprika Oregano Thyme Rosemary.
The pita bread I made yesterday had more than four ingredients:
Flour Sugar Water Salt Yeast.
The tzatziki I made had more than 4 ingredients.
Whole fat greek yogurt Garlic Salt Cucumber Lemon juice Dill Mint
It was delicious, by the way.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pedantic
So you had seasoned lamb, bread, and yogurt with cucumber. Good for you. (I don't recommend the sugar though)
Close. I made gyros from scratch.
My point is that basic recipes commonly have more than four ingredients in them. It's not the number of ingredients in a dish that we should worry about. It's what those ingredients are. I completely agree with the second and third point.
The sugar fed the yeast in the pita bread, by the way.
The difference is between main ingredients and seasonings. I shouldn't have to explain this.
Example: If you completely left out the olive oil, salt, pepper, paprika, oregano, thyme and rosemary, you would still have had a meal of lamb. Plain, true, but a meal. But if you'd left out the lamb, you just be eating the contents of your seasoning shelf. See the difference?
Btw, where did you get lamb this time of year? It's seasonal. Can't get it here.
Unless it was frozen. In which case, you only punish yourself. I can add nothing to your suffering.
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