The Important And Dynamic Maindish-To-Sides Ratio

Humor me and pretend you're sitting down to lunch now, and before you sits a plate with the following three items: chicken breast drenched in some fucking creamy 'italian' sauce, plain white rice, steamed green beans cooked enough to still be slightly crisp--only slightly.

Ok thanks for your time. bye!





Oh wait, so the question goes thusly: If you were to eat these items, how would you manage your ratio? Do you just shovel into your mouth whatever your flashing synapses move your hand toward in a random thrust of anarchy? Do you try to eat everything in an equal ratio so that your last bites consist of equal amounts of each item. If so, would you eat all items at the same time, or would you eat the main dish before the sides, or eat the sides before the chicken breast? Do you save the best for last, or eat the best first? Do you mix everything together into a giant slop and gulp it down? Further, do you have to eat a forkful of each item in succession, or can you eat two forkfuls of green beans before moving on to the rice.

So perhaps your answers would change depending on the meal, but I feel like your basic structure or routine or way of eating could permeate throughout all your meals.

I finished my green beans too early during lunch, and it bugged me. I'm usually better with my ratio management. I was left with a bite size amount of chicken and a small bit of rice. I ate the zesty chicken first and finished the rice last to sort of even out my palate.

Why'd you read all of this? You might as well answer now.

 

I would first pour a bit of the creamy italian sauce on the plain white rice, then I would proceed to eat all of the green beans, then proceed to eat all of the white rice, then eat all of the chicken breast. I eat food 'linearly and orderly' to a fault I guess you could say, always going for the sides before the entree and always eating one item at a time.

It's interesting because in many other areas of my life, I do not think I strive for such an orderly approach.

 

whichever one is the best I'd probably just eat more of that lol, at least thats how i used to be. getting better though.

 

I wouldn't eat the white rice, that's so racist

 

it depends on the meal, but in most cases i eat one thing at a time, going from worst to best. in this meal, it would be beans, then rice, then chicken.

 

i'd hire a new chief. those sides are needlessly bland, and the cream sauce on the chicken would BE a CREAM sauce. (like an alfrado) i'm kind of semi-alergic to cooked tomatoes.
the rice would have some sort of cream sauce too, or be some kind of pasta instead of rice. possibly a clam linguini.
greenbeans are possible, french cut with a brown turkey gravey, or possibly a beans and spazil. but more likely something egplant, bell peppers and green onion tops.
the chicken would more likely be a lemongrass herb garlic and basil. the sauce belongs with the starch or vegi side or both.

now with that fixed up, yes, random starting order, with no two bites following each other from the same dish.
and with something that rich, maybe just mineral ice water with a spritz of lime to drink with it.

 

as long as you don't wash your hands 376 times an hour, you should be fine.

 

it really depends on the meal and how it is composed.
Many dishes, if thought out well, have elements that compliment one another and are meant to be tasted all together in one bite, the perfect bite if you will.

but generally I have no set ritual or procedure for eating, but do tend to try and get a bit of each element in each bite.
in the above example, I would definitely be eating the chicken and rice together, with some beans in between each chicken/rice bite.


"the perfect bite".....LOL

I guess my Master Chef addiction is showing....but I certainly have learned a lot watching those shows.
Master Chef Australia is the best of the lot.