If let's say your main course is a beef roast, chicken pasta, lentil dhal, a stuffed pork, etc;
- How do you usually pair your meals with appetizers, soup, wine or beverage, and dessert?
- Furthermore, what shouldn't you serve with a certain meal?
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closed as not constructive by rfusca, Aaronut♦ Mar 3 '12 at 21:15
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It depends too much on preference and type of cuisine. Some very general, by no means true in any particular area, aside from the obvious: taste, would be color, contrast in physical properties, balance of health. For instances, red meat usually goes with red wine, white meat with white wine. Sometimes also true for soup, red vegetable soup before steak or ribs; a white clam chowder before a fillet of fish or lobster. Sometimes red wine with chocolate cake and white wine with cheese cake. Not always true, but I suspect color could be an optional indicator. Contrast: You probably won't serve cheese cake following fondue or rocklet. Between appetizers, main course, desert etc., there should have some physical contrast - serving a creamy soup before a beef stew doesn't sound right. Coke, Beer or carbonated drinks may pair well with pizza, but would kill an appetite for steamed white rice. Not an answer..but some thoughts too long to be a comment. |
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