Kitchen Garden Forum

When all those lovely home grown vegs arrive cooked on your plate, how do you eat them?

Do you eat one mouthful at a time of a single selected vegetable to fully enjoy its flavour or do you weave your way around the plate picking up a little bit of everything on your fork for a combination of flavours?

I was (politely ! ) watching somebody eat the other day, who just ate one forkful of an individual component at a time i.e. some carrot, then some potato then a piece meat and I pondered my own eating habit which is to normally wander round the plate, pick up a little bit of everything and then enjoy all the flavours together.

Do you think our eating habits reflect something about our personalities? Or do we just pick up our eating habits from childhood and then perpetuate them?

I normally have a bit of everything, unless something is very hot, then it gets left a while....

At first time of tasting for any variety I carefully select that item alone, I want to experience the taste.

So when there is a combination of new varieties I will taste each in turn.
Then and only then it's every veg for itself as I try multiple tastings.

Hi,

Similar to pa snip - when it's new, I always like try on its own. Although Thinking about it, I tend to generally not mix my veg on a plate, but will add a sauce/ Gravy. No idea why....

Although, we eat a lot of pasta, curry, chilli, pie or oven type dishes so general it's all mixed together anyway - we always try and include something home grown in everything we make. Even pizza. We like the Italian style of eating and regularly have a side dish of something green (beans, kale, spinach... ) no matter what the main dish is.

Pawty

If it's something new it gets the raw taste and the cooked taste separately, then I kind of figure what it might go with, then it is the mash up on the fork to check I was right. I kind of overdo the veg when available so have several alongside the protein source - but agree some sauce or gravy is the catalyst to marry it together - & not too thin & watery!

Westi

I've never thought about this before, but I seem to eat each separately. I like to taste the different flavours. Obviously stews, quiches etc are different as you cook them to amalgamate and complement the flavours.