A meal is a when you eat something that incorporates multiple food groups.
Lunch, for me, usually consists of lots of salad and sometimes smoked or grilled salmon, tofu, or feta cheese. I make sure to add a lot of greens to my salad. I accompany this with some dal.
One day, the people who work in my kitchen stir-fried chopped Napa cabbage to serve with some meat or fish for their own dinner. I got to thinking: 'What if the cabbage was the most important thing on the plate?'
It's hard to imagine a civilization without onions; in one form or another their flavor blends into almost everything in the meal except the desert.
Protein has been intensely over-represented on the plate. Now, the garden should be the main drag for main courses.
Lunch is the meal where you put carbs in, such as lentils and beans.
Growing up, our meals consisted primarily of vegetables, and then we had small amounts of meat.
The harmony of the luncheon is achieved by a combination of the two main courses which are the focus of the menu.
