Hi friends! You're listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. I'm Kendra Dachy and I'm

here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that

don't. Today is part two of our Food In a Bowl series. Last week we talked about food

in a bowl base six. How you need contrast more than anything else. And you build that contrast

using four dinner bowl building blocks. Base, protein, toppings, and sauce. If you missed

that episode definitely listen to it before you listen to this one. And today in part two,

we're talking about flavors. There are so many ways to put together flavors because

flavor options are like literally endless. And that's a little bit of why it's hard,

right? When we have so many options it feels overwhelming and we just kind of give up.

Not just with dinner bowls with many things in life, right? So today we're going to distill

flavor down a bit to help you think through how to put together your own dinner bowl.

Okay, so to pair down the options for a dinner bowl it's helpful to start with two things.

An engine and a destination. Your engine is the one choice you know you're definitely

using. It's like something you already have in your house that you want to use. Maybe

it's fresh produce from a generous neighbors garden or it's meat that was on sale that you

need to cook. Your engine can be any of the four building blocks. Base, protein, toppings,

or sauce. But making one set decision for your bowl, it makes the other choices easier.

You just need something that's already there that can drive the rest of the decisions

like an engine drives things. I understand cars very well. And the other thing that's helpful

is your destination. I think the best way to frame a destination is by cuisine.

So let's say your engine is a rotisserie chicken that was on sale. But where are you going with it?

It's Japanese, Tex-Max, Italian, Thai. So a cuisine can be your destination. Or you can use an already

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