KITCHEN PRACTICE 3 — Adding a Fourth Course
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Chapter: Italian Cookery 10 — Capstone: A Multi-Course Italian Meal

TASK
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Add a simple fourth course of your own choosing — a contorno (side
vegetable) or a simple dolce (dessert) — reasoning through where it
fits into your existing backward timeline.

WHAT TO DO
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1. Choose either a contorno (a simple side vegetable dish, typically
   served alongside or just after the secondo) or a dolce (a simple
   dessert, served last).
2. For a contorno, consider something quick and low-effort that
   doesn't compete for stove space with the braise or primo — a
   simple green salad dressed with your good finishing olive oil
   (Chapter 1), or blanched green beans tossed with garlic, are both
   reasonable, low-effort choices.
3. For a dolce, consider something that can be prepared well ahead
   of time and simply plated at the end — fresh fruit with a drizzle
   of honey, or a simple bought or pre-made treat, keeps things
   realistic without adding a whole new baking project on top of an
   already-busy day.
4. Add your chosen course into your Kitchen Practice 1 timeline,
   reasoning explicitly about when it needs to be prepped and served
   relative to the other three courses.
5. Cook and serve the extended, four-course meal.

WHAT TO EXPECT
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- A contorno should slot in naturally around the secondo's own
  timeline — since the braise needs very little active attention
  while it simmers, that same window works well for prepping a
  simple side.
- A dolce, if kept genuinely simple, should require almost no extra
  timeline pressure at all — it's meant to be the easiest addition,
  prepared well ahead and simply served at the very end.
- If you find your chosen fourth course is creating real timing
  stress against the other three, that's a useful, realistic lesson
  in itself — not every addition to a meal is free, and recognising
  which additions cost real time versus which are nearly free is
  part of planning a bigger meal well.

WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER
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This exercise deliberately hands you a new planning problem without
a worked example to follow, testing whether the backward-timeline
skill from Kitchen Practice 1 actually transfers to a genuinely new
situation rather than just being memorised for this specific menu.
Reasoning through where a new course fits — rather than being told
exactly where to put it — is the real test of whether you've learned
the planning principle itself, not just this one meal's own recipe.