Just tried pouring some ginger ale in my lemonade (homemade). 10/10, much better than I wouldn’t thought
Pineapples and pizza. Yeah I said it.
So no joke, I talked shit about pineapple on pizza for years. Then, I can’t remember why specifically, but we had someone over and asked what type of pizza she wanted, and she said Hawaiian. And there was some leftover. I grew up poor, and we do not waste food, so I decided it was worth trying it.
It was amazing. I immediately felt silly for being so against it.
My wife still refuses to try it on principle (she did grow up near NYC, so she has STRONG opinions on pizza).
Not to rag on your wife but New Yorkers have the worst opinions on pizza. If it’s not made in New York in some corner pizza store they say it’s the worst pizza in existence. They get mad that Chicago Pizza exists. I think if they knew Detroit Pizza existed they would explode.
I’ve had New York pizza. It’s mid. It’s fine. It’s ok. It’s not the best pizza in the universe guys. It’s convenient because there’s no place to sit anywhere and you can walk and eat it by the slice. I swear they have some sort of collective Stockholm syndrome about it.
Funny enough, she actually really likes Detroit Pizza. But yes, she thinks Chicago pizza is trash (I tend to agree, I hate the way chicago pizza is made… it’s messy, has too much sauce, and requires a fork which, to me, defeats the point of the pizza).
And I lived in New Jersey for awhile, and the pizza there, with a few exceptions, was some of the best pizza I’ve had (and I’m not talking that wide flat greasy stuff you get at NY street corners, I’m talking the pizza made at the restaurants run by Italians that are about half Italian restaurant, half pizza joint).
I also grew up near NYC. Hawaiian is underrated and everyone should try it at least once.
I’m glad you had an open mind, and didn’t waste food. (We also grew up unable to waste food)
And peach, too!
I have a 200 item list of grazing board foods that I’ve personally mixed and sampled every single 2 and 3 item combination and curated every item to be acceptable to delicious in 3 part combos.
By far the two strangest combos to any guest are the spicy salami and the dark chocolate on baguette bread or the rum dates and stone stone-ground mustard on butter cracker.
The sweet and bitter of the chocolate mixes so well with the oilly spice of the meat, and the baguette bridges the textures to provide a comfortable mouthfeel by soaking it in.
For the second, the vinegar and tang of the mustard heighten the rum without taking away the sweet paste of the dates and the cracker provides enough texture to not feel like you’re eating sauce and enough salt to soften the vinegar and alcohol bite.
Honestly, it’s my favorite dinner even because it’s so much fun to watch people look at you in horror when you suggest they try something, then try it and see that horror melt away into absolute wonder.
I believe this is a multi choose problem. 200C2 is 19,900. 200C3 is 1,313,400. You’ve tried all 1,333,300 combinations? More actually for the items that were tried but didn’t make the cut. I want the list this sounds like a culinary masterpiece
Are you willing to share the curated list? 🤞🏻
Blue cheese and Dr Pepper. The Dr Pepper brings out the sweetness of the cheese and the tanginess of the cheese complements the sour of the soda.
Dr Pepper is the blue cheese of soda, after all.
Blue cheese and grapes is also a fantastic combination. Pretty sure this is well known in France.
Huh. I don’t really drink much soda these days, but when I did, Dr. Pepper was my favorite, and I’ve always enjoyed blue cheese. I’ll have to try that. 2 of my recent-ish favorites:
- Water cracker + soft blue cheese + hot honey
- Ramen + blue cheese
Make your a salami sandwich with the following steps.
- Toast the bread.
- pan fry the salami slices til their a little crispy on the edges.
- spread hummus on the bread once it’s toasted.
- add the crispy salami, some lettuce, and seasoned tomato to your sandwich and enjoy.
People look at me sideways for using hummus as a sandwich spread, but it’s delicious.
This is one of those recipes that I have to stop and ask what’s wrong with the people in your life that they can’t assess hummus, a spread frequently served on breads, with the same eyes they use on any other spread. They wouldn’t think twice if you served them a board with all the listed ingredients as a grazing spread.
Strawberries and black pepper. You’re welcome.
Basically everything sweet with hot seasoning. One of my favorites: Mango with Chili! :-)
Your Hispanic is showing
lol I take it as a compliment, because my country of origin is not known for its kitchen. :-P
it is a compliment XD
One of my favorite grocery store salsas is spicy mango!
Currently I have a spicy pineapple salsa but that’s not as good because it’s “white” salsa, no tomatoes
My toddler insisted on putting pepper on her strawberries the other day.
I laughed and said she was welcome to try, but “start on just a couple slices so you don’t ruin all of them”.
She said it was great, but I didn’t believe her, so I tried it. And then we put pepper on all of them.
Just tried this for the first time after learning about it from your comment. Pretty good! 👍
Sadly, strawberry season is gone where I am and I can’t wait to try this out. This year, i discovered that coriander goes very well with strawberries to make pesto. I ate 10 times more strawberries this year than my previous average.
I’d go one further; strawberry chilli sorbet. sweet strawberry, hot and cold at the same time… perfection
Chocolate and anything spicy.
I remember my grandfather getting chocolate with chili in it gifted for Christmas and tasting it and being like xwell it tastes like normal chocolate" and him overreacting completely about it.
Turns out, the ratio was just that bad. There was barely any chili in the chocolate.
Kalimotxo. It’s red wine and cola in roughly equal parts, to taste. It’s a great way to salvage old wine that’s a day or two past drinkable, especially on a hot day.
I described it once on reddit in the before times, and someone called it a “shit red wine spritzer” and I think that’s kinda apt.
A few weeks ago I poured some cane sugar coke in a half-drunk glass of Port and all my friends looked at me like I was crazy when I said it wasn’t half bad
That tracks, but with port I feel like it’d be super sugary.
Oh for sure. Like a wine/cola syrup
In this same vein, cola and beer in equal proportions with a shot of amaretto tastes like snickers
50/50 Guinness and cola. It’s called a Black Velvet and is indulgent and lovely.
@Lodespawn @EvilBit that sounds like a shortcut to a bad time
The kalimotxo is actually pretty tame; half as potent as wine, so comparable to maybe a pale ale.
Can’t speak for that other madness though.
I thought that said tastes like nickers, lol.
Otoh do not try mixing beer and wine it is awful. Truly truly awful.
Mead and an IPA is great though and called a “Braggot”
That I can believe. I’ve only mixed them in the sense of generally making bad decisions in a night.
In my country we call it bamboo for some reason.
That’s interesting and weird! Guessing from your name, is it Slovenia?
Yup.
A fried egg on top of just about anything
As a kid I remember jam (probably strawberry) and cheese (Cheddar or red Leicester) sandwiches being pretty awesome. For manifold reasons, peanut butter was not something made available to me back then, so that would be the closest our house ever got to that.
I was also a weird kid mixing jam and cheese (even grape jelly and American cheese) on sandwiches to the abject horror of parents and kids alike.
I’ve taken it to adulthood with cream cheese and Peruvian pepper jam (just a light spread) on a savory bagel.
Nowadays, if you “pair” jam and cheese on a cracker instead of bread, you can avoid the weird looks entirely and even seem sophisticated.
Quince and cheese on crackers is a common thing, so jam cheese and bread just seems normal to me too…
Another vote for the cheese and jam! Sweet and salty. I like it in a tortilla.
This is just a poor person’s strawberry cheesecake, I don’t judge.
Roasted cauliflower and chocolate. I like to dust coco powder in the last 3 min.
Raisins and anchovies.
Mushrooms and coffee.
Garlic, chocolate, and coffee.
Wendy’s French fries dipped in their frosty. It was at least a good combination twenty years ago …
Maccies are advertising their fried dipped in their milkshake at the minute. I’d give it a go to be fair. But I don’t like Maccies.
Fuck off cunt it’s Macca’s, not Maccies.
Fuck off cunt it’s Maccies, not Maccas.
Na-na, na, na, na.
You hear that? It’s the macca’s tune disagreeing with you.Maccies thanks you for your service.
Hummus and pesto. Just dump some pesto in your hummus and thank me later. You can buy both, obviously, but you can also easily make both from scratch so it can be super cheap once you have the core ingredients. It’s basically no harder than making a smoothie.
Bonus: basil grows whether you want it to or not, at least in most climates. If you have a spice garden, you kind of have to keep basil from dominating. But it also makes an excellent, cheap gift. When I was younger, I had a basil plant that lived for a few years and got huge and I just brought clippings instead of wine (or whatever) to parties. I saved tons of money and no one has ever been like, “Get the fuck out of here with that fresh basil.”
My friend worked at Subway for a few years and after a while you try weird stuff just to see if it’s good, and one of the best things is an oatmeal raisin cookie wrapped in pepper jack cheese.
Also sharp cheddar on apple pie is a Yankee tradition and really good.
Chicago corn (cheddar popcorn mixed with caramel corn). Sounds weird - is awesome.
Yes! This combo is awesome!
Garrett was our favorite stop on the food tour!
Salmon + roasted Brussels sprouts
I don’t like Brussel sprouts. Not even after they have been selecting them for sweet not bitter over the last 30 years.
But… It is not really surprising that Salmon and roasted Brussel sprouts go good together. I mean this is not an uncommon pairing is it?
That seems like a very normal flavor combo to me.
