Just tried pouring some ginger ale in my lemonade (homemade). 10/10, much better than I wouldn’t thought
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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!
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.
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.
Are you willing to share the curated list? 🤞🏻
Half pure orange juice and half cola.
Sounds similar to “Spezi”, a mixture of cola and orange soda, which is quite popular here in Germany.
Orange soda is very different from pure orange.
Extra tip: use pulpy pure orange so you get little bits floating around in the brown drink. It adds extra texture. It looks absolutely disgusting, but it tastes great.
Fuck u/spezi
Oh wait, sorry, knee-jerk reaction. Carry on.
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!
A fried egg on top of just about anything
PB & J, I mean yeah, tried and true, but it’s odd that peanuts and berries go well together when both are squished 😅
Wait til you try PB and cheddar
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
Otoh do not try mixing beer and wine it is awful. Truly truly awful.
That I can believe. I’ve only mixed them in the sense of generally making bad decisions in a night.
Mead and an IPA is great though and called a “Braggot”
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.
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.
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.
Whiskey and black licorice.
Right after too-salty popcorn, this is one of my go-tos when watching a movie–especially with a peaty scotch.
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.”
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?
Macaroni and cheese and pretty much anything.
Tuna Mac: Tuna?
Tuna and any grilled vegetables?
Poverty Mac: Pork and beans?
Pork and beans AND chopped up hotdogs?
Spaghetti Mac: Leftover spaghetti sauce?
Taco Mac: Leftover taco meat?
Get the velveeta Mac and cheese for extra luxury.
Mac and cheese with chopped hotdogs was a staple of my childhood. Used to drown it in ketchup to make people squirm.
Hotdogs in mac and cheese is awesome! I cut the hotdog lengthwise in quarters and then into tiny bits, then cook it up in a pan for a few minutes to get the texture before adding it to the mac and cheese. Chopped bacon is also fantastic in mac and cheese.
Adding ketchup sounds awful though.
Greatest comfort food recipe ever:
Mac, Cheese, Peas, and bacon.
The recipes online are all nonsense. They either mix the bacon in or put it under the mac and cheese!
White cheddar cheese sauce with macaroni. That goes into the casserole dish.
A layer of peas on top of the mac & cheese.
2 pounds of bacon cooked crispy and crumbled on top of the peas. From the top you shouldn’t see anything but bacon.
Put it in the oven and cook it till it starts bubbling.
You have forgotten the greatest: chili Mac.
It sounds like a classic, the name had that ring to it, but what do add to the Mac? Left over chili? What kind of chili?
