Always looking for new food ideas.
Had a pizza in Spain yesterday - pear, walnut and gorgonzola
Was absolutely stunning
I used to work at a pizzeria that had fig, pistachio, and arugula dressed with truffle honey. It was very popular.
Okay now THAT is weird. How did they prepare the pear? Big slices or little?
That has always been a pretty classic combo on cheeseboards. Probably that is why they came up with the idea to put it on pizza. My favorite pizzeria has it on the regular menu too. They make thin slices of halved pears for it, so the pear is not raw after baking.
That’s…actually a good point. Maybe not as weird as I thought.
Not that weird, just relatively uncommon. I can recommend it, try one if you can :)
Jazz up a quesadilla by adding a little thin sliced apple or pear. Good ol super market cheddar is an excellent cheese choice.
I love that sweet and salty. Sea salt caramel. Prosciutto fig pizza. Chocolate pretzels.
I’ve had similar pizzas in the US. “Sweet pizzas”, so to speak, were all the rage in the mid 2010s. More often, they were branded as flatbreads.
I’ve made pizza topped with a brandy peach sauce (peaches sautéed in brandy, nutmeg, butter), bourbon blueberry syrup, and taleggio. Even better is peaches, arugula, and brie.
My favorite kind of pizza is a bacon lettuce tomato, with a mess of mayo to top it off. Chefs kiss*
I’ve had a similar one too! Very good. Non citrus fruit + funky cheese, + nuts is always a great combo.
Peanut butter on hamburgers. Really nice contrast especially if you also include pickles
This is the one I came here to post. Tried it at a brew pub I liked, I figured they wouldn’t steer me wrong.
It’s a bit messy once the burger starts really melting the peanut butter, but it reminded me of satay w/ peanut sauce.
No pickles for me though, I can’t seem to get with the taste of cucumber in any form I’ve tried.
pizza with jalapeños and pineapple, the spicy-sweet was pretty good
Add garlic and it’s my “to go to” pizza since nearly 25 years
My favorite pizza toppings
This feels like a more widely available of habanero mango combination
Not unusual but not common is fish sauce on your fried or scrambled eggs.
I have also seen someone added fish sauce into their chili. Not a lot, just a splash for the whole pot. It works.
I use it instead of Worcestershire sauce in my gravies.
Do not use Worcestershire sauce as embalming fluid!
Shut up, Dadboat, you’re not my real dad!
There’s fish in Worcestershire sauce, iirc…
I hadn’t known that, until reading the fine print…
And thus, most Bloody Mary mixes as well.
I do this. All the umami.
fish sauce and a little cornstarch (optional) in your scrambled egg mix and then dump it into screaming oil for 30 seconds and you get a basic thai omelette. Sooooooo good with sriracha.
I love adding fish sauce to my stir fry with eggs, this sounds like it would work similarly
I rather go for soy sauce and a bit of starch in the beaten egg to make really thin umami omelette type things.
French fries with vinegar. Ok, not unusual if you’re British, but delicious even if you aren’t.
Why the fuck did we colonise 90% of the world if you’re not putting vinegar on chips? Did we teach you nothing?
Conquer half the world for spices.
Use absolutely none of them in authentic British cuisine.
Just the way His Majesty intended.
We put ketchup on our “French Fries”, governor.
Ketchup has vinegar
Fun fact: Ketchup is any table sauce that is made from a vinegar base. We just think of the default as “tomato ketchup” but there can be other kinds! Mushroom ketchup used to be the default.
Vinegar is missing quite a bit from Ketchup, though.
I discovered the vinegar as a condiment with vinegar salt potato chips. Then I found out the fries. Sooooo good.
I am the only one in my family who likes vinegar on fries.
I do prefer apple cider vinegar over regular vinegar, but I’m more than happy to slather any available vinegar I can on.
Well, malt vinegar.
A can of condensed tomato soup, 1 can of milk, pad of butter, 1/2 cup(or more) instant rice. Lets soup come to near boil, turn off heat, add rice., cover and let steep for about 8 minutes.
I sometimes will toss in tomato soup instead of water when using a rice cooker when I’m sick and just want carbs and salt and liquid. It’s adequate.
That sounds good too.
A can of milk?
Yes, empty the can of condensed soup into a pot, then fill the empty can with milk instead of water then empty than into the pot.
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Vanilla ice cream and/or raspberry sorbet topped with pitch black, salty sweet licorice sauce. (common only in Denmark afaik)
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“Birnen, Bohnen und Speck”, a stew made from pears, green beans, bacon and a herb called satureja/savory. The pears in this one are a certain old breed, that is pretty hard and sour before cooking. (This is a local delicacy from the city of Hamburg in northern Germany)
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Watermelon and feta cheese, especially during hot summer days (common in mediterranean countries)
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Pickled cucumbers and feta cheese (those are eaten as a combo around the black sea afaik)
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Avocado in chicken soup. Add to the bowl, not the pot. You’ll never eat it without again.
Also cilantro
Oh god. You’ve just summoned them….
PrayingTheyHaven’tHeard🤞
Y’all are just making sopa de tortilla now
I sort of accidentally discovered that when dining at the local cantina.
The restaurant did something neat in serving an appetizer of guacamole on top of pico de gallo. For whatever reason I decided to dump the whole thing in to the bowl of spicy, chicken-black bean soup I was having. The contrast in flavors, and cooked vs fresh, spicy vs cool was an instant game changer. Indeed, I never looked back from there.
A Puerto Rican coworker turned me onto hot chocolate with cheese in it. I believe the traditional method is basically just to put some cheese in the cup and you end up with a melted glob of cheese to eat with a spoon as/after you drink it. I’ve played around with that as well as actually incorporating the cheese into the drink itself, melting it all together on the stove.
Kind of gets you some of that well-tested sweet/salty/savory combo. I dig it in a Mexican hot chocolate with some cinnamon and chili powder.
I believe the traditional cheese is edam, I’ve tried that as well as cheddar and a few other cheeses, they all seemed to work pretty well, try it at your own risk if you go for anything too funky
That sounds like a food crime…
That’s kind of the point of this thread though isn’t it? Weird food pairings that sound crazy but actually work if you’re brave enough to try them
Elsewhere in this thread you’ll find a lot of sweet/salty/savory pairings, one that’s particularly relevant is adding chocolate to chili. Lots of chili will end up getting served with some shredded cheese, or some sour cream (sour cream is kind of next door to cheese when you think about it) so not too far off from a Mexican hot chocolate without the meat.
Cheese is dairy, and there’s no shortage of milk and chocolate creations, like hot chocolate itself
Cheese can go with sweet things just fine, plenty of great fruit and cheese pairings, cheese and honey, etc. (if you haven’t tried it, some warm apple pie with some sharp cheddar cheese on it is great, also sounds crazy to some people but if you ever do a cheese fondue odds are you’re going to be dipping apple slices into cheese)
You’re probably even familiar with a couple pairings of chocolate and other cheeses, things like chocolate chips in cannoli, chocolate cheesecake
When I was in high school, we had a class potluck. I accidentally got some cheese dip (Rotel and Velveeta) on one of my chocolate chip cookies.
I figured, “Why not?” and tried it. Surprisingly good.
MMM I used to put choco krispies (think chocolate rice krispies) into my quesadillas. That shit was fire.
Pickles and anything
Pickles and more pickles
Grapes in a chicken/tuna salad sandwich. Totally different experience with the diced grapes
Apples too. But I’m not sure this is unusual. Even Arby’s sells a chicken salad sandwich with grapes and apples in it.
Dang, did not know that, I’ve only been to Arby’s once
i like to dunk left over fries in vanilla icecream.
my coworkers thought i was mad when they witnessed me doing that.
Back in the day when Wendy’s served steak fries I used to dip them in my frosty.
Aye, this is the classic way to eat out at the red-haired chick’s place.
I don’t go to McDonalds much any more, but I’d get fries and a vanilla shake to do that with, as a treat!
I always get a chocolate Sunday and dip the fries in.
I’ve tried that, not my thing but some people swear by it
I like to do it with ‘fresh’ fries. The hot fry and cold vanilla shake/ice cream combo is amazing to me.
This might sound wild… But buttered chicken/curry is a fantastic dipping sauce for pizza.
Order a pizza, order some curry, eat the whole pizza… It’s so good
Fuck that sounds decadent 🤤
Seriously! You gotta try it! We did it with both cheese and pepperoni pizza and both were some of the best things I’ve ever tasted.
Mexican flavoured penang curry
Wait, that sounds really good. Can you elaborate on the specifics?
Pepperoni and pineapple pizza. The sweet and tangy go sooooo well together!
Oh yeah! I also add jalapenos too.
I enjoy a good Hawaiian pizza. But this combo is way better.
