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 a similar one too! Very good. Non citrus fruit + funky cheese, + nuts is always a great combo.
My favorite kind of pizza is a bacon lettuce tomato, with a mess of mayo to top it off. Chefs kiss*
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.
I love adding fish sauce to my stir fry with eggs, this sounds like it would work similarly
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 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 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.
I discovered the vinegar as a condiment with vinegar salt potato chips. Then I found out the fries. Sooooo good.
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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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
Pickles and anything
Pickles and more pickles
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.
Avocado in chicken soup. Add to the bowl, not the pot. You’ll never eat it without again.
Also cilantro
Y’all are just making sopa de tortilla now
Oh god. You’ve just summoned them….
PrayingTheyHaven’tHeard🤞
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.
Water melon + bacon.
I was about to start my shift, but knew I would probably get hungry before lunch, so on my way out to the back deck I stopped via the galley to get some form of breakfast. I like bacon, and I like water melon, so I grabbed some of each as a snack on my way out. But then I needed to free up my hands, so I just put it all in my mouth, and the combination of sweet and salty was absolutely amazing.
Cinnamon raisin bagel. Toasted with some thick slices of aged cheddar and a nice hotsauce. I like valentina, but siracha is good too.
One night we were making oatmeal butterscotch chip cookies, and I dipped a Frito corn chip in the cookie dough.
We decided to only make a half batch of cookies and used the rest for Frito dip.
Yes. We were high.
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.
