Just tried pouring some ginger ale in my lemonade (homemade). 10/10, much better than I wouldn’t thought
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? 🤞🏻
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
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.
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
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.
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.”
Whiskey and black licorice.
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.
Half pure orange juice and half cola.
Salmon + roasted Brussels sprouts
Vanilla ice cream with good quality evoo and kosher salt.
I had a hankering for vanilla ice cream and wasabi
I enjoyed that for a while and would like to find a dairy free substitute to try again
Orange chicken with a side of chocolate milk. I stand by this, even though none of my friends are willing to give it a shot.
Might not be that weird, but brie and pepperoni go together like they were made for each other.
Brie, bacon, redcurrant jelly on a crusty baguette. Heaven.
Bacon and watermelon
