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Ricardus
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Via Martin Lewis' Moneysavingexpert site I found the suggestion that you can make a non-alcoholic Pimms substitute by mixing balsamic vinegar dressing and lemonade. It is actually surprisingly palatable (albeit mixed to a ratio of about 1:10), although it doesn't taste like Pimms.
I am quite fond of Marmite chocolate cake, which tastes like salted caramel. It's very hard to persuade other people to try it, though.
In large parts of Europe it's not uncommon to mix red wine with Coca-Cola (this is called kalimotxo in Spain and 'mushrooms' in parts of Central Europe). British people seem to think this is a vile idea (admittedly I believe it was originally invented to disguise the taste of wine that had gone sour), but it's no different in principle from sangría.
What other unlikely combinations have people found that taste nice?
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Doublethink.
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Marmite and marmalade together on toast taste like sweet and sour.
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Until I tried it, the combination of peanut butter and jam (or "jelly" as the preserve-challenged might call it) seemed weird and sickly and a bit alien. But its actually quite nice.
The so-called "chocolate cake" we had at school dinners when I was a kid was improved by salt.
I accidentally put a little salt on some grapes last week. Better than you'd think.
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M.
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The classic one is strawberries in balsamic vinegar.
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Doublethink.
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Bacon and maple syrup ?
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Butterscotch Angel Delight and tinned prunes. Just heavenly ![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif)
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L'organist
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Strawberries, lemon juice and black pepper - much better than cream, especially after a heavy meal.
Hot toast with cream cheese and marmite (or Gentleman's Relish).
Choux buns stuffed with a mixture of sour cream, sardines and black pepper.
Gin, lemonade and a handful of finely chopped mint.
And always make Pimms with ginger-beer.
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Doublethink.
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Weirdly this thread has just made me hungry for Thai food, I have no idea why.
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Ricardus
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Originally posted by Doublethink:
Bacon and maple syrup ?
Mmmm I could believe that ... Maple syrup is sort of smoky, isn't it, and I usually eat bacon with brown sauce, which is sort of sweet in a weird way ...
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Doublethink.
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Its a common American thing I think, pancakes, bacon and syrup.
Sort of similar to salted caramel in a way.
[ 13. April 2014, 12:31: Message edited by: Doublethink ]
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I used to go out for Dutch pancakes in the days when there was a Dutch pancake restaurant in the vicinity. The pancakes were huge. I often had cheese and ham/bacon and in the centre of the table there was always a large jar of syrup. Prompted by my Dutch friends, I followed their custom of putting some syrup on the savoury pancakes and never looked back. It's quite wonderful.
I also sometimes like to drizzle a little syrup into a Danish Blue sandwich. It works beautifully too; Danish Blue can be just rough enough to need that mellowing where other blue cheeses don't.
These types of threads tend often to be about sweet-and-savoury flavours together, and I'm betting that some of you may initially have hesitated over trying Chinese sweet-and-sour for the first time, or duck with orange/plum sauce, or mackerel with gooseberry sauce, but they're all wonderful.
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mousethief
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Shrimp and refried beans.
Fabulous combination I would never have thought of if I hadn't been trying to fast in the Orthodoxical manner. (Shrimp counted as vegetables in the brains of the ancient church fathers who made up our fasting rules. I have a lot of thoughts about that which I'll leave be.)
BTW, The idea of peanut butter and jam being a disgusting food combination boggles my American brain. That's ubiquitous brown-bag school lunch fare. "Goes together like peanut butter and jelly" (which here means clear jam, not gelatin) is an actual saying here.
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No one ever believes me, but I'll give it a go anyway: peanut butter and Miracle Whip (a mayonnaise substitute which won't go south on you while it sits in your lunchbucket). Especially good served on whole wheat toast.
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Originally posted by Doublethink:
Bacon and maple syrup ?
Doughnut with maple icing and crunchy bacon bits. Port Alberni, BC, 12 April 2014.
It was described by the person who tried it as 'an experience'. (I just had the plain maple one, which has supplied my sugar rush requirement for the next fortnight).
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Ariel
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Speaking of doughnuts, they were selling doughnuts filled with egg and cress and cheese and tomato in my local supermarket recently.
Makes a change from jam, I suppose.
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Bacon and chocolate donut at Lynn Canyon Park cafe near Vancouver.
Sublime! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Peanut butter and celery.
Peanut butter (heated in the microwave to make it runny) and vanilla ice cream.
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Waffles made with bits of cooked sausage in the batter, topped with maple syrup.
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Augustine the Aleut
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Puréed red beets in chocolate cake as a substitute for sugar-- it is astonishingly good and deepens the chocolate flavour.
I have not tried coca-cola barbecue sauce but did use a ginger-ale lemon poppyseed cake recipe as an experiment when I realized I had no baking powder handy and it almost worked (I cut out the sugar, given that soft drinks are basically sweet fizzy water). These are both treasured approaches in the southern US.
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Beets in chocolate cake is the origin of Red Velvet Cake.
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Peanut Butter and Jelly (often Welch's grape jelly, a byproduct of the Christian Temperance search for communion wine) is as Mousethief said, the canonical school lunch brown bag sandwich.
Variations add banana or marshmallow fluff, a.k.a. a fluffernutter.
Something which sounded odd to me but is wonderful is prosciutto and melon.
Another combination that I've made a standard summer relish/salad is sliced ripe nectarines, lemon juice and chiffonade of fresh basil.
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My older sister and one of my aunts like to eat sliced tomatoes covered with mashed potatoes. I've never gotten up the nerve to try it, but my sister says they are quite tasty. One of my aunts used to make something she called chocolate gravy, I think it was originally an Oklahoma thing. She would melt butter, add flour, cocoa powder and sugar, then milk, cooking it until it thickened. Then they would eat if over what we call biscuits here in the USA. When I was a child I loved to put ketchup on macaroni and cheese.
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Peanut butter on fishsticks.
(A theme is emerging on this thread of peanut butter and whatever.)
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Sardines and marmalade on toast. Usually for breakfast. If the sardines are not salted, add salt, not the same without it. It's like my little tincan friends are swimming across the bread and into my tummy.
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Fish and sweetness does sound truely disgusting.
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Mr shrew adores cheese and chocolate orange sandwiches, microwaved. I refuse to try this....
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moonlitdoor
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plain chocolate digestives with HP sauce.
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Enoch
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Marmalade goes very well with sausages.
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Not sure why I am reading this - it makes me feel quite sick.
MAybe something about the facination of the truly awful... ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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The Rogue
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Cheese and jam. I was introduced to it by a Church of Scotland minister.
My family think it is disgusting but they have never tried it.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Enoch:
Marmalade goes very well with sausages.
I don't see why not. Red onion marmalade sometimes features on menus as an accompaniment to meat and pates. The more tangy orange type could work well with some sausages.
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Originally posted by Enoch:
Marmalade goes very well with sausages.
That makes excellent sense! Never tried this, but I will.
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Cream cheese and lemon curd.
Wensleydale and marzipan.
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Huia
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Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
Peanut butter and celery.
Even better if you add raisins.
My mother used to make is marmite and walnut sandwiches.
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L'organist
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I've a friend who swears by Wholemeal toast, buttered then raspberry jam and topped with mashed sardines.
And of course fried bread is the best base for bitter marmalde.
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This butcher makes pork, leek and marmalade sausages, and very good they are, too.
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Originally posted by Huia:
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Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
Peanut butter and celery.
Even better if you add raisins.
That's what we had as kids. It's supposed to be called "ants on a log," but my mom, who's probably as squeamish about that as she knew we kids were (especially me), always called it "bumps on a log."
I liked it as a kid, even though I actually don't care for any of the three ingredients anymore.
I've never tried this, but someone up the thread mentioned jam and cheese, which reminded me that many people eat apple pie with cheese on it. (I'm not much of an apple pie fan, and putting cheese on it sounds just awful to me, but it's a well-known combination.)
When I was a kid, I had a recipe for a chocolate zucchini cake. That was delicious!
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Doublethink.
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Originally posted by Mrs Shrew:
Mr shrew adores cheese and chocolate orange sandwiches, microwaved. I refuse to try this....
On that point, philidelphia on double chocolate chip cookie makes insta-mini cheesecake.
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Gee D
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Originally posted by The Rogue:
Cheese and jam. I was introduced to it by a Church of Scotland minister.
My family think it is disgusting but they have never tried it.
When you think about this, it's really just a variation on the more usual (at least here) combination of cheese with a range of pastes - quince, fig and so forth.
As for sausages and marmalade - again, think of the now inevitable cranberry sauce with turkey, sauce bigarade with duck (another that's a bit too common), cumberland sauce with various cold meats. Many chutneys are jams with a sharp edge to them.
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I used to make a 'chocolate mousse' using canned pumpkin and cocoa. (...and cinnamon, and a few other things.) It was very tasty, counted as a vegetable for the kids, and easy to make.
I think mashed sweet potatoes would work, too.
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Originally posted by Drifting Star:
Cream cheese and lemon curd.
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My favourite topping on a bagel
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Peanut butter and crispy American style bacon on toast. Having it for dinner tonight, perfect for cold crappy weather.
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ArachnidinElmet
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Originally posted by Enoch:
Marmalade goes very well with sausages.
We often eat this or similar in the Arachnid household. I've just had pork belly with homemade rhubarb and ginger jam for tea.
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Originally posted by Drifting Star:
Wensleydale and marzipan.
This is why Christmas cake always needs Wensleydale. The slightly salty tang takes the edge of the sweetness. It also works with parkin.
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mousethief
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Originally posted by Doublethink:
Fish and sweetness does sound truely disgusting.
Several of our local Thai restaurants make a crispy salmon with a sweet sauce. It's fabulous.
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Originally posted by teddybear:
When I was a child I loved to put ketchup on macaroni and cheese.
Now I know why I never grew up - some things are too good to leave behind.
Enough Marmite to hide the butter - on granary - covered by a proper slice of mature cheddar and topped with a generous amount of apple sauce!
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My lovely bride doesn't much care for it, but one of my favourites is Marmite and butter on low-carbohydrate toast!
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I love sweet and sour salmon mixtures and there's the classic sole Veronique, sole and grapes in a creamy sauce - but Dover sole and bananas are truly disgusting together.
Peanut butter and beansprout sandwiches
Peanut butter and banana sandwiches
Marmite and lettuce
Marmite and cheese - to make pinwheels in pastry
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Uncle Pete
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Originally posted by Doublethink:
Its a common American thing I think, pancakes, bacon and syrup.
Sort of similar to salted caramel in a way.
Maple smoked bacon is very common in Canada. And quite nice too, if I recall my carnivorous days properly.
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Our butcher had some law salt but maple smoked bacon recently - it went very well wrapped around a piece of roasting beef. I don't know if it was smoked with maple chips or had had some syrup in the cure.
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Originally posted by Doublethink:
Bacon and maple syrup ?
More-or-less the national dish of my adopted country and yes - it's delicious, especially when accompanied by a couple of nice fluffy pancakes and a fried egg.
Someone mentioned strawberries and pepper - also delicious (think of it bringing out the sweetness, as it would on tomatoes), but I'd add a generous pour of cream (and maybe blackberries and raspberries too).
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