Food Combinations

[Mark Sommelier]

Both peanut butter and jelly and peanut butter and banana sandwiches sound utterly bizarre to me (although to be fair, I've never tried either, but the just sound so unappetizing!).

As a child, I used to dip my peanut butter sandwiches in my Lipton's instant chicken noodle soup and have fond memories of the combination, although not fond enough to attempt to recreate...

Peanut butter, banana, mayo....... and the secret ingredient:

BACON!!

[Chad]

Peanut butter and crispy bacon. I love it. My kids gag. Of course I gagged when my grandfather ate peanut butter and sardine sandwiches .

My kids also think that bananas and mayo are nasty, but it was a childhood favorite that I still indulge in every once in a while.

Nastiest food combination I can think of (and would never eat)? Celery with peanut butter and raisins. What twisted mind created this abomination? Ew.

Chad

[guajolote]

I like pickles in my tuna salad

[sherribabee]

I like pickles in my tuna salad

Mme too...lots of em...but dill only.

None of those sweet kind. *gag*

[Joy Fellows]

Hello all you food loving people out there, and greetings from England!

I'm new to this site and I've thought of a question I'd like to ask all of you. I love to eat and I love to cook and don't often replicate the same dish, as I love to experiment with recipes.

However......

I also have this shameful little secret that I am prepared to share with you providing you all share your own...........

What junk do you fix just for yourselves when no one else is around?

OK here are mine.

Just occasionally, the only thing that will satisfy my appetite is Dairylea (a white processed cheese - a bit like Velveeta) spread on white toast and then put under a grill until the top starts to blacken and the cheese underneath is melting- hot enough to burn your mouth.

Another time I may cook Rigatoni and then coat it with butter before placing in a heatproof bowl and topping with shop bought breadcrumbs. Under the grill again until the top is toasty and crunchy THEN cover with instant gravy made up really thick.

Please tell me that I'm not the only who enjoys eating utter rubbish like this just occasionally?

I look forward to reading your replies - if you dare!

jodda.x

PS, Just in case anyone was wondering, although female, I am not pregnant- I used to drink homemade french dressing then!!!!

[zoe b]

although I haven't had one in years--fried baloney sandwiches--my mom made this--on white bread with yellow mustard and pickles.

also--and I guess this isn't too weird--Ants on a Log--celery stuffed with peanut butter with raisins on top=--combines crunch, salty unctuousness and sweet bitiness.

[Alchemist]

At work I order the mashed potatoes with home made ranch dressing on them.

Kraft Mac and sleaze with Herdez salsa.

[Jaymes]

A lot of mine seem to involve peanut butter...

A saltine smeared with peanut butter and topped with a slice of ripe garden tomato.

A wedge of cold apple smeared with peanut butter.

A sandwich with mayo, banana slices and peanut butter.

And for some reason, I can't eat a PB&J without a couple of spears of cool, crisp dill pickle alongside.

I also like cottage cheese with a little of that icky, bottled "French" (what an insult to the French) dressing drizzled over, although I can't stand the stuff on regular salads.

Sadly, it seems that I've passed my fondness for all these treats on to my children.

Edited August 4, 2006 by Jaymes (log)

[jsmeeker]

peanut butter and bacon sandwiches.

[alligande]

crisp (chip) sandwiches. plain prefered but salt and vinegar can also be good, I have had this taste since been introduced as a kid.

[MissAmy]

Cold meatloaf sandwich. More than once, I have made an entire meatloaf just so I could have leftover sandwiches later.

Grilled cheese. Must be Kraft American singles, must contain caramelized onions.

[deltadoc]

buttered toast with peanut butter melted on it dipped in a glass of Nestle's Quik chocolate milk!!

Chili sauce made with Mrs. Wage's Chili Sauce mix which we can, and then I open the jar and drink it down like V-8.

A certain brand of imported Italian pizza sauce which I eat out of the can with a fork!

A plateful of Sourdough bread cubes (crust removed) smoothered in homemade mastriciano sauce (unheated).

3 bottles of Simi Cabernet Savaugnon instead of dinner~

doc

[Joy Fellows]

"3 bottles of Simi Cabernet Savaugnon instead of dinner~  "

Well Doc,

I'm with you in that your choices sound suitably weird, although some of the gear you eat is unknown to a humble Englishwoman like me.

However, nothing wrong with 3 bottles of Cabernet Sauvignon instead of dinner - where's the 'odd' in that?

Keep 'em coming - I'm loving reading these!

jodda.x

Edited August 4, 2006 by Joy Fellows (log)

[foodite]

One of my weird food combos is McDonalds french fries dipped in their soft serve cone

One thing that a friend of mine loves doing is eating a banana with a Kraft singles... I don't get it at all..

[SuzySushi]

Take 2 pieces of toast (preferably an eggy bread like Portuguese/Hawaiian sweet bread or challah). While they're hot, carefully arrange chocolate chips on one piece of toast, spacing them about 1/2" apart. Top with the other piece of toast and smoosh together. (Mock pan au chocolat.)

And one I hardly ever have any more. Take a bowl of sour cream (straight from the fridge). Top with cubes of 1 hot, peeled potato. Eat. (I must've been a Russian peasant in a previous life.)

[Edited for spelling.]

Edited August 4, 2006 by SuzySushi (log)

[monavano]

I've gotten strange looks when I put ketchup on my mac n cheese. The cheap kind, not homemade.

I also love to dip cold leftover chicken in ketchup.

[Jenny McClure]

Crisp and grated cheddar cheese sandwiches.

Toast with raspberry jam & grated cheddar.

Cheese & banana toasties or peach, chicken & chesse toaties.

Pretzles & hummous

[johnsmith45678]

I had some roommates would loved to eat "sandwiches" made of two Chips Ahoy chocolate chip cookies with slices of ham in between. Ugh, that's just weird...

[Mikeb19]

These are throwbacks from my childhood and teenage years. Grew up poor (still am pretty poor, though not as bad as back then), so ate many things that would probably horrify people around here. Heck, as little as 2 years ago these were still staples... And to think, at work I was cooking with foie gras, caviar, truffles, then after work would go home and eat this stuff....

- Cheddar cheese (the cheap yellow kind) melted on top of soda crackers, then covered in hot sauce

- Grilled cheese sandwich, dipped into canned tomato soup

- Boiled spaghetti, hot sauce and parmesan 'seasoning' - maybe some cut up hot dogs thrown in if we could afford it

- Ground beef, cream of mushroom soup (in a can of course), mixed together and eaten on top of toast

- Plain white rice with a can of broth poured over top (to make a soup-kind of dish), plenty of hot sauce added

Occasionally I still eat these things just as a reminder of the good 'ol days...

Edited August 4, 2006 by Mikeb19 (log)

[dianalane]

White bread, mayo and potato chip sandwich. I grew up eating these... and every once in a while I indulge.

Strawberry jello and cool whip then homemade blue cheese dressings on top.

[GourmetLight$]

This is a combo of the How you Eat your Oatmeal thread and this one: after preparing my oatmeal with raisins, brown sugar and half/half, I top it with chunks of heavily-buttered, very crispy white toast. I try to incorporate a piece of toast in every bite of oatmeal!

Cheers,

[petite tête de chou]

Two come to mind. Torn pieces of white bread dipped (soaked) in Lea and Perrins Worchestershire sauce. Hot, pickled yellow peppers soaked in soy sauce with chunks of leftover steak and extra sharp cheddar, eaten until tears run down my cheeks.

[Alchemist]

Haagan daaz coffee ice cream, soft, then dip in Nacho cheese Doritos. Best eaten as a teenager while, um, keeping the glocoma at bay.

[andiesenji]

Large curd cottage cheese (has to be the large curd because it is less salty), possibly "thinned" with just a tiny bit of extra-heavy cream, so that barbecue potato chips, either Wavy Lays or Ruffles ( unless I can find the Michael Seasons Thick and Crunchy Mesquite barbecue chips) can be dipped into the cc so one gets a bite of cottage cheese with a bite of barbecue potato chip.

Sourdough bread, sliced thin, spread with sour cream and layered with sweet onion slices sometimes topped with crumbled bacon, possibly with very ripe tomato slices but the tomatoes have to be full-flavored.

Alternately, topped with my homemade bread and butter pickles.

Sliced strawberries tossed with salt-glazed and roasted pecans.

Crepes spread lightly with orange marmalade and sour cream, rolled into cylinders and dipped into ginger syrup. (must be very sparing with these because I am a diabetnik)

[Raynickben]

I love to put sour cream on my cheeseburgers.

But as far as food combos go I am in heaven when I have buttered popcorn and fig newtons together...like giant trail mix!