Match made in heaven?

[Carlovski]

Some foods just go together so well that you can't imagine them apart.

What are some of the less obvious ones you have discovered?

Some of mine are

• Bacon and peas - Not that original, but nothing brings out the sweetness of peas like crisp, salty bacon.
  
• Pasta and potatoes - The double starch thing does work. Atkins? Bah!
  
• Roast Chicken and Mustard
  

[curlywurlyfi]

red chilli and chocolate

bacon and marmalade

pork and fennel

feta and honey

[Carlovski]

red chilli and chocolate

bacon and marmalade

pork and fennel

feta and honey

Pork and fennel- oh yes, but bacon and marmalade?

I can see I will have to experiment!

[Gifted Gourmet]

but bacon and marmalade?

Isn't that similar to honey-baked hams? sweet yet salty ....

[petite tête de chou]

Raspberries and black pepper

Lavender and bittersweet chocolate

Sparkling wine and rosemary

Not unusual for many, many people but still pretty new to me!

[Jon Tseng]

banana and bacon

honey and just about any red meat you can think of. plus poultry.

J

[curlywurlyfi]

Pork and fennel- oh yes, but bacon and marmalade?

I can see I will have to experiment!

ooooh Carlovski, you have a treat in store.

go here if you don't believe!

the bacon butty debate

Fi

[Carlovski]

I think we may need a new topic - Is there anything that bacon doesn't go with?

[curlywurlyfi]

I think we may need a new topic - Is there anything that bacon doesn't go with?

toothpaste?

[Carlovski]

go here if you don't believe!

the bacon butty debate

Fi

You appear to be contradicting yourself

I hesitate to inject a dissonant note into this hymn to brown sauce, but... FECH, you people are all WRONG. brown sauce lives only to serve the scrambled egg and, somewhat curiously, the cheese souffle. it has no place in a bacon butty. the only correct thing to put on a bacon butty is... MORE BACON. I will have no truck with abominating them with brown sauce.

Now, sausage sandwiches, on the other hand, get slathered in English mustard and a layer of Ma Kirkpatrick's Seville orange marmelade. oh yes.

Fi

I'm a brown sauce man myself.

right, I'm off to get a Bacon Butty.

[Carlovski]

Keeping in the theme

Bacon Butty (With Brown sauce) an overly milky, hot oversweetened tea.

From a tea bag.

In a mug.

[jsolomon]

Single malt scotch and pecan pie

[fifi]

Oreos and beer.

Pickled jalepenos stuffed with tuna and sharp cheddar.

[cdh]

Peaches and black pepper

Watermelon and chevre

[johnnyd]

Pears with Balsamic

...blew my mind the other day

[PoetsGirl]

Doritos and cream cheese.

[StInGeR]

bacon and maple syrup

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

[andiesenji]

bacon and avocado (to continue the theme)

prosciutto and melon

peaches and shaved ham

apples and Kasseri or Caerphilly cheese

ditto pears

Barbecue potato chips (rippled) with large curd cottage cheese (my favorite secret snack)

crisp waffles topped with chili

cheese blintzes with habanero salsa, ooooooohh!!

[curlywurlyfi]

You appear to be contradicting yourself

I hesitate to inject a dissonant note into this hymn to brown sauce, but... FECH, you people are all WRONG. brown sauce lives only to serve the scrambled egg and, somewhat curiously, the cheese souffle. it has no place in a bacon butty. the only correct thing to put on a bacon butty is... MORE BACON. I will have no truck with abominating them with brown sauce.

Now, sausage sandwiches, on the other hand, get slathered in English mustard and a layer of Ma Kirkpatrick's Seville orange marmelade. oh yes.

Fi

whoops. actually, I do sometimes (shhhh) put marmelade into bacon sandwiches.

but I maintain my position on brown sauce.

[jackal10]

Heston Blumenthal in his Q&A http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showtopic=12012 gave a list:

Strawberry and coriander

Snails and Beetroot (the flavour molecule that contributes to the earthiness in each of these is the same. It also exists in spinach and baby corn)

Chocolate and pink peppercorn

Carrot and violet (ionone is the main pairing molecule here)

Carrot and coriander

Mango and violet

Pineapple and blue cheese (careful as the cheese needs a certain ketone level)

Caraway and lavender are surprisingly interchangeable

Cauliflower (caramelised) and cocoa

Liver and Jasmine (similar sulphur compounds)

Cooked cheese (like parmesan and gruyere) and honey (with a slightly chestnut character)

Banana and parsley

Harissa (chilli paste) and dried apricot

He discovered these, like his famous Caviar and Chocolate, by searching chemical analysises for similar flavour molecules.

You can also find antagonists with no flavours in common, such as Coffee and Basil - horrid!

[Pickles]

I think we may need a new topic - Is there anything that bacon doesn't go with?

toothpaste?

Orange juice, too. Don't like that taste of bacon and OJ. And OJ and toothpaste...pretty nasty as well.

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Food and Lavender --seems like it would be too perfumey, but it works so well with lamb and stews with Herbes De Provence

I add black pepper to just about all my sliced fruits

When I was a young lass, I only drank apricot sours, and I would gross out my father when I (habitually) ordered french onion soup at our favorite restaurant and sat happily sipping alternately from soup and coctail. I liked salty and sweet...and still do. Didn't seem disgusting to me at all.

[Ovenfrenzy]

Peanut butter and orange juice.

Lamb and soy sauce.

Cranberries and chile peppers.

[tanabutler]

Cinnamon and mustard powder on a chicken breast, discovered when on that fat-burning (cabbage soup) diet for a week.

[naguere]

Christmas cake/fruit cake with strong Cheddar cheese

Strawberry jam/ or other with strong cheddar cheese made into a simple sandwich (white bread and butter)

[Carlovski]

On the fruity theme

Powdered ginger and melon