Favorite "unlikely" food combos?
I must be living under a rock, because I just tried a watermelon and feta salad for the first time, and it was delicious! I never would have thought to combine the two, but it worked beautifully.
Fruit/cheese and beyond, what are some of your favorite food/flavor combos that seem unusual but actually create something tasty?
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23 Comments:
Melon (some sort of musk melon that is, not watermelon) and tomato. I made a salad of some perfectly ripe honeyrock melon and heirloom tomatoes recently, on a whim, and I was very pleasantly surprised at the success of the combination.
Nicholas H at 12:57AM on 08/27/07
I agree with the fruit in salad combos. Some other combos I enjoy are:
figs in salad with walnuts and a crumbly salty feta
dried cranberries in salad
balslamic vinegar and strawberries...in salad. I'm seeing a trend here.
And last but not least, an old favourite mine. McDonalds french fries with the soft serve ice-cream. Its dirty and wrong and sooooooo good.
choc_puddin at 5:50AM on 08/27/07
Over on this page you'll find my recipe for Baked Apple Macaroni & Cheese. Oh yeah, that stuff disappears fast!
LunaPierCook at 6:48AM on 08/27/07
Peach ice cream eaten with a hard Pennsylvania Dutch pretzel in place of a spoon. Salty + Sweet = Delicious.
theheadhen at 12:24PM on 08/27/07
Hmmm...I like pineapple and jalapeno on pizza, something about the combination of sweet and hot is very good. Of course, I also like fruit salsa on fish, which is a similar idea.
lo82070 at 12:45PM on 08/27/07
Another crazy flavor combo I had this weekend was fried goat cheese medallions made with rosemary, served over spring greens with raspberry vinaigrette. The rosemary was unexpected and subtle but added another element of flavor.
LiveToEat at 1:15PM on 08/27/07
peanut butter, cheese (cheddar usually) and onion sandwiches - made with white bread (toasted optional).
eating chocolate with potato chips (tayto cheese and onion are best).
mondaybox at 1:33PM on 08/27/07
mondaybox, you just made revealing my favorite sandwich a little easier-- grilled american cheese/peanut butter/banana/fig jam. It was a sandwich at a grilled cheese restaurant in my neighborhood, and I tried it under the assumption that it might be weird enough to work... and it absolutely worked. The restaurant since closed, but I now always have a jar of fig jam in the fridge.
fornaio at 1:46PM on 08/27/07
Braunschweiger on raisin bread. I know it sounds weird...but it is so delicious!
Cat at 2:23PM on 08/27/07
Mayo and banana sandwich on white bread.
BammerSlammer at 3:44PM on 08/27/07
Twizzlers that have been soaked in a can of ice cold diet coke (or several cans, as the case may be with my diet coke addiction). The Twizzlers get a little softer and more flavorful (mmm, artificial flavors and red#5...) and also double as straws!
ChristineB at 3:56PM on 08/27/07
Like they do in Holland - french fries and mayonnaise!
Jeana at 4:01PM on 08/27/07
Most people turn up their noses when I put salt on a wedge of watermelon but that is the only way I saw my "southern" parents eat it.
While working in a homeless soup line a learned to cut the top off of an orange and shaking some tabasco sauce down into it before sucking out the juice and pulling it apart to eat the pulp.
czken at 4:10PM on 08/27/07
Cottage cheese with red grapes. Cottage cheese with fresh spinach and mixed greens (sometimes I eat cottage cheese on salads instead of dressing).
Chau at 4:49PM on 08/27/07
two odd combos:
a green olive & salad dressing (the white/mayo-looking kind) sandwich
a peanut butter, tomato and sugar/splenda sandwich
and my mom likes peanut with mustard sandwiches, but i draw the line there
squishy16 at 4:58PM on 08/27/07
Bacon and chocolate, ala the Vosges bacon chocolate bar. Heaven. Also, Wendy's fries dipped in a chocolate frosty.
Really, now that I'm thinking about it, pretty much anything salty with chocolate. I'm easy to please.
kcp118 at 5:47PM on 08/27/07
crispy chocolate chip cookies, lite on the chips, dipped in sweetened ice tea.
coolname at 7:13PM on 08/27/07
These are all really interesting...
I guess I would have to go with watermelon and feta cheese (but I know that isn't uncommon for some.)
Chew on That
Chew on That at 7:37PM on 08/27/07
Peanut butter and jalapenos on crackers.
Kerosena at 7:42PM on 08/27/07
Goat cheese and really good dark chocolate. Seriously.
Jj6407 at 11:07PM on 08/27/07
my roommate in college always told me peanut and roast beef go really well together in a sandwich. it's actually not half bad!
wing at 11:50PM on 08/27/07
sliced banana and sour cream in a bowl...eaten with a spoon
Bosmer at 10:32AM on 08/28/07
Ketchup on mac-n-cheese, ketchup in mashed potatoes & gravy, ketchup & mayo on french fries...hmmm, ketchup on just about anything, I guess.
kendraburt at 8:46AM on 09/01/07