Always looking for new food ideas.
Water melon + bacon.
I was about to start my shift, but knew I would probably get hungry before lunch, so on my way out to the back deck I stopped via the galley to get some form of breakfast. I like bacon, and I like water melon, so I grabbed some of each as a snack on my way out. But then I needed to free up my hands, so I just put it all in my mouth, and the combination of sweet and salty was absolutely amazing.
Grapes in a chicken/tuna salad sandwich. Totally different experience with the diced grapes
Apples too. But I’m not sure this is unusual. Even Arby’s sells a chicken salad sandwich with grapes and apples in it.
Dang, did not know that, I’ve only been to Arby’s once
pizza with jalapeños and pineapple, the spicy-sweet was pretty good
This feels like a more widely available of habanero mango combination
My favorite pizza toppings
Add garlic and it’s my “to go to” pizza since nearly 25 years
Cold watermelon soup with anise and cracked black pepper.
It was the appetizer to a meal that included duck breast smoked with lapsang souchong tea.
All of ot was outstanding.
Had a pizza in Spain yesterday - pear, walnut and gorgonzola
Was absolutely stunning
I used to work at a pizzeria that had fig, pistachio, and arugula dressed with truffle honey. It was very popular.
Okay now THAT is weird. How did they prepare the pear? Big slices or little?
That has always been a pretty classic combo on cheeseboards. Probably that is why they came up with the idea to put it on pizza. My favorite pizzeria has it on the regular menu too. They make thin slices of halved pears for it, so the pear is not raw after baking.
That’s…actually a good point. Maybe not as weird as I thought.
Jazz up a quesadilla by adding a little thin sliced apple or pear. Good ol super market cheddar is an excellent cheese choice.
I’ve had similar pizzas in the US. “Sweet pizzas”, so to speak, were all the rage in the mid 2010s. More often, they were branded as flatbreads.
I’ve made pizza topped with a brandy peach sauce (peaches sautéed in brandy, nutmeg, butter), bourbon blueberry syrup, and taleggio. Even better is peaches, arugula, and brie.
I’ve had a similar one too! Very good. Non citrus fruit + funky cheese, + nuts is always a great combo.
My favorite kind of pizza is a bacon lettuce tomato, with a mess of mayo to top it off. Chefs kiss*
I love that sweet and salty. Sea salt caramel. Prosciutto fig pizza. Chocolate pretzels.
I made a chef salad at work which usually comes with just ranch.
I added a sweet Thai chili sauce to it and it was honestly really fuckin good. The sweetness from the chili sauce really brought out all the regular flavors of the salad and ranch
Youve heard poutine which is fries with cheese and gravy. Next time try fries wth cheese and salsa.
I’ve had that and it’s incredible
I’ve been looked at weirdly for dipping pretzels in mustard.
Isn’t this the standard way to eat pretzels?
I mean it was always normal for me, I also dip them in ranch and have been looked at weird for that too. Idk man. I got downvoted for answering the question haha.
Yeah, I’d say it’s 50/50 on whether a pretzel gets served with mustard or cheese in my experience, and I almost always try the pretzel when it’s on the menu. Sometimes you get both. Assuming we’re talking soft pretzels. Hard pretzels, idk.
Both
To be fair, mustard is good on most things.
Pepperoni and pineapple pizza. The sweet and tangy go sooooo well together!
Oh yeah! I also add jalapenos too.
I enjoy a good Hawaiian pizza. But this combo is way better.
Chicken Shack Broasted Potatoes with their Cole Slaw mixed in.
It’s so good, it’s the main thing I get there, it’s better than the chicken.
It’s like going to Red Lobster and just ordering the cheddar bay biscuits.
I think my cousins maybe made me try this as a joke when I was younger but hear me out…
Toast. With mayo. Sprinkled with chocolate powder.
I don’t eat it anymore because I’m a grown up or whatever but I still get cravings for it sometimes.
A Puerto Rican coworker turned me onto hot chocolate with cheese in it. I believe the traditional method is basically just to put some cheese in the cup and you end up with a melted glob of cheese to eat with a spoon as/after you drink it. I’ve played around with that as well as actually incorporating the cheese into the drink itself, melting it all together on the stove.
Kind of gets you some of that well-tested sweet/salty/savory combo. I dig it in a Mexican hot chocolate with some cinnamon and chili powder.
I believe the traditional cheese is edam, I’ve tried that as well as cheddar and a few other cheeses, they all seemed to work pretty well, try it at your own risk if you go for anything too funky
When I was in high school, we had a class potluck. I accidentally got some cheese dip (Rotel and Velveeta) on one of my chocolate chip cookies.
I figured, “Why not?” and tried it. Surprisingly good.
MMM I used to put choco krispies (think chocolate rice krispies) into my quesadillas. That shit was fire.
That sounds like a food crime…
That’s kind of the point of this thread though isn’t it? Weird food pairings that sound crazy but actually work if you’re brave enough to try them
Elsewhere in this thread you’ll find a lot of sweet/salty/savory pairings, one that’s particularly relevant is adding chocolate to chili. Lots of chili will end up getting served with some shredded cheese, or some sour cream (sour cream is kind of next door to cheese when you think about it) so not too far off from a Mexican hot chocolate without the meat.
Cheese is dairy, and there’s no shortage of milk and chocolate creations, like hot chocolate itself
Cheese can go with sweet things just fine, plenty of great fruit and cheese pairings, cheese and honey, etc. (if you haven’t tried it, some warm apple pie with some sharp cheddar cheese on it is great, also sounds crazy to some people but if you ever do a cheese fondue odds are you’re going to be dipping apple slices into cheese)
You’re probably even familiar with a couple pairings of chocolate and other cheeses, things like chocolate chips in cannoli, chocolate cheesecake
Based on this thread peanut butter or peanuts goes with a lot more than expected.
Potato chips dipped in peanut butter or yellow mustard. Malt vinegar on eggs. Waldorf salad.
Isn’t mustard always yellow ?
That’s true, I meant the style of mustard that’s not Dijon mustard but they are both yellow in color.
Peanut butter is absolutely vile, I like actual peanuts by themselves though.
It is an acquired taste, I found it real strange initially but I’ve grown to like it now. I find it also mixes well with a few things
Peanut butter toast with Sriracha.
Sriracha sauce on a hot dog, period.
