Grapes and Grappa, Figs and Olives + Free Cooking Light Cookbooks!
Since I've been working on my cookbook, which is all about modern Asian cooking, almost everything edible that comes out of my kitchen has been Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Malaysian or Korean. Yes, it can be tiring and I'm considering starting a new blog called "Steamy Kitchen, UnAsian" just to break the monotony. Gimme some Brazilian! Moroccan! Australian!
My family has been begging for something different, and everytime that I ask the kids, "so what do you want for supper tonight?" They chime excitedly, "McDonald's HAPPY MEALS! Hip, hip, HOORRAYYYY!"
Which is fine. I give in. Because I do love me some McD french fries dipped in soft serve ice cream. I know, You're groaning. It's a leftover habit and craving from my pregnancy days.
Please tell me that I'm not alone in this craving! Please tell me that you, too have strange culinary cravings and secret flavor combinations that just make other people squirm uncomfortably in their pants.
Tell me and I'll enter you in the drawing to win one of three gorgeous 
Cooking Light The Complete Cookbook - this baby is MASSIVE, weighing in at 4.4lbs with 1,200 recipes, 630 color photographs and a companion DVD. Plus I think there is an offer for 1 free year of Cooking Light magazine subscription inside.
OHOHOH! And there's a bonus...at the end of this post.
Perks of Being My Friend
I get many cookbooks and products for review. Things I don't like, I don't mention on the blog and just give it away. The things that I do like, I review, write about it and give you all a chance to win the product for free. One of the many perks of being in close proximity of my mailbox each day at 4pm when I check my mail is that you can be the first to call "dibs," as I often give the book or product away when I'm done with the review.
MiMi (grandma), visiting from Buffalo, just happened to be there right as I was opening the box from Cooking Light's PR agency. She called dibs and happily flipped through the book as if it was hers already.
But then later that evening, I finally had a chance to flip through it. HOT DAMN!! I love the book! And I'm keeping it. There's no way I'm letting this baby go! (Sorry, Mimi, you'll just have to enter in the contest and see if you can win it!)
The reason I love this book so much is the variety of flavor combinations that I normally wouldn't have come up with myself. See recipes below.
Moroccan Chicken: Figs, Olives and Honey
adapted from Cooking Light The Complete Cookbook. The recipe calls for boneless chicken thighs, cut into chunks. What I did instead was use whole bone-in chicken thighs, had Scott grill them outside on the BBQ grill, and just made the sauce separate to pour over when the chicken was done grilling. I love this recipe- this is definitely a keeper and all my dinner guests raved about it.
Prep : 12 min. Cook : 16 min. Serves 4
2 teaspoons olive oil
1-1/2 lbs chicken skinless, boneless chicken thighs, cut into large 1-1/2" pieces
1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley
1/2 cup quartered dried Calimyrna figs
1/4 cup chopped green olives
3 tablespoons sweet Marsala or Madeira wine
2 tablespoons honey
1 tablespoon minced garlic
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
1/2 teaspoon ground coriander
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom
Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken; cook 5 minutes or until browned, stirring frequently. Stir in chopped parsley and next 9 ingredients; reduce heat to medium and cook 8 minutes; stirring occasionally. Garnish with parsley sprigs if desired.
I'm submitting this to Andrea's Grow Your Own blog event, where at least one item in the dish comes from your garden or farm. No, I don't have a pig farm or a vineyard. (sigh) I WISH! The salad greens are from my garden. There's spinach, mizuna and some other misc. green stuff.
Grapes, Grappa and Bacon: A Warm Salad
inspired by Cooking Light The Complete Cookbook. Original recipe was Grapes and Grappa with Quail. But I didn't have a quail handy and craved a warm salad instead. The original recipe called for Prosciutto, but when I went to the market, Prosciutto was *#$@!* $8.00 for 6 paper-thin slices. WTF? So I know this cookbook is cooking LIGHT. But I wasn't about to pay that kind of money for crappy prosciutto. So I used bacon instead.
I think I just upped the caloric intake by a hundred or so. Feel free to slap me.
Grappa is an Italian liquor distilled from grape pressings left over after winemaking; cognac is a good substitute.
serves 6-8
1 bag of salad greens
1/2 lb grapes, cut in half
4 slices of turkey bacon, bacon or prosciutto
2 ounces grappa
3 tablespoons cider vinegar
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
OPTION #1: I'm gonna give you a choice. If you're gonna use bacon or turkey bacon, the cooking light way would be to crisp in the microwave on paper towels. Once it's cooked, crumble and set aside. Heat a medium, nonstick skillet over high heat and add 1 tbl olive oil. When oil is hot, add the grapes and cook for 15 seconds. Add cider vinegar, grappa, sugar, mustard, salt and pepper. Simmer for 30 seconds and pour over salad greens. Top with crumbled bacon.
OPTION #2: Using prosciutto. Cut prosciutto into small, bite-sized pieces. Grab a large skillet, add 1 tbl olive oil and heat over medium heat. When hot, Add prosciutto. Fry crisp. Add grapes, let the grapes sizzle in the olive oil for 15 seconds. Add grappa, vinegar, sugar, S&P, and mustard. Let simmer on low for 30 seconds. Pour over salad greens. Eat and then go jogging around the block.
OPTION #3: The shameful, sinful method that I used. Cut bacon into small, bite-sized pieces. Grab a large skillet and add bacon in skillet. Cook bacon over medium heat. until crisp. You should have about 1 tablespoon of bacon fat in the pan. (wince!) You can spoon some of the fat out if there's a lot. Add grapes, let the grapes sizzle in the fat for 15 seconds. Add grappa, vinegar, sugar, S&P, and mustard. Let simmer on low for 30 seconds. Pour over salad greens. Eat and then go jogging around the block.
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Drawing for the free Cooking Light cookbook!
All you have to do is comment below. Tell me a flavor or ingredient combination that isn't mainstream. It doesn't have to be strange or exotic - just maybe a little different, innovative or...ok, strange is cool too. p.s. I like pickles + pate in a baguette too.
Here are mine:
Seaweed sprinkled with salty/sweet plum powder (li hing)
Canned smoked oysters + apricot jam
Winners have been announced!!! See who won.
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I will really regret typing this...
But for shits and giggles, when I announce the 3 winners of the cookbook in a couple of weeks, I will let YOU vote for which strange flavor concoction for met to try. I will make it and videotape myself eating it, all for your sick and twisted enjoyment.
You'll decide in a couple of weeks. And maybe...just maybe I might do this on television.
Now, that's web-ertainment. Beat that, Zimmern.
Contest is over, but come vote for which strange flavor concoction that I will try (and whoever you pick also gets a nice Steamy Kitchen care package.
April 25th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Well it's not too far out there but my husband thinks it's wierd; I like to dip my potato chips in apple sauce, oh and grilled cheese sandwiches too.
April 25th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
I secretly like to eat dark chocolate m&ms and cheddar goldfish crackers.
April 25th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
I sneak pickle slices between the cheese in a grill cheese sandwich.
April 25th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
It's not crazy weird, really, but I do like wasabi peas with goat cheese!
April 25th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Pregnancy cravings are crazy, with my first all I wanted was fried okra and Wendy's chili. My poor child.
I do the fries and soft serve - except my choice is typically Wendy's fries and a frosty. Not as often anymore. Something about salty and sweet. As for weird food mixtures, my Dad probably has most anyone I've ever known beat. He would crumble cornbread in a glass and eat it with milk, not the sweet kind either, the southern kind that tastes like cornmeal and salt. Then there was the buttermilk in a cup with salt and pepper only, which he would drink. Maybe he should win the cookbook, lol. But he has no interest in anything with the word 'light' in it, so I'll gladly take it from him!
April 25th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Well I have never been pregnant so I dont have a odd combo. However things that turn people off like ground anchovies, and chicken livers,I like to sneak in a sauce or dish.It adds that extrs omph. Sometimes I can even get away with it.
April 25th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Darn, Carla beat me to the fries + Wendy's frosty combo. Way better than fries and soft serve, if you ask me.
I also like PB + banana + bacon sandwiches. Since I like bacon with maple syrup, I thought the sweetness of the banana would mimic that and it does. And everything goes with PB in a sandwich. Plus, the bacon adds a salty crunchiness to every bite.
April 25th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Peanut butter and hard salami sandwiches with orange soda on the side. Started eating these when I was 7 or 8. Haven't had one in while. Lunch tomorrow is looking up.
April 25th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
I've been caught with peanut butter and mayonaise.Mmmmm
April 25th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
dude. seriously? when i was a teenager i was dipping my mickey d fries in some soft serve! i've since kicked the habit, but i no longer work at mickey d's either.
so here's my strange taste/concoction, i like to eat bulgogi sandwiches. *grimace* sometimes on hot dog buns with mayo. *hides face* and sometimes with kimchi.
April 25th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
i totally feel you on the fries + chocolate ice cream thing, though mine would be wendy's fries and a frosty (oh, and there is one reason that i need a cooking light cookbook. ahem)
along the same lines, my mom got me hooked on plain potato chips (esp. Lays) and dark chocolate (in particular, burnt almond chocolate bars).
April 25th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
I stopped doing this at work because it occurred to me it might look gross, but I'll put a spoonful of yogurt in my mouth and then take a bite of my peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I think it's the cool dairy combination with the soft bread and sticky pb&j just gets me.
Funny how many of these combos have to do with peanut butter!
April 25th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
I love to eat ice cream and cereal together. Basically, I just take a mixture of different kinds of cereal and mix it with ice cream--but so there's more cereal than ice cream. I usually use a pretty crunchy and flake-y cereal and vanilla or vanilla-based ice cream for the optimum texture/flavor combination.
This totally grosses out pretty much everyone, but I have no idea why, because it is AMAZING.
April 25th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
My favorite is peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with original Lay's potato chips crumbled (rather thick) between the PB and the J. MMmmm....so sweet...salty....and crunchy!
April 25th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
I"m seconding the pb and mayo thing. I still eat it.
Cooking Light has come a long way since they first started. They have great recipes!
April 25th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
We went to Montreal a few years ago and they prefer to use mayo instead of ketchup for their fries. My husband gave it a shot while we were there and definitely prefers it now! (He didn't try poutine though - pretty sure that's not vegetarian gravy)
April 25th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Spicy dill pickles and Tostitos corn chips. I don't know why, but I love this combination!
Also, like you, fries dipped in a chocolate shake. SO good!!
April 25th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
macaroni and cheese and ketchup, just like the Barenaked Ladies intended.
April 25th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Personally, I like a toasted Peanut butter, bacon, and honey sandwich.
Oh, and saying cognac is a good substitute for grappa is like saying a porsche is a good substitute for a broken bicycle. Grappa tastes like kerosene.
April 25th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Two words...
Bacon. Cheesecake.
April 25th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
When I was a kid I used to love to eat what my dad ate....... ketchup on cheddar cheese (the real cheese, no processed junk). YUM!
April 25th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
I have to admit that I survived for months on the following:
canned sweet corn mixed with chopped up imitation crab, dressed with white wine vinegar and some dijon mustard.
It's an interpretation of a salad I had in France once, and I have to say that it is absolutely delicious and undeniably bizarre combo.
April 25th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Peanut butter and melted cheese on toast...or peanut butter and honey. Yummy!!!
April 25th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Peanut butter, bananas, and honey is always a good combo. But I also like BBQ sauce on everything - especially french fries. Not that "strange" though.
April 25th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
The one thing I eat that makes people outside of my family give me strange looks is macaroni and milk. Elbow macaroni, milk (enough to make it look like a bowl of cereal), butter, and lots of salt and pepper.
April 25th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
I really love the combination of persimmon pudding and milk. I pour a lot on it so that it looks like oatmeal - yum!
April 25th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
My husband thinks it's weird that I like to mix canned tuna meat into saffron rice with onions. Other than that, I got nothin'.
I once had a subscription to Cooking Light. I know I clipped a lot of recipes from the magazines. I should go dig those up.
April 25th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Hey, I don't need pregnancy cravings to love McDonald's fries in soft serve ice-cream! I have been loving that forever!!! I didn't know anyone else ate them like that, if I didn't think you rocked before, I definitely think you do now
April 25th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
When I was in high school, it was the "cool" thing to dip your fries in your frosty at Wendys. So you'd just be considered a cool kid! (Does this sucking up help my chances?
I don't think I have any really strange cravings or combinations. Maybe I'm boring. But I do love Cooking Light!
April 25th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
I recently discovered verdolaga at my local ethnic market. I have been using in place watercress in salads and love it. And my ethnic market has it for thirty-three cents a bunch, a lot cheaper than watercress! It has become my new favorite green.
April 25th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
I thought my sister was crazy for eating green beans and ketchup as a kid.
The flavor combination I like and others might think weird is bbq sauce on eggs.
Maybe my parents let us use the condiments a little too much as kids.
April 25th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
I like to dip my fries in mayo, or mayo and dijon mustard, or even better, mayo mixed with tabasco. Enough tabasco that the mayo gets quite runny. Yummy spicy, creamy, salty.
April 25th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
This was years ago but pickles, ice cream, and chocolate!
April 25th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Oh my gosh, this is so gross that I shouldn't admit that I eat it — but I *love* apple sliced doused with spray butter! And some Equal on top for an overwhelmingly chemical-full snack. I limit myself to only having it once a month or so.
April 25th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
I like to slice up apples and soak them in balsamic vinegar before I eat them.
April 25th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
I love to eat cheese after I eat chocolate.
Also whats good and seems weird is canned pears with mayonnaise and cheese on top of them. Surprisingly yummy!
April 25th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Funny how many of the odd combos involve peanut butter.
Growing up in Delaware we had something called Lebanon Bologna (from Pennsylvania I believe) and I used to slather two pieces of white bread with peanut butter and put a piece of Lebanon on it and eat! It has been probably 30 years since I've done that.
Wow, just scrolled up again and see that Mike did pretty much the same thing!!
April 25th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Kaddo Bourani (sweet pumpkin, hearty tomato-y meat sauce, and garlic-mint yogurt sauce) tops my list of stuff I love but seemed weird at first. (http://habeasbrulee.com/2006/10/20/kaddo-bourani-pumpkin-with-yogurt-and-meat-sauces/)
Or baby cut carrots dipped in Premium soy sauce with a dash of tobasco.
There's also the rosewater and sugar syrup brushed on the top of my lemon-poppyseed-almond muffin at lunch today.
- Meilin
April 25th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
I'd like a glass of grappa, please.
I think anchovy-stuffed olives are a strange combination, but they work so well together. I would not dip them in ice cream, however.
April 25th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
I love putting gochujang (korean spicey paste) on chicken wings, and also on apple slices
don't knock it till you've tried it!!!
April 25th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
My strange culinary craving is nothing exotic, but it makes my hubby wince when I have it...which is simply hash browns with steamed white rice. Carb overload much?? Depending on my mood, sometimes I lightly spread ketchup over the hash browns, sometimes I sprinkle 'em with Tabasco. It's a Filipino thing, the rice...we'll eat rice with almost anything! But most draw the line at pairing hash browns with rice--not me though.
One other combo I like is fried pork rinds with rice. One of my girlfriends introduced me to this. Sprinkle vinegar on the pork rinds, scoop 'em up with some rice, then gobble it up. Yum!
April 25th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
i like peanut butter on my pancakes...it's not really weird, but lots of people think it is. and menudo, but that's not weird either, if you are mexican. but my favorite thing together at this time, is green olives and cheese-its. (that's not weird either!)
April 25th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Hubby love peanut butter & baloney. He is trying to get the girls to like it too. Yuck!
April 25th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
That salad is so vibrantly green and tasty looking . I will have to pick up some grappa to try. As for flavour combinations; this one is not too far out there but before I tried it I thought it was weird: chocolate and chilis
April 25th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Leftovers for lunch, all smooshed together. Lunch today was bits of smoked trout w/ cream cheese, cottage cheese, green salad on top of leftover mapo tofu w/ rice. All mixed together, yummy.
April 25th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
When I was growing up, I would love a slice of good cheddar (none of that processed stuff) with a slice of apple, or even better, a slice of apple pie. Not that I have anything against apple pie a la mode, but a warm slice of apple pie with the cheese ever so slightly softened on top of the crust - the combo of salt and sweet and chew and crunch. *le sigh*
But it seems like no one else has ever had that combo, and they look at me like I'm weird.
April 25th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Ruffles potato chips dipped in cream cheese and bottled salsa (like Pace or Chi Chi's).
PB&J with a slice of American cheese.
Oreos dipped in sour cream (my oldest turned me on to this).
And this sounded strange to me at first, but it's really very common in Mexico, cucumber sprinkled with salt and chili powder, or orange sections with chili.
April 25th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
I like Pringle chips dipped in melted dark chocolate.....yummy!
I also like Cooking Light and would love to win the cookbook.
April 25th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Okay...the leftover from pregnancy days brought fond food memories back (though for me it was Wendy's fries and a Frosty - YUM!)
However - for my strange food texture/flavor combo that lingers on even today - peanut butter, brown mustard and smoked ham on honey wheat bread. It really is quite the combination for a comfort food kind of snack!
April 25th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Hm...well, it's probably not too crazy, but since I was about 12 or 13 I've sauteed mushrooms (fresh, canned, doesn't matter) in raspberry vinegar. A LOT of raspberry vinegar, though red wine vinegar would do. On occasion I'll even top mac & cheese with them.
There is no explanation for this, I have to tell you. None at all.
I also like Ranch dressing on bologna.
Growth spurt, maybe?
(Cooking Light is wonderful, I agree.)
April 25th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
mmmm Peanut butter with Sweet pickles sandwhich or Peanut butter and brown sugar sandwhiches. Comfort all the way .. My mom always made them for us when we were young and it sure takes me back whenever I indulge .
April 25th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
My son in law introduced me to Fritos and pineapple cream cheese. At first I thought - oh yuck - but the combination of salty and sweet and crunchy and smooth is really good....He has me hooked!
April 25th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
My family would be appalled I'm writing this. For a cocktail about once a week, I like to fill a glass with a can of drained pineapple or mandarin oranges and then cover with inexpensive chardonnay. I eat the fruit with a fork, and then drink the wine with the floaties. It's my ghetto sangria apertif, and I love it more than any other drink.
April 25th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Peanut butter on my pancakes...yum, yum!
Also, eating (not mixing) cheese, pretzels, and pickles at the same time. Mmmmmm
April 25th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Strange combinations? I love to eat red Twizzlers licorice and popcorn together when I go to the movies... Can't have one or the other, must buy both!
I also like to dip Wendy's fries into my chocolate Frosty. Oooh, and maple syrup on my bacon at breakfast... Yum!
Guess that must mean I like the combo of Sweet n' Salty!
April 25th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
I like to eat green mangoes dipped in fish sauce mixed with sugar and fresh crushed chili...as a snack.
Yum!
April 25th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Since you've already called out my ice cream & french fry combo, I'll have to go with a huge shocker that my father came up with : bananas and doritos. Strange, but true & its delicious!
April 26th, 2008 at 12:02 am
So, my wife digs tex-mex chili ladled onto peanut buttered bread. Weird.
April 26th, 2008 at 12:16 am
going way back to old school ghetto style. vienna sausage, sticky rice and planter's cheese balls (from the can). discovered this combo in elementary school when i couldn't cook anything, so i just opened things up and ate.
oh, and green mangoes or oranges with salt and tabasco.
oh again...c/o my hawaiian friends...gummy bears dusted with li hing mui. try it with dried apricots too!
but i still do the fried rice with ketchup on occasion.
(i think i'm making myself nauseous)
April 26th, 2008 at 12:28 am
I like to dip Ruffles potato chips in melted dark chocolate. Even more unusual, Hot Cheetos dipped in cottage cheese. And yes, I do have a cardiologist on retainer
April 26th, 2008 at 12:30 am
Love the website...want the book.
April 26th, 2008 at 12:42 am
okay, okay i admit it is quite a coincidence that i too am a adamant lover of french fries dipped, yes dipped!, in a chocolate milkshake. but, i cannot get this from mcdonalds. it has to be better quality. sorry! i don't crave mcdonalds ever.
as for if it had to be fast food fries and chocolate shake - in n out. it must be in n out. sorry non-california, nevada, arizona residents!
April 26th, 2008 at 12:44 am
hmmmm..
popcorn and cheap champagne? anybody? I could do it all night.
April 26th, 2008 at 1:04 am
I like potato chips dipped in melted bittersweet chocolate. I like to eat little chunks of extra sharp cheddar cheese with raisins on each bite. Candy corn and salted peanuts together. Definitely like the sweet and salty combos.
April 26th, 2008 at 1:12 am
Otak Otak with sunny side up egg sandwich! Yum... Hot, spicy otak and runny egg yolk goes very very well! It's high cal of course!
It's been years since I've had it 
Hard to get good otak here.
Btw, I used to dip my MacD fries into their sundaes. Still missed their peach sundaes and peach pies. I think it's the best combi (fries with peach sundaes)
April 26th, 2008 at 1:38 am
It's unconventional, Asian fusion, Chinese-Canadian and so good: I buy freshly cooked, sliced bbq roast pork (cha siu) at the local Chinatown and I put it in a sandwich.
I like to toast my bread (white, brown, it doesn't matter) and slather it with mayonnaise (Best Foods) and layer the sliced bbq pork on the bread, sandwiching it. Don't put tomatoes in there (too wet) and don't even think about putting any lettuce in there. If you want greenery, you can add slivered green onions. That's yummy and goes really well with the bbq duck! It is so succulent and delicious and simple. I'm the only person I know that does this. I practically lived on this when I was pregnant.
You should hear what I do with Chinese BBQ duck!
April 26th, 2008 at 2:03 am
omg! my favorite thing in the whole world is to order fries and a milk shake (preferably chocolate mixed with strawberry), stick a fry in the straw, and suck the milkshake out through the fry/straw. everyone thinks its really gross when they see me do it, but i love it!
April 26th, 2008 at 2:26 am
wonderful website!
eating avocadoes with soy sauce =]
April 26th, 2008 at 2:27 am
A nice, fresh macaroon with a raspberry shoved into it just before eating it. I also have it on good authority from my friend's 9 year old son that grapes go well with ketchup, but I'm not ready to try that one!
April 26th, 2008 at 2:55 am
I never thought this was odd until I went from living in the Southwest to college in the Midwest, but there is nothing I like more than a grilled cheese sandwich with roasted green Anaheim chiles! Layer cheese of choice (I'm going through a medium cheddar phase) and strips of roasted chile on slices of hearty, nutty bread and toast the whole thing with butter in a frying pan...
The nuttiness, the warm cheesiness, the fruity, smokey heat from the chile- augh, I'm homesick already!
Also love roasted green chiles on pizza, chips and cheese, steak... the list goes on!
April 26th, 2008 at 3:35 am
Cheetos with fried rice. call me KKKrrraaazzyyyy
Also, feed blitz stopped notifying me when you post a message ( thank god that I check every hour for an update;)). They mad at me or somethin'
April 26th, 2008 at 4:56 am
put kim chee into your tuna sandwich..love this combo.
April 26th, 2008 at 5:04 am
mine is cornflakes, milk and tabasco. In my opinion, it's tasty enough for everyone to try at least once
April 26th, 2008 at 6:37 am
OMG! I'm a weirdo you know that?!! Well, I guess you know it NOW!! I'm a weird person at eating too ... lemme list it below, pick your fav and EAT!
1. BREAD + VEGEMITE + MASHED BANANAS (puh-lease! try THIS! )
2. mix RICE with CORNFLAKES (on days when you need double load on carbs!)
hahaha.. that's about it! have fun reading (and hopefully eating this)
April 26th, 2008 at 7:42 am
Cheddar cheese and dill bagels with a thick smear of raspberry jelly-and that was before I got pregnant!
Furikake on cottage cheese-yum!
April 26th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Crumble the potato chips into vanilla ice-cream
April 26th, 2008 at 8:35 am
One of my grandma's dishes was boiled hotdogs split open, filled with creamed potatoes and topped with melted american cheese. A few minutes under the broiler makes it very yummy! And while I don't think it's weird, I get some odd looks when I dump a box of milk duds into my popcorn at the movie theatre-- instant caramel corn!!
April 26th, 2008 at 8:46 am
I love eating my fries with mayo, ranch dressing, tarter sauce, or thousand island dressing. I don't like my fries with ketchup, but will dip my grilled cheese sandwich in them. Yummy!
April 26th, 2008 at 8:54 am
My daughter's with you on the McD french fries with soft serve. Personally, I'm more of a peanut butter and maple syrup on my waffles kind of gal. Or a peanut butter and pickle sandwich. Creamy, crunchy, smooth, tangy. Yummm.
April 26th, 2008 at 9:08 am
OK - Jaden, I love you dear, but fries and soft serve?
Do.
Not.
Want.
A dill pickle slice sandwiched between two lays potato chips.
April 26th, 2008 at 9:25 am
One of my favorite combinations - which everyone thinks is weird but is SO good - is espresso-covered fillets! I don't even like coffee, but this combo is amazing!
Please enter me! Thanks!
April 26th, 2008 at 9:30 am
I really like pineapple on pizza. No meat, no other vegetables. Just perfect Hawaiian pineapple, cheese, pizza sauce, crust. It'll be nice to have after Passover!
Thank you for entering me
April 26th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Love, love LOVE tuna sandwich and chocolate milkshake...bite of tuna sip of shake OH YEAH!!! Also, salad with a can (yes I go there) of oysters, shredded purple cabbage and mix it up with mayo. mmmmm mayo....lots of mayo.
April 26th, 2008 at 10:45 am
I don't think I indulge in any weird food combos as an adult, but as a kid, I loved potato chips dipped in chocolate pudding. But not just any chocolate pudding, it was those snack size ones with the metal pull tops (I think I just showed my age, sigh).
The food combo that disgusted my family and I can't believe my mom let me eat this at the dinner table (the chip/pudding snack was the result of lunchroom trading, she didn't know about that) was mayonaise on steamed cauliflower. These are pretty mild compared to what others have posted, lol.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:06 am
I love pepper jelly on my B.L.T. It's a great combo but my friends wrinkle thier noses and say eewwwww. I love it!
April 26th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Dark, dark chocolate (85%) and red wine.
Wait. That's not weird. LOL. I can't think of any weird combos. Everything I like is normal. But I would LOVE to win the cookbook!! And hopefully, my entry will win with the votes and you can video yourself eating dark chocolate and drinking red wine.
April 26th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Strange, dirty, shame from my days in college:
1 tortilla
1 bag of cheetos
some jack cheese
some green taco sauce
Assembly should be self evident. Everything goes into the tortilla, then into the microwave. On high. For "'til it's done" seconds.
It's done when the cheetos are soggy from cheese juice.
April 26th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Once I realized I did not have any spoons, so I scooped up yogurt with potato chips and ate them together. Turned out to be pretty good!
April 26th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Peanut butter, mayo, horseradish all on a cheezit, the big kind.
If you can't find the big cheezits, saltine crackers will do, but it won't be as good.
April 26th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
i also love the french fries and soft serve combo? or french fries with a chocolate milkshake .. mm..
April 26th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
i love dipping fries into a combo of ketchup, mustard, and mayo. mmmmm.
and apparently ketchup + grilled cheese is strange to a lot of people i've met.
April 26th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
I used to love dipping my Wendy's fries in my Wendy's frosty. Yum. I miss it.
Strange cravings: Cool Ranch Doritos with cottage cheese
Grilled cheese with Ketchup, Potato chips on any sandwich. I guess nothing too outregous.
April 26th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
My dad got me hooked on these when I was a kid and I still crave them:
1. a bowl of sliced up banana (not too ripe) with milk ....aaah refreshing
2. Banana with The Laughing Cow cheese wedges... take a bite of banana and a nibble of the cheese... mmmm rich and creamy...
There is something about bananas and dairy that just makes the banana tastes better... try it - you will like it.
April 26th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
While I adore french fries and ice cream (or vanilla milkshakes) as well, my #1 fave oddball combination is instant ice tea powder (diet with lemon in it) over vanilla ice cream! I have no idea how I came upon THAT one, but I've been enjoying this since I was a kid. Let the ice cream soften up a bit, and stir it all up. The lemon crystals give you an explosion of tang and it's just heavenly! (Oooh - maybe I should have kept this to myself - will Ben & Jerry be reading this, Jaden??)
April 26th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
In college I used to eat salami and cream cheese sandwiches. On rye, of course.
April 26th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Microwaved carrots with Hersheys Chocolate Syrup. This sounds pretty gross now, but when I was little, it's how my mom talked me into eating carrots. I called it Bug's Bunny's Surprise.
Not so gross, just unusual:
Plain yogurt with raw, soaked wheat berries. And honey.
or
Ice cream with the crumbs from the bottom of a bag of pretzels.
April 26th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Bread, peanut butter, dill pickle slices = craziness. Reading all of these entries...I hear a whole new cookbook in the making...
April 26th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
I gave this up for Lent(just to show how much I love it!)...toasted bagel with plain cream cheese, salami and (the healthy part) tomato slices. When I'm really really bad, I have it with a Peanut Buster parfait from Dairy Queen!
Someone ahead of me here mentioned "otak-otak" which literally means "brains" but it actually is much better than the name implies. I found a shortcut way to make it here...2T of the canned Maesri red curry sauce(from Thailand), mix with a couple of beaten eggs, add a 1/2 cup of coconut milk, add in whatever boneless fish fillets(basa is mild and easily avail), steam till done. Yummy!
April 26th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
My favorite flavor is bacon and peanut butter. My father always use to make a horrible face when he saw me eating a bacon and peanut butter sandwich. One day I decided to show him. I took a standard recipe for focaccia, replaced the parmesan with peanuts and peanut butter and the herbs with shredded bacon. It was ... different and my Dad ate it. The next time he saw me eating a bacon and peanut butter sandwich, he said - "What? No focaccia?!?"
April 26th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Man, I could use this cookbook. As I sit in rain drenched New Orleans having just had a Cochon de Lait Po Boy at Jazz Fest...what? What do you mean you don't feel sorry for me? I still have to be good when I get back home, so...
Ok, ok. My flavor combo comes from a dinner I had at Meauxbar last night. Vanilla bean roasted chicken. My god it was good. Almost as good as beer can, Madras curry seasoned chicken but I digress.
April 26th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Rice+Curry mixed together with a good amount of plain potato chips crumbled on top.
Steamed veggies (carrot sticks, beans, broccoli are what I tried) dipped in icecream and then some chocolate sauce.
The first I still love, the second grosses me out now (it was just a pregnancy thing).
April 26th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
I'm from Estonia and a really important part of our Christmas meal is blood sausages. I personally love any cooked blood product with sour cream and some tart jam. Acquired taste, I suppose.
April 26th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
I eat peanut butter and cucumber sandwiches. I know it's not that strange but my hubby thinks it's gross.
April 26th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Popcorn, Maggi's chili sauce. Addictive!
I WIN!! ME ME ME ME ME ME!!
April 26th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
OH, I can't pass up entering for this cookbook!
I am a sucker for mixing flavors and textures. My childhood fave is cottage cheese, black pepper, and crushed potato chips. Use a ratio of about half to half on the chips and cheese, with a sprinkling of pepper. This is my go to comfort food. I like the crunch and squish mixed with the tang and saltiness.
April 26th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Weird flavor combinations? Huh... the strangest thing I combine is yogurt and unsweetened apple sauce. It's like a gooey apple pie. Actually, I should really try throwing some granola in there, or some crumbled graham crackers.
As a kid I always enjoyed one of my classmate's peanut butter and popcorn sandwiches. Jelly ain't got nuthin' on warm popcorn.
April 26th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Something from my childhood...Have no turned my kids onto it yet...
Peanut butter, chili sauce, red onion, and bacon sandwhiches! Sweet, spicy, crunchy, hot!!
Julie
April 26th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Oh, I think Karla's Dad and I must be related! I love good southern cornbread (the white, no-sugar kind), crumbled into a big glass of cold buttermilk, with salt & pepper in it. Crushed saltines will do in a pinch if there's no cornbread to be found. Salted popcorn with a big, tall glass of cold buttermilk has been another fave since I was 2 years old!
April 26th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
PB sandwich w/ anything salty: bacon, turkey deli meat, leftover fried chicken... Also, strawberry jam on my egg mcmuffins. Yum!
April 26th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Have never been pregnant so I guess those tales are still to come. However I have a thing for oven roasted tomatoes at the moment and will put them with everything I am eating..... cheese, crackers topped with these tomatoes, soft boiled eggs, asparagus wrapped with bacon with again these tomatoes... My husband has a similar addiction to Hatch Chili Jam, it will go on anything he is eating, you have to try this stuff.
Sorry I do not stranger suggestion.
fingers crossed for the draw....
April 27th, 2008 at 12:32 am
i once got so tired of breakfast food at a conference that i tried choco-lizing things. i dipped my breakfast sausage in chocolate milk to degrease and sweeten and smeared chocolate frosting on my roast chicken to broaden a sense of richness and sweetness as well.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:48 am
Ok...these cravings have my stomach doing flips. I thought I was "off" - when I just sat and chewed ice all the time. At least that was one flavour (in a manner of speaking).
April 27th, 2008 at 12:51 am
Peanut butter, pickle and mayo sandwich
April 27th, 2008 at 1:39 am
This is just such a wonderful question! OK here are my favorite weirdo-combos:
1.) Snickers bars chopped into little pieces and sprinkled onto a cream cheese-slathered onion bagel (must be onion), schmooshed into a sandwich and washed down with Orangina.
2.) Scrambled eggs topped with LOTS of mayo, white truffle oil, and cayenne pepper. Seriously, I mean LOTS of mayo. Like so much I can't do it in front of other people.
3.) Alfalfa sprout, dill pickle slices, and mayo sandwiches on soft whole wheat bread. I ate this combination of sandwich every day for lunch and dinner for two months when I was in the fourth grade. My parents were kind of like "Well what other child requests alfalfa sprouts on whole wheat?" and just let me have it. Then one day i randomly woke up and requested chicken.
5.) EZ Cheez on Wheat Thins topped with one M&M (Each chip must be sprayed one at a time in fun little florets and peaks). This was my favorite snack when I got the "munchies" in college.
Oh and to the "ice chewer" above: I also have an odd love of Sunny D over crushed ice. MUST be crushed ice and MUST be Sunny D.
April 27th, 2008 at 1:43 am
OMG and I forgot the biggest and weirdest of all!!! Despite the fact that I'm (oddly and coincidentally) working on a post about it now (but I'll leave a sneak peak here). It's a legacy from my grandmother: Cheddar cheese melted in coffee. You drop the cubes of cheese in along with the cream and sugar, then drink the coffee and when you are done you scoop the gooey salty sweety coffee-flavored cheese out and serve on a cracker (export sodas were a favorite). SO good!! I'll have more about this on my blog soon (ish).
April 27th, 2008 at 1:45 am
For me...
My craven wish is a big ol' deep dish of good chocolate ice cream packed with salt and vinegar potato chips. Sweet, sour and salty. Hmmm. Maybe a bit of fish sauce next time.
April 27th, 2008 at 5:01 am
If I'm having a McJunkfood craving, the french fries have to be dipped in a mixture of ketchup & McChicken sauce.
One of my first food experiments (at around the age of
involved plain potato chips dunked in a cup of instant coffee. Ugh.
April 27th, 2008 at 10:17 am
I'm a fan of gouda and strawberry or blueberry jam sandwiches... Actually any fruit/cheese combo is good for me.
April 27th, 2008 at 11:11 am
I really like chocolate pudding with saltines... that isn't all that weird though, I don't think. My mom always used to eat toast with grape jelly, with a slice of Kraft American cheese on top. My brother ate that too, and I always thought it was gross.
April 27th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Hey, anyone likes cold watermelon with sweet Thai Chilli Sauce? It's very shiok!
April 27th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Aged balsamic vinegar makes a really wonderful topping for vanilla ice cream and I am betting that it would go even better with a homemade fig ice cream...Just a thought.
April 27th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Really sour green mangoes or Granny Smith apples dipped in Kamayan Shrimp Paste.
April 27th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Odd combo - everything bagel with cream cheese, marmalade and jarred jalapeno slices. Good anytime of day! and #14, pb&j with lays!
April 27th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
mmm... bacon + chocolate = happy little asian girl
I recently decided to be super weird and make some red velvet cake mixed with extra cocoa and bacon pieces. It was so good! With just a little cream cheese frosting on top. I think the bacon and chocolate combo is my main reason for needing the Cooking Light book, though I do the fries and frosty thing too.
April 27th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
I came up with this idea a few days back and have been itching to try it: asparagus and chanterelle savory tart - orange zest in the tart crust, ricotta or egg custard herb filling, roasted veggies on top w. a drizzle of orange / balsamic reduction to top it off.
April 27th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Have a mouthful of cesar salad and take a sip of root beer float.
April 27th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
ketchup + potato chips
popcorn + hot chocolate: use a spoon, and put a few popped kernels on each spoonful of hot cocoa before you slurp.
April 27th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
I woke up this morning and my husband and 5yr old daughter had made asiago cheese bagels into french toast with PB and J on top. Also,my daughters favoriot smoothie-its quite good-
1 cup mixed frozen berries
1-2 cups soymilk
1/2 cup orange juice
1 cup fresh baby spinach
1 bannana
1/2 cup fresh carrots
1 tbsp vanilla protien powder
1/2 teas pumpkin pie spice
1 tbsp ground flax meal
1 tbsp berry greens
Just mix the spinach/carrots with the soymilk/OJ in a blender before adding everything else until thay are completely smooth-you might be surprised how much your kids love.
April 27th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Oriental flavored Ramen noodles with a splash of Coca Cola.
April 27th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
OK, I was just researching Kewpie mayonnaise and ran across a poster at Chowhound who 1) likes to dip dried squid in it and 2) was fed peanuts wrapped in strips of cuttlefish as a treat.
Two combinations I simply can't imagine enjoying, but I have trouble with fishy flavors.
April 27th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Well... my Italian subs? Drown in mayo, mustard, AND oil. A lot of people squick at that one.
April 27th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
This was what my housemate used to do..and I got hooked.
Sauce or dip to go with oven baked fries-
2 tablespoon of bbq sauce
2 tablespoon of sweet chili sauce
3 tablespoon of mayo
April 27th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
pickled beets with boiled chunks of potatoes, eggs and carrots smothered in good olive oil or mayonnaise!
April 27th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
I like to eat soy beans with balsamic vinaigrette... and if that isn't weird enough, I buy teddy grahams and then put them in a bowl and pour milk over them to make teddy graham cereal. It is *awesome*
April 27th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
An oldie but a goodie: Maraschino cherries with mustard.
April 27th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
French toast with ketchup
April 27th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Ever since I was about 12 years old, I've loved putting mayonaisse on my white rice with shoyu. My mother thought it crazy, but didn't mind it once she had a bite. And my husband thinks it's pretty good too. No one counts calories right???
April 27th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Maybe this isn't too weird, but I like mixing salsa/pico de gallo with cottage cheese.
April 27th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
I don't think it's weird but I've gotten weird looks about putting ketchup on my scrambled eggs. Yum.
When I was little my mom used to put white rice in a bowl, drizzle it with milk, and then sprinkle it with white sugar. I loved it then — I no longer eat it that way, but now my kids like it that way.
April 28th, 2008 at 12:57 am
it's not too crazy, but i made maple bacon ice cream a while back (after trying a version of it at Lola in Ohio) and it freaked everyone out...till they tried it!
April 28th, 2008 at 2:36 am
crazy combinations?
bananas dipped in patis (Filipino fish sauce), soft brioche bread dunked in ice-tea, vinegar in spaghetti sauce, raw eggs on pipping hot rice...
long ago when i didn't know how to make curry, i used to swipe McD's curry sauce and dunk it on rice.
and what's so weird about hot french fries in sundaes? my sisters and i have done that since we were kids....
April 28th, 2008 at 2:38 am
oh yeah... and chunky peanut butter an salt on green apples slices.
April 28th, 2008 at 3:41 am
Weird crazy combo? There's alot of them commented. Instead of weird, i think of them as interesting
My personal fav. weird combo, which I don't find it weird at all, but friends find me weird instead.
Eating sliced fruits (guava, pear, apples) dipped with chili sauce, Be it sambal belachan, garlic chilli or sweet & sour thai chilli sauce. They all are great combos with sliced fruits.
April 28th, 2008 at 5:05 am
Hey I eat McDonald fries with the soft serve ice-cream... A lot of people where I live, eat it! It's the best thing! XD (I'm in Australia).
I love eating packaged crinkle cut chips (original flavored) in a sandwich. I don't think it's strange but my boyfriend told me recently that it was. :S
Pasta sauce that has fish sauce added to it? It tastes fine to me...
I think this is an asian thing but eating raw mangoes (green) or crunchy nectarines with shrimp paste?? I love that as well.
April 28th, 2008 at 5:58 am
The BEST way to eat fries is a good size portion topped with a spicy oriental peanut sauce (called satay sauce here in the Netherlands) and a dollop of mayo on the side. Terms of Use: Take fry between fingers, roll through satay sauce, dip in mayo....put in mouth.
Deeeelicious !
P.S. Do international participants stand a chance for the cookbook, btw ?
April 28th, 2008 at 6:16 am
from college days: Subway seafood salad sandwich with mustard and lots and lots of pickles. these days: just like to dip breakfast sausages in maple syrup. yum!
April 28th, 2008 at 8:25 am
found your blog today from tastespotting.....love it!
I LOL at your fav combo--mine? fries and milk shakes.........
and Hey! I'm from Buffalo also, so howz about picking me?
....now off to look at more of your blog...love asian cooking...serve it a large percentage of the time (my children born in China, they love helping me cook)
and oh yeah, did I mention I REALLY would love that cookbook?????
(insert cheesy grin here)
thanks for the the chance to win
April 28th, 2008 at 9:18 am
Hmmm...I've never been preggo either, but I have two kind of weird combos. First is actually credited to our favorite sushi joint - it's an eel, banana and peanut butter roll. I actually despise bananas, but I love this thing.
Another combo is thanks to my dad, and maybe it's not weird but everyone looks at me odd when I tell them so I dunno - piece of bread, cream cheese and pitted calamata olives on top. Love it.
April 28th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Soft serve ice cream with Golden Grahams cereal sprinkled on top. This was a leftover from my college cafeteria days where you had eaten EVERYTHING in the dining hall and were trying to get through until May when you could go home and eat real food for free at your parents house.
Also, pizza and orange juice. Whenever I have pizza delivered, I always reach for a glass of OJ to go with it.
April 28th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Jaden, I like to dip my bread, bun, biscuit (cream crackers) and prawn/fish cracker in my drink. Be it coffee, fresh orange or coke, it doesn matter to me. usually this wud leave some soggy 'crumbs' in my drink and il eat/drink tht too. i dont find it weird at all but hubby sure does look at me weird and squirm. hehe. its not tht weird, is it?
April 28th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Chocolate chip cookies....
with candied bacon bits.
oh yes.
April 28th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Also, a brownie with a sprinkling of salt on it. (maybe in lieu of all the salted confections that have been coming out lately?)
April 28th, 2008 at 10:47 am
I'm known to dip bacon in ranch and grape jelly. I dunno. It's just good.
April 28th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Bacon dipped in (well, smeared in) cream cheese.
Pretzels dipped in creamy italian salad dressing.
Scrambled eggs and maple syrup (it's the best way to eat scrambled eggs - don't let anyone tell you differently)!
April 28th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Leftover pound cake...with bacon.
April 28th, 2008 at 11:05 am
I love chilli! The spicer, the better
I love stirring sambal chilli into my porridge or congee. My hub can't understand why.
April 28th, 2008 at 11:07 am
It didn't take a pregnancy craving for me to discover the taste sensation of french fries dipped in a chocolate milkshake! I have been eating them that way for years and have happily passed this culinary idiosyncrasy onto my son as well.
April 28th, 2008 at 11:24 am
mmmmm.... love the wierd snacks people are confessing to! Mine are:
PB and Onion with Anchovies, or smoked oysters. Easy on the Pb, and stack it all on Dill Pickle Tasty Mini rice crackers.
Mango dipped in a sauce made from chili garlic sauce/brown sugar/fish sauce. Delish. Cottage cheese drained and mixed into ANYTHING hot (oatmeal especially!) Avocado with marmalade and gasp! processed swiss cheese slices. Hot dogs, with the works (mayo, relish, mustard, ketchup, cheese whiz) dipped in coca cola. Or root beer. Which reminds me, cheddar cheese dipped in root beer. And anything involving bacon. Can't go wrong with bacon. Do alcoholic beverages count as 'food'?
Banana liqueur and mint liqueur with amaretto over ice.
Whiskey with Limeade.... bet you can't have just one! Also great for sneaking tequila into children's birthday parties (um, for the adults!).
1 bottle raspberry vodka, 1 bottle blackberry vodka, 1 bottle dark spiced rum, 1 jug mixed berry juice, 1 jug apple/banana/orange juice= trouble!
And ANY variation on poutine, hell yeah!
April 28th, 2008 at 11:59 am
I think the worst possible flavor combo that I absolutely adore is chicken nuggets with honey. IMO, that's pretty normal compared to some of your other readers combos. Heh... I also like putting maple syrup on bacon. It's that whole sweet and savory thing.
April 28th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
eating lime jello like cereal....in a big bowl of milk.
April 28th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
You really hit a vein with this question! Oddest thing I've eaten: I was about 8 years old, cooking scrambled eggs by myself, thought it would be fun to put in blue food color, which turned them green. Had to close my eyes to eat them... Also about that age, I couldn't pick what to put on my toast so I made stripes of butter, cream cheese and jam... I am amazed how similar people's cravings/odd things are — any analysts out there?
April 28th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Do you think it's wrong that reading all these posts of wild and crazy food is making me soooo hungry? I've seen a few familiar ones in the lists. Here are my favorites:
1) white bread toasted lightly, smear with oodles of peanut butter, and add a layer of dill pickles (sweet pickles will do in a pinch). So good! Have it with a glass of milk.
2) this was a pregnancy thing ... cocktail sauce as salad dressing. I had been sick for so long and had no appetite. Had a taste of cocktail sauce and I thought it was the best thing ever! So I put it on everything on my plate. Doesn't appeal to me now.
3) peanut butter mixed in with plain yogurt, with a little sweetener. So yummy! Add some raspberry jelly and you have PBJ yogurt :-p
Pickles and pate in a baguette, Jaden? That just sounds GOOD!
April 28th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Okay, I have 3...always get wierd looks, but SO good! (and I am a die hard fan of Wendy's fries with a Frosty...but it has to be chocolate!)
1. Peanut butter, mayo, and iceberg lettuce on whole wheat bread. This sandwich reminds me of growing up and it is such a good combo!
2. Fried rice and banana. Just take fried rice and slice a banana on top. Just enough added sweetness...mmmmmm!
3. Oatmeal and baby food. Okay, hear me out on this one. I take a package of instant oatmeal and microwave it to cook it (with a bit less water than called for). Then I add peach baby food. It is a better sweetner than sugar and makes it taste a bit like peach cobbler (to me anyway). Everyone who sees me eat it just think its odd!
April 28th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Ruffles potato chips dipped in plain yogurt...not really an ingredient combination, but definitely up there with french fries and vanilla soft serve!
April 28th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
I really dislike omlettes of all kinds unless its made with fish sauce, onions, and scallions, plus it has to be undercooked, kind of jiggly in the middle. I load on the fish sauce to make it super salty to eat with my rice and cucumber slices. Most people cringe at fish sauce in general but i add it to pretty much everything.