Just tried pouring some ginger ale in my lemonade (homemade). 10/10, much better than I wouldn’t thought

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    Make your a salami sandwich with the following steps.

    1. Toast the bread.
    2. pan fry the salami slices til their a little crispy on the edges.
    3. spread hummus on the bread once it’s toasted.
    4. add the crispy salami, some lettuce, and seasoned tomato to your sandwich and enjoy.

    People look at me sideways for using hummus as a sandwich spread, but it’s delicious.

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      This is one of those recipes that I have to stop and ask what’s wrong with the people in your life that they can’t assess hummus, a spread frequently served on breads, with the same eyes they use on any other spread. They wouldn’t think twice if you served them a board with all the listed ingredients as a grazing spread.

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        An opened container of hummus doesn’t really keep all that well. I mean, that’s normal for a chip dip, where you expect to kind of go through one container pretty quickly, but most sandwich spreads will last for ages.

        considers

        I guess one could maybe try adding some sort of preservatives to improve the shelf life, if one’s doing homemade hummus in a food processor.

        EDIT:

        https://old.reddit.com/r/foodscience/comments/476xdr/preservatives_for_hummus/

        Acid will help preserve the hummus against bacterial growth. Hummus has a pretty high pH so the more lemon you can add the better. Cooking it before storing or using canned chickpeas instead of dried may help too. Canned chickpeas have been retorted to be sterile while dried ones may still contain some bacterial spores. Your hummus may also go bad because the fats inside spoil. Refrigerating or freezing will slow this process but it’s ultimately inevitable. Adding an antioxidant would help reduce this. The lemon juice contains citric acid which will act as an antioxidant. Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) would help too, though it will make it taste sour. Rosemary essential oil (a tiny drop will do) is a powerful antioxidant that would also help preserve your hummus. Lots of preservatives are totally natural–heat and acidity tend to be the best and most accessible preservatives.

        I also have a bottle of citric acid for preserving syrups that I suspect would work.

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      Basically everything sweet with hot seasoning. One of my favorites: Mango with Chili! :-)

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      Just tried this for the first time after learning about it from your comment. Pretty good! 👍

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      Sadly, strawberry season is gone where I am and I can’t wait to try this out. This year, i discovered that coriander goes very well with strawberries to make pesto. I ate 10 times more strawberries this year than my previous average.

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    I have a 200 item list of grazing board foods that I’ve personally mixed and sampled every single 2 and 3 item combination and curated every item to be acceptable to delicious in 3 part combos.

    By far the two strangest combos to any guest are the spicy salami and the dark chocolate on baguette bread or the rum dates and stone stone-ground mustard on butter cracker.

    The sweet and bitter of the chocolate mixes so well with the oilly spice of the meat, and the baguette bridges the textures to provide a comfortable mouthfeel by soaking it in.

    For the second, the vinegar and tang of the mustard heighten the rum without taking away the sweet paste of the dates and the cracker provides enough texture to not feel like you’re eating sauce and enough salt to soften the vinegar and alcohol bite.

    Honestly, it’s my favorite dinner even because it’s so much fun to watch people look at you in horror when you suggest they try something, then try it and see that horror melt away into absolute wonder.

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    Toast with mayo and powdered chocolate (Nesquik). Still not sure if my cousins were trying to pull a prank on me but it turned out to be one of my favourite childhood meals.

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    My friend worked at Subway for a few years and after a while you try weird stuff just to see if it’s good, and one of the best things is an oatmeal raisin cookie wrapped in pepper jack cheese.

    Also sharp cheddar on apple pie is a Yankee tradition and really good.

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    As a kid I remember jam (probably strawberry) and cheese (Cheddar or red Leicester) sandwiches being pretty awesome. For manifold reasons, peanut butter was not something made available to me back then, so that would be the closest our house ever got to that.

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      I was also a weird kid mixing jam and cheese (even grape jelly and American cheese) on sandwiches to the abject horror of parents and kids alike.

      I’ve taken it to adulthood with cream cheese and Peruvian pepper jam (just a light spread) on a savory bagel.

      Nowadays, if you “pair” jam and cheese on a cracker instead of bread, you can avoid the weird looks entirely and even seem sophisticated.

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      Quince and cheese on crackers is a common thing, so jam cheese and bread just seems normal to me too…

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    Try dunking cookies in tea. Or orange juice. I love both but I get strange looks when I tell people.

    OTOH a few people have told me peanut butter and cheddar cheese make a great sandwich. I tried once, was not a fan.

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    Feta and watermelon

    Cantelope and prosciutto

    Anchovies in Ranch dressing (make it fresh, you animals)

    Goldschlager and Cuervo Gold tequila as a shaken shot (tastes like snickerdoodles)

    Pancakes topped with yogurt and honey or pistachio butter

    Georgian pesto is walnuts and cilantro, 10/10

    Peanut butter in a tomato stew sends it in an African direction, and it’s amazing

    Deep fried olives filled with cheese

    Salmon marinated in bourbon, touch of soy sauce, and brown sugar, baked.

    Anchovies and capers on your pizza if you wear big boy pants

    Red wine and coca cola if you’re 14

    Candied pine cones and creme brulé is 1 million percent magic

    Cheez-its and canned whipped cream tastes exactly like if you asked ChatGPT to describe what cheesecake tastes like.

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      I don’t like Brussel sprouts. Not even after they have been selecting them for sweet not bitter over the last 30 years.

      But… It is not really surprising that Salmon and roasted Brussel sprouts go good together. I mean this is not an uncommon pairing is it?

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    Wendy’s French fries dipped in their frosty. It was at least a good combination twenty years ago …

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    Kalimotxo. It’s red wine and cola in roughly equal parts, to taste. It’s a great way to salvage old wine that’s a day or two past drinkable, especially on a hot day.

    I described it once on reddit in the before times, and someone called it a “shit red wine spritzer” and I think that’s kinda apt.

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      Sounds similar to “Spezi”, a mixture of cola and orange soda, which is quite popular here in Germany.

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        Orange soda is very different from pure orange.

        Extra tip: use pulpy pure orange so you get little bits floating around in the brown drink. It adds extra texture. It looks absolutely disgusting, but it tastes great.

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    Chicago corn (cheddar popcorn mixed with caramel corn). Sounds weird - is awesome.