Just tried pouring some ginger ale in my lemonade (homemade). 10/10, much better than I wouldn’t thought
Make your a salami sandwich with the following steps.
- Toast the bread.
- pan fry the salami slices til their a little crispy on the edges.
- spread hummus on the bread once it’s toasted.
- 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.
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.
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.
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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.
Strawberries and black pepper. You’re welcome.
Basically everything sweet with hot seasoning. One of my favorites: Mango with Chili! :-)
Your Hispanic is showing
lol I take it as a compliment, because my country of origin is not known for its kitchen. :-P
it is a compliment XD
One of my favorite grocery store salsas is spicy mango!
Currently I have a spicy pineapple salsa but that’s not as good because it’s “white” salsa, no tomatoes
Just tried this for the first time after learning about it from your comment. Pretty good! 👍
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.
I’d go one further; strawberry chilli sorbet. sweet strawberry, hot and cold at the same time… perfection
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.
I believe this is a multi choose problem. 200C2 is 19,900. 200C3 is 1,313,400. You’ve tried all 1,333,300 combinations? More actually for the items that were tried but didn’t make the cut. I want the list this sounds like a culinary masterpiece
Are you willing to share the curated list? 🤞🏻
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.
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.
Quince and cheese on crackers is a common thing, so jam cheese and bread just seems normal to me too…
This is just a poor person’s strawberry cheesecake, I don’t judge.
Half pure orange juice and half cola.
Sounds similar to “Spezi”, a mixture of cola and orange soda, which is quite popular here in Germany.
Fuck u/spezi
Oh wait, sorry, knee-jerk reaction. Carry on.
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.
Chicago corn (cheddar popcorn mixed with caramel corn). Sounds weird - is awesome.
Yes! This combo is awesome!
Garrett was our favorite stop on the food tour!
A fried egg on top of just about anything
Popcorn and pickles. Worked with a pregnant lady who had a craving for these together and, well, she wasn’t wrong.
Wouldn’t that make the popcorn soggy?
Yeah but soggy popcorn is good.
Not if you eat it right away!
Both of these are established dishes, so I don’t know if I could call them unexpected, but:
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Jalapeno chocolate fudge cake, tried on a whim at a restaurant. Thought it might be a disaster, but hot stuff and sweet (and fatty) stuff works surprisingly well together. I suppose that it’s kind of closer to how the Mesoamericans used to originally eat cocoa, which could be with chilis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_cuisine#Cacao
Chocolate could be prepared in a huge variety of ways and most of them involved mixing hot or tepid water with toasted and ground cacao beans, maize and any number of flavorers such as chili, honey, vanilla and a wide variety of spices.[31]
The ingredients were mixed and beaten with a beating stick or aerated by pouring the chocolate from one vessel to another. If the cacao was of high quality, this produced a rich head of foam. The head could be set aside, the drink further aerated to produce another head, which was also set aside and then placed on top of the drink along with the rest of the foam before serving.
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Five Guys does a milkshake with bacon sprinkles that I thought sounded like it could be pretty gross, but crunchy salty apparently works with sweet fatty as well. Goes somewhat downhill as the bacon looses its crispness, though. Be interesting if there’s some sort of waterproof coating that one could put on it. (“chocolate-coated bacon bits?”)
Chocolate and chipotle pepper go together very well too.
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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.
A few weeks ago I poured some cane sugar coke in a half-drunk glass of Port and all my friends looked at me like I was crazy when I said it wasn’t half bad
That tracks, but with port I feel like it’d be super sugary.
Oh for sure. Like a wine/cola syrup
Otoh do not try mixing beer and wine it is awful. Truly truly awful.
That I can believe. I’ve only mixed them in the sense of generally making bad decisions in a night.
Mead and an IPA is great though and called a “Braggot”
In my country we call it bamboo for some reason.
That’s interesting and weird! Guessing from your name, is it Slovenia?
Yup.
PB & J, I mean yeah, tried and true, but it’s odd that peanuts and berries go well together when both are squished 😅
Try sunflower seed butter and honey!
Wait til you try PB and cheddar
If I try this and it doesn’t taste good, so help me, I will write a strongly worded letter. I might even say “heck”.
You better wash your mouth out with soap after that vulgar display. This is the internet, we are only kind and happy towards others!
Whiskey and black licorice.
Right after too-salty popcorn, this is one of my go-tos when watching a movie–especially with a peaty scotch.
Roasted cauliflower and chocolate. I like to dust coco powder in the last 3 min.
Raisins and anchovies.
Mushrooms and coffee.
Garlic, chocolate, and coffee.
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.
Hummus and pesto. Just dump some pesto in your hummus and thank me later. You can buy both, obviously, but you can also easily make both from scratch so it can be super cheap once you have the core ingredients. It’s basically no harder than making a smoothie.
Bonus: basil grows whether you want it to or not, at least in most climates. If you have a spice garden, you kind of have to keep basil from dominating. But it also makes an excellent, cheap gift. When I was younger, I had a basil plant that lived for a few years and got huge and I just brought clippings instead of wine (or whatever) to parties. I saved tons of money and no one has ever been like, “Get the fuck out of here with that fresh basil.”
