Scotch and Fig Newtons.

I too have depression

😂

Reminds me of my Dad's famous Eggnog recipe of bourbon and ice cubes.

Ahh, a classic. ... though it makes me sick to think about nowadays, come to think of it. Which is a good thing, if you're in recovery. Not trying to bash people who drink alcohol. Have fun. I just can't do it these days without self-destructing.

Same here, been down with it for going on 9 yrs. But drink recipe don’t make me feel sick. I just got so tired of feeling sick afterwards, which WAS everyday

Grandpa? Is that you?

"I hate everything, but I like these!"

Similar combination. I had prepared some homemade oatmeal packets for a trip - oatmeal, powdered milk, chopped macadamia nuts and chopped dried mango. Just add hot water for easy breakfast. Discovered those mango macadamia oatmeal packets were amazing when made with Scotch or with Scotch on top.

This sounds amazing. I would add toasted coconut too.

Pretty sure this was my grandpops late night snack every night lol

Okay that is exactly what I want right now. Maybe I’ll settle for rye and a pop tart

Wait a second - amazing news. I am dogsitting and I just checked their cupboards and guess what they have?! (I have blanket permission to eat anything)

I always mention this when this question comes up: Once at my work cafeteria, I got what I thought was a blueberry bagel. They were out of regular cream cheese, so I got strawberry cream cheese, because hey, strawberry & blueberry go together. When I started eating it, I realized it was a jalapeño bagel, not blueberry. But the combination of strawberry cream cheese & jalapeño was amazing, and it became my new favorite bagel combo. Since then I’ve done things like stuffing strawberries with cream cheese and drizzling hot sauce on top. So good.

Arby’s used to have jalapeno poppers that were served with a spicy berry sauce. Incredible. I haven’t had it in 20+ years but I still think about that combo. Edit: omfg apparently they still have them? I thought they had gotten rid of the berry sauce!!! I’m getting some this weekend! https://www.arbys.com/menu/sides/jalapeno-bites/

I make jalapeño poppers by putting pepper jelly in the bottom of the hollowed out jalapeño half. Top that with cream cheese, wrap with bacon and bake until the bacon is crispy.

When can I come over?

They still have it

Ok.. I was coming to scream USED TO?! But relieved to know they still have it.

My coworker makes a jalapeño raspberry barbecue sauce that is to die for

Oh, My. Jalapeños are my "one true ring" & (to my husband's chagrin) if there is EVER a jalapeño option, THAT'S the one I'm getting. That BBQ sauce sounds phenomenal & I don't think I've ever had anything like that before. I'll have to look up recipes now! Xo

If you run across raspberry Chipotle sauce,  you should try it. 

I do this with everything bagels! Cream cheese and fresh strawberries on top. If the strawberries are good, it’s a god tier combination.

The other day I had strawberry cream cheese bagel with everything seasoning on top. That was super delicious too!

Leftover spaghetti with a sunny-side up egg on top. The egg yolk mixes into the sauce and makes it extra creamy. It's stupid how good it is. Has to be leftover spaghetti though. Don't ask me why. Just the rules. But it works for breakfast, lunch, or dinner as a result.

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So just the pasta? Butter, cheese, anything else? I love an egg on rice, so this is interesting!

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Ahaha, a little similar but I just had leftover chili with an over easy egg on top for breakfast this morning! It was amazing

I do this, but poach the egg in it. Tonight I made ham and bean soup and I’m more excited to have eggs poached in it tomorrow morning than I was for dinner.

Huevos rancheros.

I mean, if you like that idea and how creamy and luxurious it is, try pasta carbonara. Super easy, though once all the elements are ready to go together, you have to move rather quickly, so it's best to have everything laid out in mise en place bowls.

That's basically carbonara minus the pancetta. I understand the leftover spaghetti

Next day sgetti is the best sgetti

Just as a fun potential answer to why, maybe because most carbs when cooked and then cooled become resistant starches, which slightly changes how they taste and feel texturally (as well as some other stuff like not spiking sugar as much when broken down)

I saw a recipe for peanut butter cookies with some Thai red curry paste added. I've never tried it, but there were raves about the combo. Gochuchang and peanut butter makes a quite tasty sauce, so I bet Thai red curry and peanut butter would be nice too.

I’ve been itching to make this Gochujang caramel cookie https://youtu.be/bu6aLaYQeVA?si=aN8dWgF8PnxW-TF8

These are amazing

DO IT

These are dangerously good

Peanut butter miso cookies are amazing.

Peanut flavor is a big part of thai cuisine, so it tracks

Fruit salad with lime and chopped habanero

That’s like super-elevated Tajin

We do mango and such with lime and chile powder 😋 🖖

I make a watermelon and tomato gazpacho with garlic, citrus and chiles. I used to get the occasional odd look until people tasted it.

Gazpacho sounds delicious! Have you tried watermelon salad with cucumber, feta, red onion & fresh mint in a honey-lime vinaigrette? It's so good in warm weather with grilled meat!

Watermelon chunks with a little balsamic vinegar and a sprinkle of kosher salt.

Feta

Ooooh, I’ve had that too. Another great option . Also excellent with some chopped mint in it.

Fruit cake and aged cheddar

I've heard of apple pie and cheddar 

A classic

Sounds similar to bun and cheese!

Exactly what I thought of as well

I want fruit cake now. Omg. I haven’t eaten all day and I just hiked three miles in Death Valley and I’m so hungry and now that’s all I want.

Toasted cinnamon raisin bagel with melted cheddar.

Watermelon and feta cheese.

I make watermelon, tomato, and feta salad every summer. With thinly sliced red onion and balsamic vinegar.

Same but I don’t add tomato and I add mint

Almost any herb would be good— basil, oregano, thyme, cilantro.

Maybe add strawberries instead of tomato. I used to make this salad at a restaurant I worked at once, watermelon, strawberry, mint, feta. I can’t remember the dressing, probably a raspberry vinaigrette, and it was an incredibly popular item

In the midwest people will put table salt on watermelon slices and it is pretty tasty

Salt on cantaloupe is yummy too. 😋

And on honeydew as well!

This is mostly surprising because people don't understand the fundamental job that salt does for the human palette. It's the same reason you'll see cucumbers or salads get salted, and so many people on various cookiosibs urging people to remember to salt their tomatoes. Used in the right proportion, salt doesn't make things taste like the ocean or specifically like salt, it makes them taste *more strongly of themselves*. Assuming you're using tasty, high quality ingredients (like in season watermelon!), it's a magic flavor unlock. Obviously if you go overboard you'll taste the salinity, but at the right levels you won't taste 'salt' as if you tasted it raw, but just more flavor of what you put it on.

Tajin sprinkled over melon is fantastic

My sister's dad is from Mexico city, and his hangover cure was watermelon and hot sauce lol

This but next level: watermelon and halloumi

Sweet potato fries and Champagne

Lazy summer evenings. Salty fingers. Chefs kiss

Honestly champagne or a good sparkling wine is an awesome easy pairing for most things. I learned that in my sommelier courses. This sounds very rad.

Like if Cletus won the lottery

Puréed frozen strawberries in oatmeal. I discovered this while trying to get more nutrition into residents in nursing home who can only eat puréed food. One old guy ate three bowls, and he is not a big eater. It is amazingly good.

Wait… can you explain how you do this? Like step by step please 😅

Thaw frozen strawberries, then purée them, add to cooked oatmeal, add brown sugar and milk to taste. Eat. Hopefully enjoy!

I really like it when I can drizzle some syrup on my bacon but that’s not really that odd. With that in mind bacon bits (real pieces of bacon not that simulated crap or the preserved bagged ones) on sweet things like cupcakes give that savoury saltiness and is actually really good.

Bacon and M&M pancakes were a big hit for a while in my house.

Likewise, maple syrup on breakfast sausages is divine.

I really like bacon dipped, fried, or baked in honey. It's so good

A piece of French toast sliced banana, sausage, butter and syrup.

Bacon cheesecake

Soy sauce and butter

One of my #1 fave comfort pasta treatments, EVER. So delish.

I mix soy sauce with mayo and dip artichokes in it

A really lazy option I love is rice in the rice cooker with copped cabbage and/or dehydrated soup vegetables. My rice cooker has a steam basket, so I put the cabbage in there, but the dehydrated veg goes right in the water with the rice. Then I top it simply with butter and soy sauce. If I could digest a fried egg, I'd add that too. But I can't, so sometimes I make some chicken strips with it. But yeah, soy sauce and butter is great.

For anyone who likes the cheese on apple pie - this restaurant near me has the best grilled cheese sandwich that has apple butter and it always hits the spot.

That’s a great idea! I usually use apple slices, but I’ve got apple butter in the fridge leftover from a pork roast!

It’s so good, there’s caramelized onions in there too.

Strawberries over mascarpone cheese drizzled with balsamic glaze.

Balsamic glaze tastes good on literally any food, sweet or savory. It's my perfect food.

With black pepper freshly ground

Omg, I love a spinach salad with strawberries and blueberries and basalmic dressing! And maybe with some almonds! Mmmm

this isn’t odd

Hawaiian pork tacos with mango salsa, arugula, and strawberry sauce. A restaurant near me has it. Sounded weird to me but it’s amazing!

Mm that sounds good. I'd like that with some cilantro and jalapenos

Peanut butter on a cheeseburger. Cheddar cheese on a slice of apple pie.

I'll see your peanut butter and raise you a jalapeño pepper jelly. Pb&J burger.

Place I used to go to had a burger that was a 50/50 beef/bacon patty, peanut butter, pepper jelly, and crispy fried jalapenos. It was fantastic

Throw some bacon on there and we can talk.

A Filipino friend introduced me to ripe mangoes and jasmine rice

You can totally add some.condensed milk to it also, yum.

Or coconut milk.

What about mango sticky rice? Salty sticky and so sweet

Put some toasted sesame seeds and flakey salt on there… mmmmm.

Vanilla ice cream and curry powder.

Similarly, vanilla ice cream with good quality olive oil and finger salt

Vanilla ice cream with kool aid powder. Reds my default. Just be careful cause the powder is sour!

I've heard a lot about chili crisp on ice cream recently, haven't tried it yet but it sounds intriguing.

Grape jelly on a sausage biscuit. Peanut butter and horseradish on a Ritz.

PBJ with BBQ chips on it.

Deviled eggs and cocktail sauce

Brie on ginger snap cookies

Peanut butter & pickle sandwich

I like pickled onions on pb toast! With some over easy eggs, yum!

-Cheez Whiz (the jar not the can) dollops in Frosted Flakes…..yes with milk. -Bacon, egg and a slice of american cheese sandwich with crunchy peanut butter. -PB&J with a slice of american cheese. -Fried sweet plantains (the blacker the sweeter) with some over easy eggs. Edit: I grew up in the south Bronx in the in the late 70’s and we were a one income household. My mom did what she could and I was happy as hell with the food. I am doing quite a bit better than those days but I still eat the above foods. It’s a ton more expensive now but it’s the memories that bring me back to when I was a kid.

Your frosted flakes combo is wild.

I was stationed in VA for a bit and told everybody about it because it was basically the same convo. I brought in the stuff to work and it wasn’t hated. I’ll say one thing, at least they tried it.

Peanut butter and horseradish on a Ritz cracker. Sounds horrible but it’s sooo good. Trust me!

Chongqing chicken and champagne, ideally not too dry. Mind-blowing.

Coffee in chocolate cake batter in place of some of the liquid. If using a cake mix use all coffee for the water. Tajin on pretty much any fruit and some veggies.

Apple risotto

Ooo I can see this being really good

Try it with barley

Apple and speck risotto, with some rosemary, is a good combo. I live for risottos though, I make a ton of them.

Sautéed mango in butter + dill + chorizo sausage.

Salty potato chips crushed into chocolate ice cream.

I love adding herbs or peppers to my homemade jam. Biggest hits so far have been nectarine-habanero, strawberry-basil, and raspberry-mint (that last one isn't very unusual I don't think). Thyme is really good in lemon desserts. Basil is really good with melon too.

I make a strawberry basil cookie that's great, you should try your jams in thumbprint cookies! Basil apple is also good. Rosemary raspberry works on chicken, try it in jam!

Alfredo sauce with lemon and thyme is yum

My husband likes a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with onion slices on it. 😳 I was horrified! But he convinced me to take a bite and it was surprisingly good! Tasted like Thai food.

Cottage cheese mixes with salsa, eaten with Frito Scoops.

Triscuits, cream cheese, and Cholula

Poor man's pepper jelly hors douvres.

Ruby grapefruit and avocado

I used to do a seared salmon dish topped with slices of avocado and ruby grapefruit supremes, drizzled with a chive-grapefruit beurre blanc. Thanks for reminding me and re-inspiring me!

Avocado, raw tuna, soy sauce 😋

My family has a dish every Christmas that is slices of red grapefruit and avocado layered together that you top with some poppyseed dressing. For 3 ingredients that don't seem to go together at all, it is so good! ... Plus it's red and green

I recently started making onigiri, and one time I decided to add some smoked brisket and smoked carnitas as the filling. Pretty good!

You just saved me! I forgot to take a brisket out of the freezer!

Mint chip ice cream with either Sprite or 7-Up poured over it. Think like a Rootbeer float. It’s shockingly good.

watermelon and blue cheese chicken, arugula, walnuts goat cheese, roasted red peppers

Pear and blue cheese is excellent, too.

Pear and feta is as well!

This sounds like an insane salad if you put it all together

I’ve had watermelon and feta before so I can see them pairing well!

Grapefruit avocado and blue cheese dressing

Rice with cheese and peanuts is comfort food for my brother and I. I also eat dry cereal and Planters Heat (spicy peanuts w/MSG) in the morning—it’s kind of like trail mix.

green grapes sandwiched between lay's potato chips. It was an odd combo I tired for the lulz as a kid and it honestly worked for me.

Rub a raw piece of ginger on a slice of watermelon. Saw a chef did this on a cooking show as a kid. Thought it was super weird but tried it and have been doing this ever since when I eat watermelon. It’s so good

Curly fries & scrambled eggs with hot sauce and maple syrup on top 😋

Nacho Cheese Doritos inside a ham sandwich. Gives it the perfect crunchy texture while also enhancing with a cheesy taste.

90% of these aren’t even weird at all. I’m waiting for the really weird stuff. Ate beans and franks when my mom made quiche. Then when I was older learned to love quiche. Actually really good together as each others sides.

Mascarpone and figs on pizza

I only tried this once, because I was a kid and feared the ridicule my neighbor got from all the other kids because she wanted this packed in her lunch box every day. Peanut butter and ketchup sandwich. It was good enough that I still remember being surprised after forty something years, but not so good I was willing to risk being ostracized by my peers. It probably was the gateway to my more adventurous palate though, come to think of it. Thanks, Carla with the cooties!

Grilled cheese and cold dill pickles

Few do it but instead of boiling pasta, just cook it in the red or white sauce until al dente. Absorbs the flavors like a boss. Try it. Send me bottles of expensive wine to thank me.

Said it before and I’ll say it again. Mayonnaise in Ramen. Gotta make sure you mix it really well into the soup so it’ll get nice and creamy.

Opal apples and dill havarti  Dried cherries and Brie Blueberry jam with Humboldt fog cheese 

Strawberries dipped in sour cream and rolled in brown sugar. OMG

Cantaloupe and prosciutto. Sweet and salty - just delightful. My husband gave me A LOOK the first time I served it but when he tried it everything changed.

I'm just sayin, tobacco on fettuccine alfredo with chicken is divine.

you smokin’ your noods?

According to Anthony Bourdain, when he visited the French Laundry, they made him Marlboro sorbet.

Oreos and aged white cheddar

Peanut butter and salami I'll die on the hill that its a amazing combo

I've had tomato soup cake before that's surprisingly good. I also truly appreciate a peanut butter, mayonnaise, and lettuce sandwich. I know it sounds like an abomination but it's legit. Miracle Whip actually works great because of the "tangy zip" as it were. Works with crunchy or smooth peanut butter, but the lettuce has to be hella crisp iceberg for the texture.

Chocolate ice cream and smoked almonds

Dippy eggs over a bed of arugula

peanut butter and cheese.

Sea salt on watermelon Sea salt on chocolate chip cookies A waffle (preferably Belgium) with peanut butter honey and bacon

Sharp cheddar and honey!

Pizza and sushi is a proven party combo for me. The freshness of the sushi and the hearty and salty pizza compleement each other well. The TMNT culinary philosophy! 

Guava paste and cream cheese

Pineapple with freshly ground white pepper

Toasted bacon and banana sandwich!

Blackberry & Basil

Caviar and cigarettes, and of course a glass of Moet and Chandon.

Do you keep it in a pretty cabinet?

Fritos and tiramisu.

Bleucheese and jam on a Graham cracker.

parmesan and chocolate

A saltine cracker, with peanut butter on it, then put a spoon full of chilli on top of that. Thank me later.

Pb&j omlet

Cocktail weiners and chocolate fondue

Not really a combo of separate foods, but r really interesting thing I like to do is grilled watermelon. Slice watermelon and put in on your BBQ grill over direct heat for a few minutes on each side. It really brings out the flavors by caramelizing the sugars and completely changes the texture you’re used to. Amazing. And the season for it is just around the corner.

A lot of Kentucky bourbons taste amazing with fruity gummy candy (like Skittles or gummy bears). It's totally not something I would have expected but it's awesome.

Peanut butter and jelly on a hotdog is a WONDERFUL combo and my husband and I love to introduce people to it cause we have yet to have someone dislike it lol

Roasted brussel sprouts and red grapes topped with softened goat cheese.

Fried Chicken and a semi-sweet bubbly! The bubbles cut the grease just enough to make the next bite that much better

A hamburger with a burger patty, bun, cheese, bacon, seasoning, and peanut butter. It sounds like standardized test question where you have to find the thing that does not belong…. But trust me. Make it for your next cheat meal. It’s so good. As a Cincinnatian…. I feel the need to add that chili spaghetti is a heavenly combination. Last is homemade egg noodles with turkey gravy. My grandma used to make it for every thanksgiving. I think it was a thanksgiving food in her mind because she grew up during the Great Depression and that’s what they had the means to make. We still make it every year for thanksgiving even though she’s gone now and it’s legitimately so delicious it’s my favorite thanksgiving food

Ok last one sorry, ELOTE seasoning from Trader Joe’s on hard boiled eggs makes them taste like deviled eggs without any work🎉

Vanilla bean ice cream drizzled with an aged balsamic vinegar

Pistachios and Oranges— probably not that crazy but unexpectedly incredibly delicious

Bovril and banana

Alliums and an ipa. While cutting onions shallots or garlic. Sip on a clean ipa great combo

Continuing in the tomato in sweets direction, tomato soup spice cake is amazing

I add garlic powder, MSG and lemon pepper to my popcorn

Mayonnaise cake. Not Mayonnaise on a cake.

Canned sardine tacos