# Dishes/food combinations you invented? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 15, 2013, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-food-combinations-you-invented/658458 "2013-05-15T22:14:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jane\_Elliot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jane_elliot/32/6166_2.png) [@Jane\_Elliot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jane_Elliot)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-food-combinations-you-invented/658458/21 "2013-05-16T14:02:13Z")
Asparagus stir fried in pesto. ---
**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-food-combinations-you-invented/658458/22 "2013-05-16T14:12:33Z")
> [@The\_Conqueror\_Worm](#): > > MrSquishy, I’ve been doing hotdogs, p-nut butter and salsa for years. I used Sriracha 5 or 6 ago. Too bad you didn’t say anything about it back then. You could have gotten all the credit. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-food-combinations-you-invented/658458/23 "2013-05-16T14:18:05Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > **The Ultimate Snack** > > Geisha smoked oysters, Mozzerella cheese slice, Gallo Dry Salami on a Truiscuit. > > I have a friend with heart problems that swears I’m trying to kill him. I don’t get it? Ah, this is really close to what I came to say. Smoked oysters on a Ritz/water cracker with a slice of gruyere cheese and a dollop of dijon mustard. Yummy! ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-food-combinations-you-invented/658458/24 "2013-05-16T14:31:38Z")
Lots of meats go well with peanut butter: Salami Hot dogs Sausages Bacon Also: Peanut butter with chunks of butter and banana in it. Eat it right out of the jar, after being refrigerated. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-food-combinations-you-invented/658458/25 "2013-05-16T14:34:20Z")
Prosciutto sliced about 1/8" thick, buttered with chèvre cheese and rolled up with 1 or 2 stalks of asparagus in the centre. Grill for about 6 minutes, until the prosciutto is almost crispy. Nom, nom. Balsamic vinegar optional. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-food-combinations-you-invented/658458/26 "2013-05-16T14:59:08Z")
Various flavors of Patak curry pastes are quite nice mixed in with mashed potatoes. Also, I’ve really enjoyed mixing grits into my indian foods like chicken Vindaloo or madras. Really adds body to the recipe and you don’t need any rice. Also also, Indian food is good when eaten rolled up in a flour tortilla like a burrito. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-food-combinations-you-invented/658458/27 "2013-05-16T15:13:27Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > Prosciutto sliced about 1/8" thick, buttered with chèvre cheese and rolled up with 1 or 2 stalks of asparagus in the centre. Grill for about 6 minutes, until the prosciutto is almost crispy. Nom, nom. > > Balsamic vinegar optional. We have this all the time but use shredded asiago cheese and a few slices of very thin prosciutto instead of the chevre and thicker prosciutto. This truly rocks it’s so good. ---
**Author:** ![lost\_in\_cyberspace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6a8cbe/32.png) [@lost\_in\_cyberspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost_in_cyberspace)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-food-combinations-you-invented/658458/28 "2013-05-16T19:24:36Z")
Mashed potatoes mixed with cottage cheese, common for perogies, but I just plop cottage cheese on top of my mashed potatoes - YUMMMMMM Mashed potatoes on a salad ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-food-combinations-you-invented/658458/29 "2013-05-16T19:36:04Z")
Two cans chili (we prefer the local store brand, hot, with beans). One can corn. Cheddar cheese, shredded. One pound pasta (bowtie, or large elbows, your choice). Cook the pasta, heat the canned goods, combine, and sprinkle on copious amounts of cheese. You have prepared “Chili Corn Cheese Thing” Named so because we made it one evening early in our marriage, when those were pretty much the only edible things we had in the house. A couple weeks later when we were again scrounging for something to eat, \*\*Rhiannon8404 \*\*said “why don’t we make that chili, corn, cheese thing we had the other day?” Twenty years later, it’s still a favorite comfort food at our house. ---
**Author:** ![Andy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-food-combinations-you-invented/658458/30 "2013-05-16T19:48:35Z")
Fish fingers and mint sauce sandwich. Yum. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-food-combinations-you-invented/658458/31 "2013-05-16T21:55:12Z")
Can’t say my family invted the concept, I think we just took a 70s diet fad and expanded it– In the Push You Down family there is not a cracker or cookie that isn’t fucking 1000 time more delicious when smashed up in a class of milk and eaten with a spoon. Ritz and Saltines are the best for crackers. Oreos and Nillas are the best for crackers. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-food-combinations-you-invented/658458/32 "2013-05-17T00:30:42Z")
Got leftover graham crackers? layer with applesauce, let it sit overnight. it makes a light-as-air kind of mousse. (or you may think it’s just a soggy mess, but I think it’s a nice sort of pudding.) Put some Cool Whip on top, and that’s good eatin, my friends. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-food-combinations-you-invented/658458/33 "2013-05-17T00:41:20Z")
I came up with this open-faced sandwich some years ago. Never seen it anywhere else: A bagel, split and toasted, topped with cream cheese crumbled bacon dry smoked salmon chopped red onion chopped tomato dill weed Great flavor combinations going on there. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-food-combinations-you-invented/658458/34 "2013-05-17T00:44:12Z")
3-in-1 Pizza 3-in-1 is curry, chips (aka fries) and boiled or fried rice in a tray. Dump it on top of a margarita pizza and spread it evenly. You can feel your life shortening as you eat every bite. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-food-combinations-you-invented/658458/35 "2013-05-17T02:31:19Z")
> [@turner](#): > > I make something I call German mac and cheese though there’s not much German about it. I saute some onions, then make a swiss cheese fondue, slice up smoked sausage and mix it all together with homemade spetzle. Bake it for about 25 minutes at 350. Sausage and spaetzle are German enough. Sounds yummy. Me, I invented [Hot 'N Spicy Worcesternaise](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=378075). ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-food-combinations-you-invented/658458/36 "2013-05-17T02:58:05Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > One can of Hormel chili, no beans. Chunks of Velveeta cheese. Microwave together. That was my bachelor staple back in the day. Oh geez! I forgot an essential ingredient! Dump in a can of crushed pineapple with that. So that’s Hormel chili no beans, Velveeta cheese and crushed pineapple. Been awhile since I’ve had that. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-food-combinations-you-invented/658458/37 "2013-05-17T03:07:52Z")
My bagel sandwich above should have read “thinly sliced” for both the tomato and the red onion. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-food-combinations-you-invented/658458/38 "2013-05-17T03:56:14Z")
> [@](#): > > Even easier, I buy potstickers from the hot foods bar at the grocery store, take them home and heat up a can of Campbell’s chicken rice soup (it’s so bland it’s ridiculous) - put in the pot stickers, some soy sauce, and sliced scallions. Now there is decent won ton soup, much better than from a Chinese restaurant. You can throw in shredded carrots, bok choy, and/or water chestnuts, if you just can’t stop. That’s kind of a frightening sodium content there, but it sounds good. Carrots and water chestnuts–blech, but bok choy, esp. the baby bok, would be wonderful!! Oh, and dehydrated black mushrooms!!! ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-food-combinations-you-invented/658458/39 "2013-05-17T16:37:53Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I came up with this open-faced sandwich some years ago. Never seen it anywhere else: > > A bagel, split and toasted, topped with > > cream cheese > crumbled bacon > dry smoked salmon > chopped red onion > chopped tomato > dill weed > > Great flavor combinations going on there. Except for the bacon, I think that’s a fairly common breakfast item at frou frou places. ---
**Author:** ![brainstall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@brainstall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainstall)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-food-combinations-you-invented/658458/40 "2013-05-17T17:07:29Z")
I made a really amazing fishwich wrap for breakfast the other day. Leftover fish sticks (reheated) A couple of leftover fries Mayo Jalapeno Hummus (optional, I added it because it was in the fridge) Scrambled eggs with Cheddar Cheese melted on top Shredded lettuce All wrapped in a burrito shell. Yummm! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-food-combinations-you-invented/658458.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-food-combinations-you-invented/658458.md?page=3)