Dishes/food combinations you invented?

Asparagus stir fried in pesto.

Too bad you didn’t say anything about it back then. You could have gotten all the credit. :slight_smile:

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Fish fingers and mint sauce sandwich.
Yum.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sausage and spaetzle are German enough. Sounds yummy.

Me, I invented Hot 'N Spicy Worcesternaise.

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.

My bagel sandwich above should have read “thinly sliced” for both the tomato and the red onion.

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!!!

Except for the bacon, I think that’s a fairly common breakfast item at frou frou places.

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!