What combinations of food have you run across that really work well together?
Me? I’ve found that for some reason, eating bacon with my morning coffee seems to work very well together. My guess is that it’s the same thing going on with salted coffee, but I’m not 100% sure.
Hummus and feta cheese together is incredibly good! Both taste pretty good with cabbage, too.
Also, when I cut up Granny Smith apples and add lime juice (to keep them from browning), I sometimes add a little bit of cinnamon as well, and the sour-sweet-spicy thing works surprisingly well.
Near where I used to work is a restaurant that served a really good, really messy BBQ beef sandwich. No idea as to the sauce but it washed down with Diet Dr Pepper tasted remarkably like Red Hots.
Now I want one of those sandwiches. Unfortunately, the quality of the beef had dropped last time I was there.
Hershey’s Chocolate and a hot sauce like Tabasco or Louisiana. Yeah, they did a similar thing hundreds of years ago in Central America, but when I found it for myself, it was serendipitous.
When I was in grade school, one of the (meatless) Friday staples in our school cafeteria was macaroni and cheese paired with harvard beets. It was one of the few meals I actually liked, and to this day, I’ve got to have harvard beets with my mac and cheese (and the mac and cheese has to be homemade from scratch).
When I started junior college in 1974, I went to the cafeteria for lunch my first day. I selected a dish of cherry jello, and the lady behind the serving line (possibly fucking with my head) asked me if I was going to have salad dressing on it. I’d never heard of such a thing, but I figured she knew her business, and asked her to recommend one. She poured a ladle of bleu cheese dressing over it, and I LOVED it!
Also, a hot fudge sundae made with orange sherbet instead of vanilla ice cream.
And a dipping-sized corn chip with a slice of banana.