Unusual combinations of ingredients that are unexpectedly good

I was just enjoying some organic cheddar and harissa earlier.

Here's one, the PBJB sandwich:

Peanut butter, strawberry jam and crisp bacon. (Even better made with cashew butter.)

 

Anyone else put Branston pickle and English mustard on their Tuna salad sandwiches? Thought not......

 

Watermelon dusted with menthol cough drop candy powder

 

Harissa is like ketchup for Tunisian, they seriously put it everywhere.

They're also doing couscous with fish rather than veal and lamb (which are often used in original couscous region in central algeria) and it's pretty good also pretty confusing if you're used to standard couscous.

Marocan do something called pastilla, it's hard to prepare but it implies wild pidgeon/quail, cinnamon, peanut, powdered sugar, and it's damn fine I can't urge people to try a good one.

In France we have tournedos Rossini (name given in honor of the musicien) which is tournedos and foie gras together and it's amazing.

Canard à l'orange too, and we put on foie gras fig jam or garlic kind of jam and it add than something on it.

 

try peanut butter with sambal

 

And I can't tell you how good grape is with specific type of cheese.

 

True !

I was in Barcelona two month ago and I ate this (flowers + strawberry + avocado ice cream + balsamic vinegar with tuna tataki) and the whole was really surprising but really good top.

 

I have a Fig tree and it provides wonderful fruit. Fig Jam with some Lemon zest and Habanero Chilies, OFF THE CHARTS!

Oh and on a slice of Asiago Cheese............

 

Stack it like this:
Pancake, Bacon, Pancake, Over Easy Eggs, smother in Real Maple Syrup, and a healthy dose of Tabasco Sauce.

Oh Baby! That's how to start your day!

 

A1 sauce on spam

 

Peanut butter and gochujang (Korean chili paste) sandwiches are great, especially with a little sprinkle of sesame oil.

Dino, one of my favorite restaurants in DC (now closed), used to have a dessert that was vanilla gelato topped with thick, syrupy, ancient, sour-cherry-and-tobacco-tasting balsamic vinegar. The combination of flavors was absolutely amazing; it commanded rapt attention.

 

Throw a fried egg into the mix and its even better..

 

BenGay and anchovies

 

Oatmeal with hot sauce or other savory ingredients

 

Drink chocolate milk when you're snacking on Cheetos.

 

Lots of peanut butter love here too but I guess I don’t think of it as too unusual. It’s on my essentials of life list.
Someone mentioned cheese and bananas. Depending on the ripeness of the banana the cheese possibilities can be vast. My last eureka banana moment was one just shy of fully ripe when you can still taste some green flavor paired with a pecorino calabrese.

 

Okay.............as a kid, my Mom used to make us grilled cheese (velveeta slices ONLY) with grape jelly on top. Delicious, with a side of tomato soup on a COLD COLD rainy day.

Not joking. Fantastic.

 

When I was a kid my mom would put pork & beans on buttered white bread for my lunch.