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Today I found myself feeling pretty hungry and, in a flurry of kitchen-based stupidity, mixed together a can of tuna, some mayo, garlic powder, a touch of onion powder, some chili powder, and a healthy dash chipotle pepper hot sauce. I then served the abomination with part of it as a sandwich and the rest served on top of some kind of garlic-flavored generic Triscuits. Far from giving me the fatal bout of indigestion that I would have expected, I actually found that the whole concoction was pretty tasty and didn't leave a smoking crater in place of my digestive tract. I was so impressed that I actually wrote down the specifics for the mix a bit later in the recipe book my wife and I keep.

This experience has led me to wonder if anyone else has any experience in randomly mixing together things that happened to be laying around the kitchen and creating foods that, while theoretically dangerous to human life, actually turned out pretty well.

I too love tuna, I remember putting Spicy brown musterd In mine.
A grilled it up with pepper jack cheese, Jelepenos and not sure what kind hotsauce.
The Ensuring stomach pains where worth it.

grayshadow87 wrote:Today I found myself feeling pretty hungry and, in a flurry of kitchen-based stupidity, mixed together a can of tuna, some mayo, garlic powder, a touch of onion powder, some chili powder, and a healthy dash chipotle pepper hot sauce. I then served the abomination with part of it as a sandwich and the rest served on top of some kind of garlic-flavored generic Triscuits. Far from giving me the fatal bout of indigestion that I would have expected, I actually found that the whole concoction was pretty tasty and didn't leave a smoking crater in place of my digestive tract. I was so impressed that I actually wrote down the specifics for the mix a bit later in the recipe book my wife and I keep.

This experience has led me to wonder if anyone else has any experience in randomly mixing together things that happened to be laying around the kitchen and creating foods that, while theoretically dangerous to human life, actually turned out pretty well.

Garlic + onion + chili powder + chipotle all go together in pretty much every tex-mex dish that's ever existed.

tuna + mayo is pretty standard for a tuna salad base.

What you came up with is basically the equivalent of a southwest fish taco.

I have these misadventures all the time. I recently found what could be my masterpiece.

Grilled Cheese with Barbecue. Check this, it is revolutionary. You take two pieces of bread, butter what will be the outsides of it. Then you get two pieces of cheese and you favorite barbecued meat. You put the bread butter down on the pan. Put a slice of cheese on it. Then you slam some Barbecue on it. Then, another slice of cheese and the last piece of bread butter up. Cook until bread is golden brown on both sides.

Enjoy.

Sauerkraut Quesadillas.

 d-usa wrote:
Sauerkraut Quesadillas.

This guy! Sauerkraut is off the hook, especially with some nice sausages.

The steak taco.

Get some taco shells, a few minute steaks and salad etc for the taco filling. Fry the minute steaks for just 30 seconds and quickly insert into hot taco shells, add salad and sauce and consume.

From when I forgot that I needed mince for tacos.

Breadsticks and branston pickle.
Surprisingly tasty.

I have heard of this Branston Pickle... what is it exactly?

For me I used to throw just about anything in a pan with some garlic powder, salt and occasionally BBQ sauce or other random stuff in the pantry. You can make a lot of delicious stir fry ish dishes with random veggies and meat.

@KalashnikovMarine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branston_pickle

My home town's pickle (before it got shipped out). We also have about 5 breweries and we make marmite too. The town smells of yeasty hops.

Branston pickle + spoon = surprisingly tasty

Mars Bar toasted sandwich.

Jam + Philadelphia on biscuits (for when you haven't got cheesecake)

salt, pepper, egg, cheese and mustard on toast - for when cheese toasties just aren't quite enough. (some form of rarebit I believe)

And on no account EVER try spray cream on a cheese and onion crisp. You might not have any cream cheese and chive crisps, but spray cream on a cheese and onion crisp is not a 'rough approximation'. Take it from me. I know.

Lemon scented shaving foam does not taste as good as it smells.
Lemon curd on a rich tea biscuit does.

These are awesome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabanos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloumi

Barbeque sauce and mayo = Official Awesome sauce.

Peanut Butter and Marmite on toast.

Worcestershire sauce + anything heinz.

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
I have heard of this Branston Pickle... what is it exactly?

It's pickle...

I might need to find it to try the stuff.

 purplefood wrote:

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
I have heard of this Branston Pickle... what is it exactly?

It's pickle...
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Its the god of pickles. Its the pickle other pickles look up to.


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PredaKhaine wrote:

These are awesome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabanos

Kabanos in chicken noodle soup is so good on a cold day. Just get some knoore dry soup mix, chop up some kabanos, chuck them in whilst it is cooking and enjoy with plenty of crusty bread.

Branston is what other pickles want to be when they grow up.

Noodle soup needs trying with kabanos - thanks Steve steveson
We've been chucking Kabanos in pasta lately.

These are also good
http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=264080868

peanut butter, lemon curd and crunchy nut cornflake sandwiches...

The only food I have willingly eaten drunk that I will also willingly eat sober...

Cioppino with garlic bread...

Heavenly....

I'm not a big vegetables guy, but I've recently started cooking more due to my dad having to change his diet for health reasons. So I sliced up an onion, laid it down on a baking sheet, a little olive oil, some salt and pepper, with asparagus laid on top, baked at 350 for 30 minutes.

everything is crispy and crunchy, and tastes great.

PredaKhaine wrote:
@KalashnikovMarine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branston_pickle

My home town's pickle (before it got shipped out). We also have about 5 breweries and we make marmite too. The town smells of yeasty hops.

You from Burton upon Trent or are you actually from Branston (which for non UK readers is an area near BoT which the pickle was named after)? I'm from Tamworth originally, so know BoT fairly well (well, the town centre at least - good night out ^_^ )

Haven't been to BoT for ages, but every time you get within a few miles you can smell the Malt ^_^

However, I have had a few random food combinations, such as cheese, the aforementioned pickle, and Honey sandwiches.

Bread, butter, Honey on one slice then cheese, then pickle, then bread and butter for other side ^_^

Cheese has to be mature cheddar (Extra Mature fro preference ^_^ )

Toasted is even better!

Mashed sweet potato with melted cheese and bacon bits mixed in with it.

This one blows all other accidental foods out of the water.

One night, about a year ago, I found myself a bit peckish. I had very little in the fridge, so I picked out a hot dog and put some Squeezy cheese on it, but I soon found I had no bread or buns, but I did have Twinkies.

So i used the Twinkie as the bun. It was the most delicious thing I have ever tried, until I recreated it a week or so later and added bacon.

This one came from a hangover me and my brother suffered from a year or two ago.

Being still drunk/hungover led us to decide that we needed bacon, it would fix everything. It always does.

So we decided lets make some cheese and bacon toasties, for those unfimiliar with a toastie, it is just two toasted bits of bread with some form of filling forced together by the likes of an actual toastie maker or a george foreman grill etc. This creates a sealed pocket of toasted cheesey bacon goodness.

However, being a tad drunk/hungover and over ambitious, led us to decide that we also wanted some sausages and potato waffles also, so I cooked some sausages and bacon up on a grill and my brother, being the genius he is decided to put the Potato waffles straight from the freezer into the toaster at it's maximum setting while I worked on the sausages and bacon.

I thought he was an idiot. I was wrong. So Wrong.

This creates a toastie of such awesomeness that I heavily endorse any and everyone to try it.

Its structure ends up like this:

Toasted Bread - (Preferably butttered)
Cheese - (This melts fast.)
Sausages - (cut in half to make them flatter)
Potato Waffle - (Toasted at max)
Bacon - (Cooked however you like it.)
Toasted Bread - (Preferably butttered)

I will advise however, as you can tell by the ingredients these are not particularly good for you and are also very filling, you will probably be unable to move for a while, but it is so worth it.

Kraft Mac and Cheese made with just butter instead of milk and butter(realized milk went bad after already started). Pretty sure I lost a year or so off my life whenever I made it, but man....Made it with bacon the second/final time , surprised i didnt go into cardiac arrest.

 Aquilanus wrote:

PredaKhaine wrote:
@KalashnikovMarine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branston_pickle

My home town's pickle (before it got shipped out). We also have about 5 breweries and we make marmite too. The town smells of yeasty hops.

You from Burton upon Trent or are you actually from Branston (which for non UK readers is an area near BoT which the pickle was named after)? I'm from Tamworth originally, so know BoT fairly well (well, the town centre at least - good night out ^_^ )

Haven't been to BoT for ages, but every time you get within a few miles you can smell the Malt ^_^

However, I have had a few random food combinations, such as cheese, the aforementioned pickle, and Honey sandwiches.

Bread, butter, Honey on one slice then cheese, then pickle, then bread and butter for other side ^_^

Cheese has to be mature cheddar (Extra Mature fro preference ^_^ )

Toasted is even better!

I'm from a small village just outside of burton. Worked in branston and I've family there - but its just part of burton. Same as winshill and stretton. They've been incorporated...
Randon thought - It's Burton Upon Trent. But it gets shortened to B-O-T? I suppose its better than the alternative. But yes, you can smell when it when you get into burton on the train

And on topic -

Burger with potato waffles instead of bread. And lots of cheese.
And one of my other favourites - Sausage Roll, covered in curry noodles.

The first time I went to Subway, I ordered a meatball sub and they misheard me and got my sauce wrong by giving me honey mustard instead of bbq sauce, complete with a "this sounds crazy but you're paying for it look"

It's now the only thing I'll get from Subway and I've been there like, 4 times since.

I also get a bottle of honey mustard whenever I see it, but it seems pretty rare :(

Whenever the missus is out I make myself a pizza based on whatever we have in the house or fresh in the garden.

Best was probably chicken, onion & fresh chillies, with a base that was one of those fancy, homemade jars of marinated vegies you always end up buying when you go to the country. I made it for the missus the next week and she agreed that jar of mystery stuff resulted in just about the best pizza imaginable. It bothers me to this day that that jar only made like five pizzas total, and we have no idea where the hell we got it from.

 Hordini wrote:
This guy! Sauerkraut is off the hook, especially with some nice sausages.

I got a hot dog from a vendor in San Francisco. It was just your average bun & kind of meat like product, but it came with jalopenos, onion relish and sauerkraut. It was, simply, one of the best things I have ever eaten in my life.

It got me really excited for when we got to New York, figuring if San Fran hotdogs were that good New York hot dogs must be amazing. But they sucked, it was just tomato and mustard.

My "standby" recipe for cheap and easy eats..
1lb ground beef, browned, drained
2 cups cooked rice
1lb bag frozen mixed veg
1/2 cup salsa any strength
Mix over low heat til veggies are cooked. Enjoy.

 Drk_Oblitr8r wrote:
The first time I went to Subway, I ordered a meatball sub and they misheard me and got my sauce wrong by giving me honey mustard instead of bbq sauce, complete with a "this sounds crazy but you're paying for it look"

It's now the only thing I'll get from Subway and I've been there like, 4 times since.

I also get a bottle of honey mustard whenever I see it, but it seems pretty rare :(

As a subway worker, bbq and honey mustered are amazing together. And I know the look you are referring too, although for me its when a customer orders meatballs with extra meat seafood, ughhh

Found this one out when attempting to re-create a subway.

Bread(your choice)

Slice if not already sliced then insert salami(again your choice) and medium mature cheddar cheese(real cheese not your average plastic crap), chilli peppers(i used green) and toast filling side up in 2 halfs until cheese is melted. slap both halfs together then eat. The resulting mouthgasm will blow you off like a slanneshi concubine.

Ladies and gentleman, I would like to share a story of untold epicness with you.
A few years ago, I was sitting and creating some nurgle marines. Suddenly I felt a craving for something to digest.
I made my way to the kitchen, opened the fridge and found a tasty, cold schnitzel, some raspberry jelly, a few tranches of gouda and nutella. I thought "bread, I need some bread!"
Long story short, I took two slices of bread, smeared nutella on it, some raspberry jelly on top, a tranche of cheese ontop, then the schnitzel and sealed it with a second slice of bread.
I feared for the result and took a small bite, praying to Nurgle "Save me from the diarrhea!". Suddenly there was an explosion of tastes in my mouth, it tasted like rainbows and chaos together.
From then on Nurgle was my patron and the Schnitzelbread of Chaos was my companion in countless wars.

In the uk - if you're near a morrisons.

Buy a cooked cumberland sausage.
Buy a cheese topped cob.

Rip open cob, ram sausage in - enjoy