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Re: Foodstuffs which individually are fine, but should never be paired
« Reply #125 on: 16 January, 2017, 05:17:03 pm »
Understand that I can and will eat my own body weight in crisps (admittedly, as Moby's stunt double, I have to keep my svelte figure as I'm on call for any international DJ emergencies that Moby can't attend).

Chips though, after the first few mouthfuls, they're just stodgy, claggy potato. Oh I know, there's some superstar-chef somewhere hexatuple frying them in rendered humpback whale fat for extra crispness, and then slicing them them with an ultramicrotome into monomolecular wafers that you can inhale. But I'm talking nuclear stodge from the local chippy.

Mind you, I know stodge. I grew up eating chips and rice with curry sauce and, on top, a potato fritter. The curry sauce was rather daring in my home town, I think the chippy kept it under the counter.

According to Geoffrey Steingarten (the Man Who Ate Evertyhing) the correct fat for cooking chips is that from around a Parisian police horse's kidneys.

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Re: Foodstuffs which individually are fine, but should never be paired
« Reply #126 on: 16 January, 2017, 10:52:54 pm »
Coming late to this thread. There is such a thing as a food wheel where tastes are diametrically opposite. It is the gastronomic equivalent of a colour wheel. Some strange combinations do emerge. Cold Lincolnshire sausages in chocolate sauce. Spinach and marmalade quiche.

Rather good actually..
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Re: Foodstuffs which individually are fine, but should never be paired
« Reply #127 on: 16 January, 2017, 10:55:31 pm »
Coming late to this thread. There is such a thing as a food wheel where tastes are diametrically opposite. It is the gastronomic equivalent of a colour wheel. Some strange combinations do emerge. Cold Lincolnshire sausages in chocolate sauce. Spinach and marmalade quiche.

Rather good actually..

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Re: Foodstuffs which individually are fine, but should never be paired
« Reply #128 on: 18 January, 2017, 11:02:49 am »
^
I have this book.
If you are into making up your own recipes, it is incredibly useful.

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Re: Foodstuffs which individually are fine, but should never be paired
« Reply #129 on: 21 January, 2017, 11:44:33 am »
Anything baked by Letitia Cropley?

Or have we had that already...?
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Re: Foodstuffs which individually are fine, but should never be paired
« Reply #130 on: 18 March, 2017, 05:00:35 pm »
Sweet potato and halibut, or fish in general.
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Re: Foodstuffs which individually are fine, but should never be paired
« Reply #131 on: 18 March, 2017, 05:49:40 pm »
Apparently you're not supposed to mix cheese and fish, but I do like a tuna mayo sarnie with some grated cheddar mixed in.
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Re: Foodstuffs which individually are fine, but should never be paired
« Reply #132 on: 18 March, 2017, 05:50:52 pm »
Uhh? Cod Mornay?

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Re: Foodstuffs which individually are fine, but should never be paired
« Reply #133 on: 18 March, 2017, 06:18:52 pm »
Uhh? Cod Mornay?

OK, but cod is already disgusting.
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Re: Foodstuffs which individually are fine, but should never be paired
« Reply #134 on: 20 March, 2017, 09:43:34 pm »
Apparently you're not supposed to mix cheese and fish, but I do like a tuna mayo sarnie with some grated cheddar mixed in.


Pizza with anchovies - that's nice. (though apparently some find it controversial)
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Re: Foodstuffs which individually are fine, but should never be paired
« Reply #135 on: 20 March, 2017, 10:18:15 pm »
Apparently you're not supposed to mix cheese and fish, but I do like a tuna mayo sarnie with some grated cheddar mixed in.

Tuna melt - always a good choice when you're in an airport waiting for the (delayed again) flight back to Stornoway.  :P

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Re: Foodstuffs which individually are fine, but should never be paired
« Reply #136 on: 21 March, 2017, 07:19:21 am »
yebbut, if I was doing pizza with anchovies, I wouldn't put cheese on it.  Just tomatoes, anchovies, oregano, olive oil and maybe a few olives.
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Re: Foodstuffs which individually are fine, but should never be paired
« Reply #137 on: 21 March, 2017, 07:30:09 am »
yebbut, if I was doing pizza with anchovies, I wouldn't put cheese on it.  Just tomatoes, anchovies, oregano, olive oil and maybe a few olives.

If all the anchovies are on one side, you can tell that the delivery boy has been caning it on his bike.

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Re: Foodstuffs which individually are fine, but should never be paired
« Reply #138 on: 21 March, 2017, 10:39:42 am »
I pretty much thought the base pizza was a the margarita, bread, cheese, tomato and then you build up.  Not sure I've ever come across a pizza without cheese.  But hey ho, you live and learn :-)
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Re: Foodstuffs which individually are fine, but should never be paired
« Reply #139 on: 22 March, 2017, 07:50:22 am »
I pretty much thought the base pizza was a the margarita, bread, cheese, tomato and then you build up.  Not sure I've ever come across a pizza without cheese.  But hey ho, you live and learn :-)

Have enough margaritas and who cares what's on the effing pizza?
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