I thought it would be interesting to see what combination of foods or food mixes your favorites are. If we make hot dogs, we generally make sides of sauerkraut and beans with it. I generally will put brown or deli mustard on my Frank. However, On occasion, I enjoy a third side, canned potatoes. My wife always asks how can you eat that? I like the potatoes, which are already cooked heated in lots of butter. This is the only time I will put butter on my hot dog instead of mustard. Yes, it's weird, but I really enjoy it. One of my favorite mixes for breakfasts is Deli sliced ham cut into small (diced) pieces, stired into scrambled eggs, fried in butter with a little oil (oil reduces smoke). Served with toast and coffee, and I'm in breakfast heaven.
I've always been a meat/starch/green vegetable cook. I like the plate to look balanced. We eat a lot of salad and many times that is the "green." For hot dogs, I like either chili/mustard/onions or Chicago style. I also love a "slaw dog" but I never make them for some reason. In that one, the wiener is deep fried, then placed in a plain bun and covered with cole slaw. We also eat a lot of Tex-Mex combinations. When the weather gets cold we eat soups, stews, beans, or other 1-pot meals, usually with cornbread.
I, too, have always been a meat/starch/green vegetable cook. I almost always have a salad with my meal. Tonight I was running errands so stopped by Taco Hell and brought it home. I started with a salad. When I have something like meatloaf, I always have mashed potatoes, gravy and green beans. When I have liver, it's the same except I have peas instead of green beans. Steak and chicken usually get fresh steamed asparagus or steamed broccoli and some starch (fried or baked potatoes for the steak, and mac & cheese for the chicken.) I sometimes servings of a variety of rices in the freezer for a change of pace (rice pilaf, Spanish rice, curry rice, etc.) @Tony Page I've made egg sandwiches and heated up a slice of deli ham to put on top. I won't comment on your eating canned potatoes because I value our friendship. But seriously!!!!! How could you???? All I can taste is the can they were in. Please tell me you don't shake dried parsley on them.
I know canned potatoes is yuk to most, however I don't have it that much because no else likes it. One of the reasons for this tread was to find odd mixes or sides. I like hearing of odd combinations of food that people put together. As far as ham & eggs go, I have to cut the ham and mixed it in the eggs. Bacon is the only meat I like on an egg sandwich.
I gotta dig deep to come up with odd mixes that I might do. I knew a kid who put ketchup on his corn. I don't know if he outgrew it. Here's one: I used to make a fried cabbage that had corn bread mix and jalapeno peppers in it. I also made carrots tossed in a ginger/orange juice syrup. I would sometimes make both dishes and mix them together. It tasted good to me.
Aside from on occasion,eating last night's leftovers for breakfast- including fried fish- um I am not sure about my oddities .
Sorry I missed the point of your thread, Tony. I can't think of any odd combinations offhand but I'm sure I do like some odd things. (I like butter on Saltines... is that odd? ) I don't believe I have ever bought or eaten canned potatoes; I always thought they'd be mushy or something.
Me, too. For some reason it reminds me of my father's Bermuda onion sandwiches. White bread+butter+thick Bermuda onion slice+ salt & pepper. I never have tried one.
I too eat saltines with butter, I also like grape jelly on them. I'll make a plate of these and munch on them while watching TV. Canned potatoes are Soft, there in liquid so you have to drain them. I don’t have a large menu of things I like. So it's unusual I like these. It's one thing I like my wife doesn't, There's probably a 100 things she likes but I won't even try. I'm fussy, When we first got married I would eat pasta in tomato sauce, but never a raw tomato, after growing them I love them. I'm odd when it comes to food.
I've done that I remember being out before I got married for most of the night I got home just in time for breakfast, I found left over ravioli in the fridge that was my breakfast.
I am not a big fish eater, My wife would say put pasta sauce on it and he'll eat anything. That's mostly true, I never even would try fish, until we served breaded fish with pasta sauce on it, and on rice on the side.
I like toast with butter and jelly/jam. I don't know that I've ever had jelly on a slice of unbuttered toast except when I've had PBJ on toast. I don't know if this is a weird combination, but I have oxtail stew cooking in the Crock Pot right now. I was at Walmart yesterday and they had oxtails on discount because they were near the Expiry Date. One would think it to be a "Let nothing go to waste" item, but after you buy leeks, turnips and port wine, it's not a cheap meal. When I went back later that evening to pick up the rest of the ingredients (I did not recall everything that was in my recipe), the rest of them were already sold. There must have been 10 marked-down paks earlier in the day.
I've gotten to like Cold Slaw, I will try it. Do you Shred the cabbage and mix it with salt and butter or just smear it on a leaf?