The General Chat Thread

Toto Wolfcastle · 14-10-2014 12:18PM

I love sweet and salty. I used to dip my chips into my ice cream sundae in McDonalds.

Lovely Bloke · 14-10-2014 12:18PM

I used to put marmalade on my toast with sausages.

the beer revolu · 14-10-2014 12:22PM

Chutney is a classic sweet sour savoury combination

Gloomtastic! · 14-10-2014 12:23PM

My breakfast of choice these days - Pancakes, maple syrup, streaky smoked bacon and spicy pickled cabbage. That's all the taste buds covered.

the beer revolu · 14-10-2014 12:49PM

Of course!
Mayple syrup and bacon!

iwantmydinner · 14-10-2014 01:05PM

My mom's brown sugar and port-glazed Christmas ham

oscarBravo · 14-10-2014 01:21PM

The Hill Billy wrote: »

My sis was always a great one for marmalade & cheese on crackers. Bleurghhh!

That's a totally Scandinavian thing, as anyone who has read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo can tell you. It's a breakfast staple for me now (on toast), and when I first heard of it I had the same reaction as you.

Faith · 14-10-2014 03:45PM

I like jam with cheese, or cranberry sauce. But I think that's a pretty common combination, isn't it? I'd only have it on crackers, but I don't eat much cheese anyway.

Also, yes to chips dipped in ice cream!

IvyTheTerrible · 14-10-2014 04:45PM

Faith wrote: »

I like jam with cheese, or cranberry sauce. But I think that's a pretty common combination, isn't it? I'd only have it on crackers, but I don't eat much cheese anyway.

Also, yes to chips dipped in ice cream!

Oh I love the sweet combination with cheese, blue cheese and red currant jam, goat cheese and caramelised onions, brie and cranberry....nommmmm

Merkin · 14-10-2014 05:57PM

Dizzyblonde wrote: »

My daughter has Canadian friends and she's tasted sweet potato mash with marshmallows. She says it's strangely nice!

Happy Thanksgiving Faith

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iwantmydinner wrote: »

Salty/sweet is my all-time favourite flavour combo. I have a notion that's down to a pretty unrefined (ignorant?!) palate but I had my fun and that's all that matters.

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MissFlitworth wrote: »

That's funny iwantmydinner, I was just about to post exactly that! I did used to hate sweet & salty and really hated sweet elements in savoury meals but something flipped in my head (probably prediabetes ) and now I do love that combination. I think I could do sweet potatoes & marshmallows!

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the beer revolu wrote: »

I also love sweet and salty.
I really like fruit based sauces - rhubarb with duck being a favourite. Gooseberry is great with savoury as is redcurrant. All the above have quite a bit of acid too, though so I guess I really like sweet salty sour combo - in balance.

Mrs Beer thinks I'm a freak for it but I love honey and marmite together!

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Baldy Conscience wrote: »

popcorn and chocolate, at the cinema.

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The Hill Billy wrote: »

Mrs Billy always puts marmalade on her toast when having a boiled or poached egg. Not something that I would be in to at all.

My sis was always a great one for marmalade & cheese on crackers. Bleurghhh!

However, I do like honey with certain types of cheese.

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Bobblehead Panda wrote: »

I love sweet and salty. I used to dip my chips into my ice cream sundae in McDonalds.

:eek::eek:

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

I used to put marmalade on my toast with sausages.

:eek:

Gloomtastic! wrote: »

My breakfast of choice these days - Pancakes, maple syrup, streaky smoked bacon and spicy pickled cabbage. That's all the taste buds covered.

:eek:

Faith wrote: »

I like jam with cheese, or cranberry sauce. But I think that's a pretty common combination, isn't it? I'd only have it on crackers, but I don't eat much cheese anyway.

Also, yes to chips dipped in ice cream!

:eek:

You're all dead to me

Kovu · 14-10-2014 06:02PM

But chips and ice cream. .....
I'm on my way home from camping in Wicklow. Lots of french toast and roast meatball skewers. Nomnomnom

MissFlitworth · 14-10-2014 06:11PM

Haha, oh Merkin, so sorry!

Faith · 14-10-2014 06:12PM

Merkin, you're missing out on one of life's great pleasures!

Dizzyblonde · 14-10-2014 06:14PM

Merkin, maybe you need to start small and work up to it. Maltesers mixed with popcorn is how it all started for me

The Hill Billy · 14-10-2014 06:19PM

Merkin - hang tough! Don't succumb to this madness!!!!

Merkin · 14-10-2014 06:23PM

If you can imagine an angry little mob of sweet taste buds and salty little taste buds holding up pickets, stamping their little feet on my tongue and chanting 'no surrender, no to merger!' That's what's going on in my mouth right now

iwantmydinner · 14-10-2014 06:29PM

Minstrels and fresh, hot, salty popcorn. I want this for dinner now.

Avada · 14-10-2014 06:40PM

Cineworld now stock Caramel & Sea Salt Popcorn, it is one of the best things I have ever eaten

http://www.joeandsephs.co.uk/home

confusticated · 14-10-2014 07:52PM

Salted caramel Merkin! One of the greatest things on this earth!

The Black Oil · 14-10-2014 08:02PM

The first rule of Cooking Chat, you do not talk about...

The second rule of Cooking Chat, you do not talk about...:pac:

Faith · 15-10-2014 01:25AM

There's a doughnut shop up the road from me that promises so much, but fails to deliver so hard

. The doughnuts are really thick and heavy, and the fillings are horrible. They're also fecking expensive! It's so disappointing when that happens.

the beer revolu · 15-10-2014 08:40AM

Merkin wrote: »

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You're all dead to me

Do you like hobnobs?

Merkin · 15-10-2014 09:42AM

the beer revolu wrote: »

Do you like hobnobs?

Hate them, find them too salty!

hardCopy · 15-10-2014 10:26AM

the beer revolu wrote: »

I also love sweet and salty.
I really like fruit based sauces - rhubarb with duck being a favourite. Gooseberry is great with savoury as is redcurrant. All the above have quite a bit of acid too, though so I guess I really like sweet salty sour combo - in balance.

Mrs Beer thinks I'm a freak for it but I love honey and marmite together!

Caramelised onion and whiskey jus on a steak, mmm

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

Oh I love the sweet combination with cheese, blue cheese and red currant jam, goat cheese and caramelised onions, brie and cranberry....nommmmm

Blue cheese smeared right onto a grape, mmm

iwantmydinner wrote: »

Minstrels and fresh, hot, salty popcorn. I want this for dinner now.

Slightly salted popcorn mixed into melted white chocolate, mmm

The best chocolate biscuit cake I ever ate was made with salted butter because the local shop had no unsalted, OH point blank refuses to ever make it again.

Harry Palmr · 15-10-2014 07:30PM

Just watching Trust Me, I'm a Doctor on BBC Two - there was a feature about the benefits of eating high carb/sugar spike foods reheated - it drops the peak value by about 20% as tested using pasta (and sauce), eating it cold is less useful (only about 10% drop) and less pleasant

The effect is supposedly the same with other starchy foodstuffs.

I'm a bit of a fan of reheated fresh foods - basically anything that can fit into a vegetable stew which is then replenished every few days and kept in the bottom of the fridge between reheats.

Tarzana · 16-10-2014 02:07AM

Weighing in on the whole sweet potato/marshmallow combo. I love salty/sweet/savoury combos. But sweet potato is very... sweet. Like, it's savoury, but a very sweet savoury, even just cooked on its own with nothing added. So adding brown sugar or marshmallow just seems wrong, like adding sugar to something that's already sweet. There's no contrast there. Bleurgh!

I'm not really a fan of sweet potatoes anyway, so that doesn't help. I find them too sweet and I don't really enjoy their mushy texture. (Which isn't a consequence of overcooking, it happens very quickly!) Much prefer regular shpuds, so the whole sweet potato vogue is a bit lost on me!

Faith · 16-10-2014 02:10AM

It is very sweet. I hate sweet potato mash because it's so sweet. But somehow, the cinnamon and vanilla (along with the caramel flavour of the sugar) change the sweetness completely. But I don't know what happens when you add the marshmallows!

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I don't mean to be a tease, but I can see what Friday's cooking club recipe is and OMG. I cannot WAIT to make it!

Moody_mona · 16-10-2014 07:33AM

I saw it in the split second that it was live and I am insanely jealous that you're able to read it and look at the pictures, it's gonna be unreal!

Mrs Fox · 16-10-2014 08:36AM

It's Friday in Fiji in two hours time so technically you can post it up then?

The Hill Billy · 16-10-2014 08:36AM

But that recipe is embargoed until 24.10. So that is a full week of tease instead of just a day. Oh, Faith - nasty! :pac:

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