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Peanut butter and ajvar.

Kalimotxo. It’s red wine and cola in roughly equal parts, to taste. It’s a great way to salvage old wine that’s a day or two past drinkable, especially on a hot day.

I described it once on reddit in the before times, and someone called it a “shit red wine spritzer” and I think that’s kinda apt.

Oreos and yellow mustard. Don't knock it til you try it. Then call me a heathen, respectfully.

Roasted cauliflower and chocolate. I like to dust coco powder in the last 3 min.

Raisins and anchovies.

Mushrooms and coffee.

Garlic, chocolate, and coffee.

Cooked buckwheat groats, bilberries (those wild Nordic blueberries) and maple suryp. With some soy milk. Great breakfast! Some almonds or nuts too.

Most types of cheese on top of hot beans

Make your a salami sandwich with the following steps.

1. Toast the bread.
2. pan fry the salami slices til their a little crispy on the edges.
3. spread hummus on the bread once it’s toasted.
4. add the crispy salami, some lettuce, and seasoned tomato to your sandwich and enjoy.

People look at me sideways for using hummus as a sandwich spread, but it’s delicious.

I have a 200 item list of grazing board foods that I've personally mixed and sampled every single 2 and 3 item combination and curated every item to be acceptable to delicious in 3 part combos.

By far the two strangest combos to any guest are the spicy salami and the dark chocolate on baguette bread or the rum dates and stone stone-ground mustard on butter cracker.

The sweet and bitter of the chocolate mixes so well with the oilly spice of the meat, and the baguette bridges the textures to provide a comfortable mouthfeel by soaking it in.

For the second, the vinegar and tang of the mustard heighten the rum without taking away the sweet paste of the dates and the cracker provides enough texture to not feel like you're eating sauce and enough salt to soften the vinegar and alcohol bite.

Honestly, it's my favorite dinner even because it's so much fun to watch people look at you in horror when you suggest they try something, then try it and see that horror melt away into absolute wonder.

Kraft Dinner with Dill

As a kid I remember jam (probably strawberry) and cheese (Cheddar or red Leicester) sandwiches being pretty awesome. For manifold reasons, peanut butter was not something made available to me back then, so that would be the closest our house ever got to that.

Cooked Eggs (preferably poached) On toast with....

Vegemite.

You can thank me later.

Strawberries and black pepper. You’re welcome.

Hummus and pesto. Just dump some pesto in your hummus and thank me later. You can buy both, obviously, but you can also easily make both from scratch so it can be super cheap once you have the core ingredients. It’s basically no harder than making a smoothie.

Bonus: basil grows whether you want it to or not, at least in most climates. If you have a spice garden, you kind of have to keep basil from dominating. But it also makes an excellent, cheap gift. When I was younger, I had a basil plant that lived for a few years and got huge and I just brought clippings instead of wine (or whatever) to parties. I saved tons of money and no one has ever been like, “Get the fuck out of here with that fresh basil.”

Salt on watermelon, and salt on pineapple.

Also, cayenne pepper on anything chocolate - brownies, ice cream, etc.

Chocolate and anything spicy.

Gouda and nutella.

Southern style sweet tea and lemonade.

Half pure orange juice and half cola.

Corn and mayo.

Chicago corn (cheddar popcorn mixed with caramel corn). Sounds weird - is awesome.