Many people make baked brie with preserves.
1: Oh, right! I've totally had that. And it's great.
Fresh cheese and guava paste is the Colombian sandwich of choice.
I grew up eating cheese with jam (my parents are Cypriot). Then I went to school in California and people thought it was odd, so I stopped. Maybe I'll take it up again.
Spanish and Portuguese people (and me, since I tried it, because it's to die for) eat hard cheeses such as Manchego with quince marmalade. But I suppose that's the origin of the Chilean habit.
3 and 5 were what I was thinking. CA as a little kid used to eat cheddar and chutney sandwiches (chutney not being *entirely* unjammish, I suppose).
I believe most "natural" peanut butters say on the jar to refrigerate after opening.
I don't need to keep peanut butter in the fridge? Score Touchdown!
Hm....referee peep threw a flag on the play.
What do peeps know about refrigeration? They'll stay edible for years just sitting there on the pantry shelf.
The cafe at my workplace serves a bacon, brie, and apple jam sandwich that gets rave reviews. But most everyone I knew thought it was odd at first, until they tried it.
As above, lots of chutneys are sweet. Onion marmalades, and so on. My mum always ate cheese with sweet preserves, although it's not that much to my taste (unless the sweetish chutney also has a bit of chilli in it).
I recall enjoying cream-cheese-and-strawberry-jam sandwiches as a fat little boy.
[Sighs.]
[Flexes.]
Cheese with something sweet is awesome. I like medium cheddar with a slice of pound cake.
Jalapeno jelly and cream cheese is delicious. I bet it's good with cheese, too.
17 is right. Do you people have toasted tea cakes? Magic with grated cheddar or similar on.
16: Date nut bread with cream cheese was a lunchbox staple for me.
(That's when my mother made my lunch. My father would attempt to create brown-bag versions of Italian antipasto plates, which is in retrospect hilarious and super sweet.)
Do you people have toasted tea cakes?
No, and now I'm angry we don't. Those look amazing.
Cheese with quince paste (which can be thought of as very cooked-down quince jam) is well attested among Iberians. Cheese with quince jelly works well also.
Manchego + membrillo really is a great combination.
My grandfather taught me that one of the greatest of sandwiches consists of (1) a slice of roasted turkey breast, (2) sharp cheddar cheese, (3) sliced onion, (4) mayo on one interior side and (5) strawberry jam on the other interior side. This can be reduced, I've found, to a simple cheese and strawberry jam sandwich, enhanced with a slice of onion.
He was also fond of sliced tomatoes sprinkled with sugar.
Those toasted tea cakes (minus the fruit) look like what we call English muffins, and Wikipedia suggests that that's basically what they are. Well, there's something I can stop wondering about.
Great. Now the only mysteries left are death and who keeps watching Dance Moms.
What about taxes?
I suggest taxing Dance Moms.
Once. After that, I hired Willie Nelson's accountant.
I highly recommend pita with a salty feta (Bulgarian is my preferred feta) and cherry jam.
Also, if you aren't making fruit omelets, you are missing out. (Apple, strawberry, pear, cream cheese.)
Both of these came into my life courtesy of my former Iranian stepfather.
Also great for this purpose is labneh (not technically cheese, I guess? but ricotta-like).
What about pineapple and cottage cheese? That's sophisticated and worldly.
On the other hand pineapple on pizza is an atrocity that should be banned under a Geneva convention.
37 makes my mouth water. If ordering chain pizza, the only consolation is pineapple and jalapeño.
When I was fourish we spent part of a summer in LA and there was a restaurant, well known I think, called Marie Callendar's and the napkins had a little rhyme on them that for no reason I can come up with, I remember still:
Apple pie without some cheese
Is like a kiss without a squeeze.
(I thought apple pie with cheese sounded awful.)
39. Same convention, different chapter. I'd been seeing Mrs y for years before I realised she wasn't joking about that.
(huh, apparently it's a chain.)
I believe most "natural" peanut butters say on the jar to refrigerate after opening.
Does that keep the oil from separating back out? Even if it did, I probably wouldn't refrigerate it. I keep peanuts on the shelf, I keep peanut oil on the shelf, why not peanut butter?
What about pineapple and cottage cheese? That's sophisticated and worldly.
A combo I knew as a child only from Steak 'n' Shake.
Apple pie with extra sharp cheddar is the best.
I leave nut butters out. I also store the jar upside down so the oil is less of a drag to deal with.
45.2 is a good trick. I should do that.
I *abominate* pineapple on pizza, but when I am eating shitty chain pizza (rarely, thank goodness), I ask for a double order of banana peppers and the spicy/pickly goodness covers up the bad.
26: Manchego! Membrillo! Ooo this is oblique yo!
Fermata! Ricotta! Maybe panna cotta!
38: Oh, that reminds me: If you do visit at some point, remind me to take you to Pizza Luce for the garlic mashed potato pizza.
The whole cheese+sweet thing has never appealed to me. I've had pineapple on pizza before, but not enthusiastically. And cheese on apple pie seems like a waste of both foods. I guess I could see pairing a smooth cheese with some unsweetened preserves, that would be reasonable. I'm not all that crazy about tomatoes on grilled cheese sandwiches, even.
O, also, I continue to find the products at the Mexican supermarket down the street very intriguing. Just last night I was noting all the different kinds of jello -- like walnut for instance -- and feeling like I should buy a bunch of them and make crazy parfaits or something.
Sadly, they seem to have replaced most of the unusual flavors of Tang and Kool-Aid with Klass, which I do not favor.
Refrigerating "natural" peanut butter after stirring does indeed keep the oil from separating out. I like "natural" peanut butter much better than the regular kind, and I find stirring up the oil incredibly annoying, so the refrigeration is totally worth it for me.
Since this is the food thread, I should probably go elsewhere to note that I'm now losing so much skin that when I untuck my shirt, it snows on the floor.
double order of banana peppers
When I worked at a pizza place, one of my favorite pizzas to make for myself was a cheese pizza, but you squeezed a handful of pepperoncini over the top, such you got the juices but no actual pepper or seeds on the pizza. The result: what looks like a plain cheese pizza hidden pickly zing.
Juice squeezing was pre-baking, in case that wasn't clear.
I really love pepperoncini, but after you've squeezed them, I'm not eating them.
The post title makes me sad, because the Fridge is now a depressed overweight alcoholic with a chronic illness.
57: Oh great. Now I know this too, halford.
16 & 20. My childhood. I haven't had these in too long.
alcoholic with a chronic illness
Unlike the others.
Boston brown bread with cream cheese.
I'm eating some of the best Rainier cherries ever, right now. Nothing else you could add would do anything but subtract.
I associate cheese and jam sandwiches with my grandmother, who surely didn't eat them out of some kind of culinary sophistication. I had the sense that it was a Depression-era leftover, like reusing teabags.
Still delicious, with the right cheese and jam.
Pineapple on pizza is still wrong. Anathema!
Speaking of food, I'm roasting garlic right this moment for the purposes of making a roasted garlic hummus.
You know what else is good on pizza (besides pineapple and jalapeño which is delicious, you reprobates)? Sweet peppers.
Peanut butter, bacon and tomato w/ lettuce on toasted whole grain bread. Fresh tomatoes from ur garden, of course. Damn, gotta do that soon. No cheese required.
65: so you're putting food on top of a big helping of weakness and death. Awesome.
66: You think you're getting out of this alive? Hah!
I gotta stop eating these Goldfish crackers. They're sitting right next to me and I'm hungry, but they're really not very good.
I imagine goldfish are paleo-approved, though. Carp and all.
I am about to go buy some pork rinds, because I treasure life.
Is there more to life than this thread?
71: "Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe,
Time carries away the names and the deeds
of conquerors and commoners alike.
And all that we were, all that remains,
is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment."
Found in very fine print after the ingredients in a frozen pizza package.
I gotta stop eating these Goldfish crackers.
Which kind? They come in varieties these days: Whole Grain, Flavor-Blasted (?!), Colors (?!?!), etc.
74: The Totino's guy knew Reagan was a big fan and was afraid of nuclear war.
Colors (?!?!)
Oh, yeah, gotta be careful with those. Some places they pretty much count as a gang initiation.
Holding out for the Baseball Furies flavor.
Pineapple on pizza is still wrong. Anathema!
I abhor Hawaiian style pizza, but I think that it would me okay on a pizza without tomato sauce or mozzarella. Ricotta, maybe sort of nut (pecan or walnut) and pineapple sounds pretty good. Pear would be better, of course. You could probably use goats cheese with pinenuts and pineapple too.
The Fridge's brother Michael Dean Perry actually had a better NFL career although certainly a less well-known one. As Mike Ditka said in an interview after he first used The Fridge as a running back, ""He is going to become the wealthiest big man in the history of the game." For a period of time anyway, I guess.
Remember when they made a G.I. Joe action figure of The Fridge?
I like pineapple on pizza okay. I wouldn't order it myself, but I'd eat it. Corn, on the other hand, is a disgusting pizza topping.
81: Yes, OK? OK? Happy? Now let's all try hard not to think about Appetite for Destruction being 25 years old.
OT: I appreciate the sentiment behind the "If I were Muslim..." FB posts about the Colorado shooter, as about every white mass murderer, but I feel we ought to wait a day or two for his political notions, if any, to be discovered, or we will have frayed the term "terrorism" even more than has already been done.
People are saying that that if they were Muslim, they'd dress as a Batman villain before going all murdery? Or am I missing something?
50: The whole cheese+sweet thing has never appealed to me.
I'm not saying you've just never had it done right -- of course I wouldn't say that -- but simple combinations can be amazing. Smoked gouda goes amazingly well with slices of apple, or especially pear. Fresh raspberries are great on toast with cream cheese. I'm not so much for the jam/preserves form of fruitification in these cases.
About cherries: I always thought I didn't like them. The maraschinos of childhood polluted my mind, I think. Having had some absolutely delicious and amazing fresh cherries from a friend recently, though, I later priced them at the store: $3.99/pound? I thought that might be a bit much. I hear that $1.99/pound is more right.
Sorry to talk price like this, but I've never bought cherries before.
I assume that the FB posts are suggesting "If I were a Muslim, people would go batshit, the government would mandate metal detectors in movie theaters, and the U.S. would invade a small country."
or we will have frayed the term "terrorism" even more than has already been done.
Fuck it. The term is worse-than-useless as it is. Right now in the U.S. it means "violence by Muslims whose political views are unsatisfactory to neocons" and nothing else. If it comes to mean "crazy mass violence," then that is (at least potentially) a baby step in the right direction. Maybe we can start to think again about terrorism as something that we need to respond to with cops and not soldiers.
Fresh hucks and pistachios in yogurt, with cinnamon. And now down to the river: people in tubes, dog swimming in the current.
Pineapple on pizza is still wrong. Anathema!
I'm not a big fan of pineapple on pizza, but it occurs to me that I have never in my life had a slice of restaurant pizza that I didn't like. Anchovies, to my taste, are less-than-awesome on pizza, but pretty much everything else is varying degrees of superb.
90: What about the giant-cookie pizza from the cookie place in the mall, five days after your birthday, when it was still sitting out on the counter, pretty hard, and you decided to try it anyway. Even that you liked?
87: From my conversations, that is a pretty common experience. In my case, I had vague memories of enjoying fresh cherries as a kid that had been totally overruled by more recent maraschino experiences.
Things I like to put in the fridge but really don't need to: peanut butter, soy sauce, various types of vinegar. I blame my mother.
For some reason I feel as though soy sauce doesn't need to be refrigerated, but actual tamari probably should. Balsamic vinegar maybe also refrigerate (as I've had it go rancid on me before I find red wine vinegar would do so).
I miss my old food co-op which had tamari in bulk in its refrigerated section.
You know what else is good on pizza (besides pineapple and jalapeño which is delicious, you reprobates)?
I like pineapple on pizza okay.
Since this is the food thread, here's my berry-picking count so far this year, in case you were curious: strawberries, 120 lbs.; raspberries, 35 lbs.; marionberries, 30 lbs.; blueberries, 15 lbs. Don't you wish you lived in the PNW?
Also apropos food, this is just to say to my neighbors who called this morning to say that they were delayed getting back from vacation, and would I please take the dog for a walk:
I have eaten
the eggs
that were in
the coop
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so orange-yolked
and so fresh
I actually have raspberries, but they aren't fully ripe yet. I know I blamed animals for eating them, but apparently I suck raspberry inspecting and didn't realize what the process looked like. If nothing bad happens to them, I'll get over a dozen berries.
The birds ate the raspberries that we didn't manage to pick in time. I know I said birds don't eat raspberries, but even then I knew that was wrong, for how else do the raspberry bushes spread hither and thither about the premises as they do?
96: well done
98: bears, Jesus McQueen and his children
97, 98: So neither of us know shit about raspberries. Everyone update your card file.
And I wouldn't worry about bears. They clearly don't know where to get good electronics. They may take the berries, but the iPad is probably safe.
This fig jam is delicious with cheese.
101: Hmm, was there a couple of weeks ago.
I'm not here to accuse anybody of inciting bears.
83: Now let's all try hard not to think about Appetite for Destruction being 25 years old.
Listening to blues at the punk club today, I realized:
1932->1977 - 45 years
1977->2012 - 35 years
So from the heyday of the Memphis Jug Band to the Sex Pistols is really not that much different from the heyday of the Sex Pistols to [whoever is meaningful now -- Janelle Monae?]
It's a funny old world.
83, 105: Last night I went to see Dean Wareham Plays Galaxie 500, which I think is not as far removed as I would like from seeing Styx and Foreigner at Jones Beach.
I like Janelle Monae, but I don't think she's quite made it to meaningful.
108: Well, the only other group I could think of was LMFAO, and that seemed like it wouldn't be as trenchant. Tranche.
Parsi, what kind of cherries? The Wick entry on Rainiers says they were going for $1 each in Japan 10 years ago. It's nearly inconceivable to me that you friends in BC let you visit without serving you some Lapins from the Okanagan. What kind of friends are they, anyway?
Berry my hart at Wounded Knee.
In 2015, we will be as far from 1985 as the protagonist of Back to the Future was from his 1955 parents.
In 3063, we'll be as far from the mass acceptance of cannibalism as we are now from the Norman Conquest.
In the spirit of the disabled debauchee, let me recommend putting a slice of cheese on top of the wonderful rye, raisin and carraway bread from these guys. It is sweet, sour and juicy all at once. You can get it from the Sourced market in St Pancras and no doubt other places.
As some brave admiral, in former war
deprived of force, but pressed with courage still
Two rival fleets approaching from afar,
Crawls to the top of an adjacent hill
....
I'll saucily advise,
And, being good for nothing else, be wise.
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It's cheese and fruit, not jam, but let me just remind of you the best sandwich in the world.
"remind of you"? I must be more tired than I thought.
116 made me laugh so loud that my kids demanded I explain what was funny. Which, it turns out, is not really possible with a 5 and 7 year old.
110: Raspberries put out runners.
Ah. I thought that was a possibility, but the distance traveled seemed improbable. We initially had raspberry bushes in the way back of the yard, then several years later one cropped up at least, oh, 50 yards away and sort of around a corner and atop a 3 foot high stone wall, then another a couple of years later another 20 yards along. Those are some runners, seems like. I dunno.
111: It's nearly inconceivable to me that you friends in BC let you visit without serving you some Lapins from the Okanagan.
Nope. I had a lot of freshly picked strawberries and raspberries every morning, though. Have you seen this site, CC? Maybe it's been around for a while, but I'd never noticed it. My friend is here.
I have no idea what kind of cherries I had the other day. I'll have to ask, given that I could barely stop gushing over them, which indicates that I should procure some if possible.
I make a "pizza" with granny smith apples, onions, and gruyere. Nomnomnom.
The non-cooking Frenchman's makeshift pizza.
Update to 101. What are the odds of a second bear at the same mall being unrelated?
Date nut bread with cream cheese was a lunchbox staple for me.
Me too! Further proof that oudemia and I shared a childhood. My mother used to make the bread in little loaf pans, so we would have cute mini-sandwiches.
126: Oh, so now all bears look the same to you? Speciesist.
128: Indeed. He details the whole theory in a forthcoming book, Bears: A Resemblance.
alameida was unable to resist forwarding this actual comment from an OT story in which the cops shoot a break-in victim. just in case anyone is worried that they are overdoing it with the "OPINIONATED."
PRAYERS TO ALL INVOLVED IN YET ANOTHER CAREER NIGHTMARE SITUATION! CITIZENS HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO KEEP AND BARE ARMS IN THE STATE OF OHIO AND THE UNITED STATES. THIS IS GOING TO MAKE SOME LAWYERS ALOT OF MONEY AND CAUSE MANY POLICY CHANGES I CAN BET. TO BAD THE OFFICERS WERE NOT EQUPPED WITH BODY CAMERAS!
123 -- Pic of Hornby from our place in the queue (left of the big doug). I don't get over to Hornby but every third year or so, and while we're heading out to the coast in a week or so, I doubt we'll make it this year either.
OT: Do I have to repay money I won betting on Penn State if the win has been vacated?
