Foods That Gotta Go Together

blw · July 2003

When I posted to the "Coke or Water" thread it got me thinging... As a child, my mom always served certain foods together. Now I find whenever I make a pork roas, I have to serve lima beans and apple sauce. Everyone knows that it just what goes with it!

What foods go together for you? And did you grow up with it, or start the habit yourself?

AprilShowers · July 2003

Kraft Maccaroni and Cheese with dry stuffing mix stirred in.
I started this in college when this was all I had in my dorm room- Now I have to eat it that way every time!
April

Leslie · July 2003

Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy and peas. Mine.

Applesauce with a hamburger casserole my mom makes.

Round Steak with brown sauce, potatoes with onions, sweet and sour cabbage. Mom's

Dutch2 · July 2003

Liver an onions.... just kidding. How 'bout cookies (your choice) and a glass of milk (the glass must big enough to dunk your cookies)
Dutch2

Ruby Tuesday · July 2003

Ugh! I can't stand milk and never could understand why people would want to make their cookies all soggy. x:-)

NicoleLee · July 2003

Ditto!!!

jmpmo · July 2003

Mom's would be meatloaf, mashed potatoes and corn.

Mine is baked fish, rice pilaf and cornbread.

ray a · July 2003

We used to have an AA that served tunafish sandwiches with pizza to her family. She made the mistake of telling me and I harassed her for years about it.

jenhall · July 2003

Mine is liver and onions with rice, turnips and cornbread, and for desert, ice cream with saltine crackers.

Ruby Tuesday · July 2003

Fried egg sandwich and potato chips. Great midnight snack! But I won't have the egg sandwich if there aren't any chips to go with it.

scottorr · July 2003

My favorit is pepperoni and pineapple pizza smothered in hot sauce and blue cheese! Can't remember the first time I tried it but I'm sure it was in my late teens or early 20's.

NicoleLee · July 2003

I CAN"T stand milk, so I always used to eat cc cookies with a big glass of lemonade! Very yummy.

Also, whenever I feel old (or I am sick) I always eat grilled cheese (kraft american only!) with my Mom's potato(e??? I always forget!) soup or bean w/bacon. Very comforting foods.

TALLEY · July 2003

Grilled cheese and tomato soup. My husband has to have grape jelly with a ham sandwich, I have to have honey on a hamburger. My mother used to make us peanut butter and brown sugar sandwiches (crusts removed, of course). The thought of that, now, makes me nauseous. My youngest son cannot eat tuna casserole unless he has cottage cheese - to mix with the casserole.

Pot roast, carrots and potatoes

Sausage gravy, fried eggs and biscuits

System · July 2003

Beer and pizza. Can't split them up! Ham steak with green beans, red potatoes, corn bread. Ketchup on my scrambled eggs. Ranch dressing on super hot chicken wings. I'm getting hungry. Meatloaf and green peas on the side. My fiance has to have peanut butter on his pancakes. Pork chops must have applesauce. Can I gain weight typing or reading this?

moneyman · July 2003

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 07-17-03 AT 09:09AM (CST)[/font][p]Hot wings and beer!!! I've been in Florida for 10 years now and didn't know about how good this could be for lunch or dinner. When I travel back to California you can't find hot wings as a meal, you might find a place that will have it as an appetizer, but you don't find complete restaurants where that is the main feature. (or BBQ place's either, I guess that is the South)

On another note, I worked with a lady who put sardines on cottage cheese. As if cottage cheese wasn't bad enough to begin with ...

psrcello · July 2003

Believe it or not, fried calves liver with boiled potatoes and creamed peas on the side - I've loved this since I was a kid!

Also, hot chili with corn bread, peanut butter and apple butter sandwiches, freshly caught & fried bass with grits for breakfast, or pizza with anchovies.

moneyman · July 2003

peanut butter and apple sound great, we make PB, honey & banana, that is my son's favorite.

AprilShowers · July 2003

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 07-17-03 AT 10:25AM (CST)[/font][p]
psrcello:

Sounds like something Hannibal Lector would eat for dinner! :-S

NicoleLee · July 2003

I got indigestion just reading that!

HRGirl · July 2003

Ham Steak with boiled and fried potatoes and corn. Roast beef with mash potatoes and gravy and corn. Warm apple dumplings with milk on it. Grits with sugar and butter stirred in (only get these when I head south). Pork chops with applesauce and kraft macaroni and cheese.

Okay its only 10AM and I'm ready for dinner! Who's buyin??

sonny · July 2003

I tend to have some compulsive issues, so if I let myself, this could go on forever. I am quite a beer drinker, but it does NOT go with ANY food. MUST have a cola product with pizza or it can not be eaten.

With left over Turkey, one must have the cheapest white bread one can find (any other sandwich must have expensive bread) Tons of Miracle Whip and large milk.

Strange combination and favorite comfort food.. .Peanut butter and Miracle Whip (ONLY miracle whip) with a big glass of cold milk. (This came from growing up)

All sandwiches should be eaten with milk except BLT's which require a Cola product.

And so it goes. . .

swbpr · July 2003

Since everyone seems to mention Peanut Butter...I love Peanut Butter and Grape Jelly sandwich with Nacho Cheese Dorito's on it....MMMMMMM yummy.

Tuna fish with miracle whip and a grated apple on fresh white bread (with the crust!)

Steak, mashed potatoes & gravy, black eyed or purple hull peas, cornbread.

Gumbo and potato salad.

ray a · July 2003

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 07-17-03 AT 11:13AM (CST)[/font][p]I am sitting here typing this post with tears in my eyes. My vision is cloudy.

No, silly... I'm not a sensitive guy. I finished a plate of very hot wings, bleu cheese sauce and a Mountain Dew.

Ah..... and a nice big piece of coconut creme pie from the local bakery.x0:)

Zanne · July 2003

Fish sticks and Kraft macaroni and cheese! Grew up eating that at least once a week.

Corn with mashed potatos. (You take a forkful of mashed potatos, stick it in the corn and evenly coat with the kernels.)

Milk with take-out pizza at home.

Doug · July 2003

Corn beef, cabbage, potatoes, carrots cooked together.

Hamburgers, Kraft Dinner.

Enchilladas, beans and rice.

Hot dogs, potato salad, fruit jello in the summer.

And for a few damn yankees, fresh hot maple syrup on fresh snow (not the yellow kind) and sausages.

AprilShowers · July 2003

I eat syrup on snow also! It's the best!

NicoleLee · July 2003

>Corn with mashed potatos. (You take a forkful of mashed potatos,
>stick it in the corn and evenly coat with the kernels.)
>

Add to that some homemade turkey gravy and those heat and serve rolls, and you just described every Thanksgiving (my personal favorite holiday...food, food, food!) and one of my fav. meals ever.

psrcello · July 2003

Anybody out there with a Scandanavian heritage? Our New Year's Day dinner every year during my childhood was lutefisk - basically, whitefish soaked in lye, then boiled to achieve the texture of tough jello.

The only way to eat this stuff is smothered in boiled potatoes, white gravy and mustard.

It's amazing that I grew up with a positive outlook, having started every new year this way!

Don D · July 2003

Moneyman's hot wings and beer has got my vote! I thought I was the only one hooked on this. I often ride the countryside searching for the better or best wings. And Leslie's additions make me think she lives right here in my area!

Then there's always the inseparable combination...Deviled eggs, Penrose Sausage, saltines and a rolled-down window.

moneyman · July 2003

I forgot one of the best "sides" to go with those wings, some curly fries with vinegar splashed on it.

HS · July 2003

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 07-17-03 AT 02:03PM (CST)[/font][p]for you New Jerseyans...Diner food!

french fries with brown gravy (or with cheese and gravy)

and I can't believe noone mentioned...

Chocolate and Peanut Butter! x:9

Foods That Gotta Go Together

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