to think this was a weird food combination?

[MmeLindor.]

We were invited for dinner and the hostess served:

chicken in Campbell's Soup sauce
rice
green beans

and

...

raspberry jelly.

Not as a dessert. With the main course. On the same plate.

What is the weirdest food combo that you have eaten/been served?

yep, saute potatoes and hash browns are both totally different.

both fine for breakfast though, i wouldn't find either of them unusual tbh

On our honeymoon i ordered a prawn cocktail (we were in tenerife - uncles villa = free holiday) and when it came it was tinned fruit, mixed with seafood sauce, with king prawns around the edge, all served in a 70's metal ashtray looking thing. i blame a post wedding high wine and i had a fit of giggles that i couldn't stop especially when they asked if i didn't like it . we never went back to that restaurant.

Why kitchen

There are many Michelin starred places in Blighty and many British people take a big interest in preparing good quality food.

Anybody see the recent thread about the lady living in Franch who said French people were shite cooks...

It was quite funny.

We were served grated carrot set in lemon jelly at braais (barbecues) in South Africa, I'd never heard of it till then.

We discovered mashed sweet potatoes topped with marshmallows from our american friends, it's gorgeous!

One year they offered to bring a fruit salad and I expected a normal fresh fruit salad, instead it was tinned pineapple and mandarin oranges with pecan nuts and marshmallows all mixed into sour cream. Have to say it tastes really good though.

Bloody hell, some of these combinations are odd.

Mandarins, pineapple, marshmallows in sour cream.

Why would you every consider this combination?

This thread is reminding me about the meal my Grandma used to make. I LOVED it but don't think the DCs or DH would touch it ever.

Tripe poached in milk with onion and pepper. It was heaven and I would ask her to make it when I went to stay there.

See, Jello Salad seems quite appetising now, doesn't it?

Oh god, I hate sweet potatoes with marshmallow.

Interesting meal.

My friend just gave me the recipe for a fantastic jelly based cake.

Make rasberry jelly, and leave to set in a patterned cake tin. When set, make floral pattern out of banana slices.
Make more raspberry jelly, and whipped cream. Stir whipped cream and jelly together evenly, and spread on top of jelly to set. When the mix is set, spread some raspberry jam on a 3cm tall Victoria sponge, and put ON TOP of jelly and cream mix.

Press a cake platter on top of the Victoria Sponge, which now becomes the bottom of the cake.
Fill the sink with steaming hot water. DIP caketin into steaming hot water, to melt the jelly. Turn over.

Think I must try it.

It is like an upside down trifle.

You're right, of course, Bamboo, WRT restaurants in England. I think there has been a real renaissance in terms of fine dining in the past decade or so. And I know many ordinary people (not professional chefs) who are outstanding cooks. However, I tend to find a lot of traditional "plain English cooking" rather bland and uninspired. I realize that is a matter of taste.

In Russia (where I spend a lot of time), the joke is that the best Russian cooking is Georgian cooking. Sometimes I think that the best English food is Indian food.

I do find it amusing that some people on this thread are looking down on American cooking, which has so much to offer. The various regional specialities are amazing, from Louisiana Cajun and Creole cuisine to New England seafood to Southern soul food and on down the line.

You cant brand a nations cuisine by the one or two bad cooks that you meet.

It would do Norwegian cooking great injustice if I invited somebody for dinner and they thought my meal was representative of my country's culinary feats, if I was a bad cook. (I am ok, but not bad)

My brother liked banana and tomato ketchup sandwiches.... our family had strange tastes!!

I've eaten amazing American food, and some shocking stuff too - the green bean salad (green beans in mushroom soup) was vile, sweet potato casserole was incredible.

Southern soul food is amazing too, but has macaroni cheese classed as a vegetable

as soon as I saw the OP mentioning jelly as a savoury, I knew the cook would be an American :o

Kitchen
I don't look down on American cooking. One of the best meals I have EVER tasted was a Thanksgiving meal prepared by a friend from the midwest. It was sublime.

We had a friend here earlier, who expressed interest in watching me make french toast for the DC's supper, "oh, how do you make that? I have never made it... oooh, you are such a great cook".

French toast, one of the easiest things that you can cook, and she was impressed by me making it.

She is German, and quite unusual for a German, she does not cook at all. Not a bit.

Mme I had a German flat mate for a couple of years, and he cooked. Sadly, he cooked some of the most minging food stuffs I have ever seen - tinned value meatballs that he got from the reduced price shelf being a highlight, they smelled like death. He ate bacon raw too. I was quite scared to eat in Germany a couple of years ago, but the food was just beyond perfect, so he was clearly a freak of nature :o

Kveta
Are you sure it was raw bacon and not rohe schinken? It is easy to make this mistake - came into the kitchen to find 5yo DS tucking into some raw bacon, after mistaking it for parma ham

Actually, the first time I was in Germany was with the Scouts and the guy we were staying with was on his own, due to his parents being on holiday. He could not cook at all. All our friends were getting great home cooked meals, and we were offered beer for breakfast.

We came home and told everyone that Germans have beer for breakfast.

Most of these sound revolting However the daffodils instead of onions is scary because they are very poisonous! Every year I think of complaining when supermarkets sell daff bulbs by the veg but can't be arsed

I worked with a guy who used to put whole boiled eggs into his porridge. Another guy used to mix cornflakes with baked beans.

My OH (Danish) eats raw bacon, it disgusts me!

no, it was raw bacon from Somerfield :o when DH first came to the UK, I made him some bacon sarnies, and then the next day I was at work, and he made himself lunch at our flat. I got home, asked if he'd had lunch, as the ham I'd left for him was still there. DH said 'yes, I had that ham, and it was really chewy' as he had accidentally eaten the raw bacon. I was PMSL and said to flat mate 'OMG guess what my boyfriend ate!' and flat mate went 'oh, I had some too, I often do'

it explained why we got through bacon so fast though :o

Whole boiled eggs into his porridge?

Why? Just why?

I don't know if anyone else here has ever seen a cookery show on tv by Paula Deen. It is southern US food and I can honestly say it all looked delicious but if I ate like that I would be the size of a house!

Her recommendation for bacon was to seperate the rashers and smoosh them in a plastic bag with maple syrup and brown sugar before grilling. (Have to say I haven't tried that!)

When i lived in the midwest however home fries were the potato based breakfast choice
Home fries have to be the best breakfast food ever, and I always order them if we go out to breakfast. I also love Biscuits and gravy and Chicken fried steak and country gravy. Mmmmmm

ooh, Paula Deen - there was a very funny review a while back about one of her recipes. Will try and find it.

I found it!

"Ingredients
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter
2 cans (14 1/2-ounces) English peas, drained
Directions
Melt the butter in small pot and add the peas. Cook over medium heat until peas are warm."

You have to read the reviews

That is fabulous Mme!! Reviews very funny too.

Apparently she has now developed diabetes and her son has a tv show caled "Not my mama's recipes" or something similar where he makes healthier versions of her classics.

I watched one series and think I could feel my arteries silting up. It was real food porn. I honestly think if I ate like that I'd be being winched out of my house by firefighters in a year or two.