Weird food combos

[MrsMaxwell]

DH isn’t very confident when it comes to cooking. So if he does cook I try to just leave him to it.

He’s been off work for two weeks and at home (he’s in the forces and lives on base so when he’s home he’s not working but I am).

He’s been cooking dinner every night for the first time in 8 years which is great.

But he does some really weird food combos. Pie with baked beans (two wet things?) and chops with mash and cauliflower cheese (two carbs?) are two examples.

I wouldn’t and haven’t said anything but WTAF?

Would you prefer “moist”?!

neither wet nor moist bother me as individual word but for some reason everyone going on about wet and food is making me feel quite odd.... lol

Sausage roll on toast reminds me of the 'austerity sandwich' - saw it online years ago - a slice of toast between 2 slices of bread.

Tried that once too, wasn't nice.

I also tried that lasagne sandwich tescos brought out years ago, needless to say, that wasn't nice either.

*sausage roll IN toast

You can never have too many carbs or too much "wet" food!! I need wet food with a meal or I can't eat it. Some sort of sauce or gravy, the more the merrier. Your DH's meals sound great.

I get the cauliflower cheese bit though. We sometimes have it instead of a carb because it's pretty filling (but it's not a carb, as you now know) so we have steak WITH A SAUCE and cauliflower cheese and MUSHY PEAS. Cauliflower cheese with mash is a bit weird. Cauliflower cheese with roasties is ace.

Chips and rice = yes
Chips and pasta = no
Pasta and garlic bread = yes
Pizza and chips = no*

*unless the pizza is battered then deep fried. This then becomes a pizza crunch and must be served with chips and white, buttered bread. 'Mon the carbs.

I do do cauliflower cheese with a roast and gravy

Cauliflower cheese with mash is a bit weird

It's not the cauli and mash that's weird 😉

I'm guessing you're Scottish with your deep fried pizza perversion 🍕. I lived in Edinburgh for 18 years but I couldn't do deep fried pizza. Deep fried garlic cauliflower from the Alba Doro in Stockbridge though 💖

If he's military you're lucky he's not cooking "all in stew" which is anything he finds all chucked in together!
I have an DS with ASD his favourite is banana dipped in ketchup or cheddar cheese dipped in ketchup. I have high hopes he may be a chef one day and people will embrace his rather limited but quirky offerings!!

OP you'd freak right out if you met my OH - he loves pie with beans AND gravy

Thing is because he’s military my DH will eat fucking anything

Why would you eat bread & butter with pizza?

Why would you eat bread & butter with pizza?

Pizza crunch buttie. The batter grease melts the butter. You're welcome.

I'm guessing you're Scottish with your deep fried pizza perversion

Born and raised but I have scarpered daahn saaaf now. I do return to the Motherland annually though in order to clog up my arteries with my so-called perversions.

He comes from the land of the Parmo which is actually bloody lovely but a heart attack on a plate!

Oh God! I encountered the Parmo for the first and only time about two years ago. YABU to find it lovely.

However your food views are weird apart from that. Cauliflower cheese is one of my favourite things and goes with almost anything IMO

I would like to point out he didn’t make the cauliflower cheese- it was mine reheated.

You are wrong about Parmo’s

And don't forget the Scottish classic of the bean and potato pie.

Scotch pie, no pastry topping but topped with mashed potatoes and beans.

A full meal in a pie

What the hell is in a Scotch Pie?!

Slighy spicy meat filling, almost mince like in texture.

Standard scotch pie has the pastry top. Pastry is a hot water pastry.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_pie

TBF it doesn’t look that appetising

Ohhhh I'm veggie now but scotch pie is yum!!! If I could make a decent hot crust I'd make a veggie version - it's the spices. Not as spicy as haggis, just flavoured but delicious

And don't knock pizza crunch until you've tried it

I would kill for a parmo or a scotch pie

MrsMaxwell

Scotch pies are quite dry so you could feasibly have a wet with one.

I hail from parmo land too - you're right, ots bloody lovely :)

But pie, chips and beans is normal and we have sausage, mash, cauli cheese and peas regularly.
I thought you were going to say something like spag bol and sprouts!!

I get Scotch pies delivered from a butcher in Scotland (there are 12 in our freezer). As a child we had Scotch pie, mash and beans every Tuesday (before Guides).
I adore them.