Weirdest Ingrediant You've Used?

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Registered: 12-04-2003
Weirdest Ingrediant You've Used?
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Wed, 03-15-2006 - 3:04pm

When you're cooking or eating

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Registered: 12-04-2003
Wed, 03-15-2006 - 4:06pm
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Registered: 03-19-2003
Wed, 03-15-2006 - 7:06pm

Not too adventurous I'm afraid...can't think of anything I've cooked.....but how about something I had out at a restaurant?


When you're cooking or eating

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Registered: 12-04-2003
Thu, 03-16-2006 - 1:17pm

IG, it was exactly those couple of meals that had me thinking about this question actually - you had a couple of dinners out and food looked quite exotic!


Sometimes when you experiment or take a chance on an unusual meal out you can discover that certain things really go together well even though you'd never think it!


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Registered: 11-16-2005
Thu, 03-16-2006 - 1:30pm

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Sweet and sour sauce with chopped tomatoes and curry.


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It was wonderful!


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It's one of my *treats*, yes!

The grossest thing was sweet chili sauce with rice vinegar on cucumbers. That tasted like I threw up in my mouth! However wasabi sauce on the same thing taste totally different and good.

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Registered: 10-26-2004
Thu, 03-16-2006 - 2:17pm

Saltine crackers in a dessert would be the weirdest thing I've tried. SO made the recipe. We saw it on Paula's Home Cooking on the Food Network one day while we were sitting at my place having lunch. Since SO's daughter had some carmel syrup and chocolate syrup too, he decided to do it.


It tasted OK, I mean chocolate over caramel, but it was too soft. He said he didn't bake it because he was getting impatient (not like him to get impatient - that's me). I think it would have been better if he had followed the recipe. She put the crackers on the sheet pan and then placed the caramel sauce over them and baked it. It sort of came out looking like a shiny sheet. She put the chocolate over it while it was warm and then let it set up in the frig.


I think it needed the time in the oven to dry it out and the time in the frig to harden again after the chocolate melted.


All in all, it wasn't too bad - the sweet and salty, but I'd rather just have a chocolate covered pretzel.


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