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I don't know. I think I imagined you sucking on small peppermint sweets (candies) whilst munching the pickled cucumbers. I also thought maybe you made a sort of fruit salad with peppermint leaves and pickled cucumber - actually, that could be rather good.
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Ah. It's not a fancy treat at all. LOL The peppermint and cucumber salad sounds like a good combo. I think I'll try that!
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I used to like green pepper (capsicum) and peanut butter toasted sandwiches. I thought it odd at the time, but now I'm more familiar with world cuisines it makes sense. I think I'll try again but with a little chilli.
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Chips and mustard
Boiled rice and creamy spreadable cheese
Pop corn/crackers/crisps and nutella
Pineapple pizza
Boiled rice and creamy spreadable cheese
Pop corn/crackers/crisps and nutella
Pineapple pizza
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Oh, I forgot the combo sage+chocolate.. not joking, it’s something so good - to me at least
Chips and mustard
Boiled rice and creamy spreadable cheese
Pop corn/crackers/crisps and nutella
Pineapple pizza
You lost me with the pineapple pizza. Do you openly admit this with your Italian friends and family?
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Chips meaning UK chips? I like them with American mustard.
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Crisp sandwiches (as in UK potato crisps known as chips in the UK)
Tinned macaroni cheese with fresh cooked spinach mixed in. Its not a looker. Heinz macaroni cheese is particularly good. I think they changed the recipe as I remember the pasta used to be completely soft. Its now a little 'al dente'. Much better.
Chips (crisps) are great on tuna salad sandwiches.
The best ready made mac and cheese here is Stouffer's. Great with bacon (of course) but also with veggies like broccoli or cauliflower. Spinach would probably work well, too.
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I was joking
But making a hypothesis, I think an open admission to family and friends would be something like Clockwork Orange reaction afterwards, showing me non-stop images of Neapolitan pizzas and sacrifices to pineapple pizza in the suburbs of little Italy.
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Yes I mean UK chips, I love them too with mustard, whatever.
Crisp sandwiches, yep, count me in!
I've never had Heinz macaroni cheese...Yes, I think that 'al dente' are much better anyway, more stick to Italian pasta-style
(Have I really just said this about Heinz macaroni cheese??
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I've never had Heinz macaroni cheese...Yes, I think that 'al dente' are much better anyway, more stick to Italian pasta-style
(Have I really just said this about Heinz macaroni cheese??
That was the single worst thing I ever ate in the UK
Liver, rice and raisin casserole with lingonberry jam (it's actually the most common convenience food in Finland). The brand has to be particulal; with a sweet and savory taste and just a hue of liver. Some people feed this "crap" only to the dogs. I had a craving for this - charred brown on a skillet - when I was pregnant. We still have it sometimes - maybe a few times a year - usually accompanied with grated carrots.
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Like Windigo, I love salmiak - liquorice flavored with ammonium chloride. The saltier and stingier the better. Salmiak sticks to the teeth quite easily. Mostly you just suck the candies (until your palate sings Halleluja). I often have a glass of skimmed milk or fruit juice on the side to soften the blow.
In the summer I like munching fresh lovage from the vegetable garden - and often combine the greens with rye crackers.
I also like dipping lactic acid cured pickled (dill) cucumbers into runny honey (and maybe adding a dollop of sour cream/crème fraîche to finish). It's a Russian loan - and a quite similar pickled cucumber & sweet combo as mjd-lovescooking's pickle & mint treat. Hers is just much more fascinating - and crunchy.
One more: sliced eggs and sweet & sour pickled raw herring on top of rye bread.
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Like Windigo, I love salmiak - liquorice flavored with ammonium chloride. The saltier and stingier the better. Salmiak sticks to the teeth quite easily. Mostly you just suck the candies (until your palate sings Halleluja). I often have a glass of skimmed milk or fruit juice on the side to soften the blow.
In the summer I like munching fresh lovage from the vegetable garden - and often combine the greens with rye crackers.
I also like dipping lactic acid cured pickled (dill) cucumbers into runny honey (and maybe adding a dollop of sour cream/crème fraîche to finish). It's a Russian loan - and a quite similar pickled cucumber & sweet combo as mjd-lovescooking's pickle & mint treat. Hers is just much more fascinating - and crunchy.
One more: sliced eggs and sweet & sour pickled raw herring on top of rye bread.