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Roasted cauliflower and chocolate. I like to dust coco powder in the last 3 min.

Raisins and anchovies.

Mushrooms and coffee.

Garlic, chocolate, and coffee.

As a kid I remember jam (probably strawberry) and cheese (Cheddar or red Leicester) sandwiches being pretty awesome. For manifold reasons, peanut butter was not something made available to me back then, so that would be the closest our house ever got to that.

Jägermeister with milk. Or Batida de coco (with or without milk). Or with lemon juice and definitely no milk. (Don't judge me, it's legit good with milk)

Garlic bread and sausage gravy.

Please just trust me and try it. It's actually really fucking good.

Chocolate and anything spicy.

Orzo (rice shaped pasta) and peanut butter, its ultra-dense camping food, never need to make more than a small bowl.

Half pure orange juice and half cola.

Peanut butter and ajvar.

Oreos and yellow mustard. Don't knock it til you try it. Then call me a heathen, respectfully.

Chicago corn (cheddar popcorn mixed with caramel corn). Sounds weird - is awesome.

Kraft Dinner with Dill

Hummus and pesto. Just dump some pesto in your hummus and thank me later. You can buy both, obviously, but you can also easily make both from scratch so it can be super cheap once you have the core ingredients. It’s basically no harder than making a smoothie.

Bonus: basil grows whether you want it to or not, at least in most climates. If you have a spice garden, you kind of have to keep basil from dominating. But it also makes an excellent, cheap gift. When I was younger, I had a basil plant that lived for a few years and got huge and I just brought clippings instead of wine (or whatever) to parties. I saved tons of money and no one has ever been like, “Get the fuck out of here with that fresh basil.”

Cooked buckwheat groats, bilberries (those wild Nordic blueberries) and maple suryp. With some soy milk. Great breakfast! Some almonds or nuts too.

Salt on watermelon, and salt on pineapple.

Also, cayenne pepper on anything chocolate - brownies, ice cream, etc.

Cooked Eggs (preferably poached) On toast with....

Vegemite.

You can thank me later.

Popcorn and pickles. Worked with a pregnant lady who had a craving for these together and, well, she wasn’t wrong.

Alright if you know you know....

Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia ice cream and Garden of Eatins Red Hot Blues tortilla chips.

You asked for surprising...

Both of these are established dishes, so I don't know if I could call them unexpected, but:

• Jalapeno chocolate fudge cake, tried on a whim at a restaurant. Thought it might be a disaster, but hot stuff and sweet (and fatty) stuff works surprisingly well together. I suppose that it's kind of closer to how the Mesoamericans used to originally eat cocoa, which could be with chilis:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_cuisine#Cacao

  Chocolate could be prepared in a huge variety of ways and most of them involved mixing hot or tepid water with toasted and ground cacao beans, maize and any number of flavorers such as chili, honey, vanilla and a wide variety of spices.[31]

  The ingredients were mixed and beaten with a beating stick or aerated by pouring the chocolate from one vessel to another. If the cacao was of high quality, this produced a rich head of foam. The head could be set aside, the drink further aerated to produce another head, which was also set aside and then placed on top of the drink along with the rest of the foam before serving.

• Five Guys does a milkshake with bacon sprinkles that I thought sounded like it could be pretty gross, but crunchy salty apparently works with sweet fatty as well. Goes somewhat downhill as the bacon looses its crispness, though. Be interesting if there's some sort of waterproof coating that one could put on it. ("chocolate-coated bacon bits?")

Macaroni and cheese and pretty much anything.

Tuna Mac: Tuna?

Tuna and any grilled vegetables?

Poverty Mac: Pork and beans?

Pork and beans AND chopped up hotdogs?

Spaghetti Mac: Leftover spaghetti sauce?

Taco Mac: Leftover taco meat?

Get the velveeta Mac and cheese for extra luxury.