Ever look at certain couples and wonder what they have in common? I mean sometimes there’s a nerd with a hot looking model. Sometimes it’s a Goth with a preppie. Or an academic type with a homeboy. It’s the same thing with food. There are odd couplings that make you want to go “Huh?” The truth is they’re pretty good together and create a unique and delicious taste!
You would never think of adding to horse radish to any salad yet a dose of it in cole slaw is wonderful. It livens up the cabbage and brings out its’ initial sweetness. It also cuts the creaminess of the mayonnaise and gives it a sharp exciting bite .Another odd yet yummy coupling is bacon and cream cheese on a toasted bagel. You would think it would make anyone sick while eating it but you’re wrong. The cream cheeses delicate taste balances the bacon’s saltiness. It’s the same principle behind bacon with maple syrup anything. The extreme salinity balances out the sweet. That’s why there are bacon maple lollipops and bacon maple doughnuts out there these days.
Traditional sweets are getting some strange friends these days. Besides the bacon and maple there’s the caramel and sea salt. This is pretty common these days and the pairing does make sense. The sea salt brings out the caramel’s meld of butter and sugar while providing an unexpected crunch. It’s the same principle about adding salt to cookie and cake mixes. Another wild pairing is chocolate with chili peppers. The Aztecs originally came up with this centuries ago but once chocolate was sweetened by the Europeans the coupling was dropped. Peppers brings out chocolate’s wild side and let its’ different and complex flavors come to life. Of course it can also be paired with mild and edible lavender. It’s a different taste, sweeter and perhaps even earthier.
There will always be odd couples out there, especially in the culinary world. They create something new and a vast improvement on already established tastes. It may not be something we’re used to but it’ll always result in something we’ll like and possibly even come to love.
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Gourmet Lollipops - They're Not Just For Kids
There's something satisfying and comforting about a lollipop. It brings us back to our childhoods while letting us take a mini break from our daily, hectic adult lives. Luckily the sweet treat has emerged into something that appeals to adult tastes and trends. It's not just a fruit flavor kiddie sucker anymore.
Lollipops in some form or another have been around since pre historic times. Cavemen routinely put something sweet such as honey on a twig and ate it. During the Middle Ages , candies was placed on small sticks and eaten. Later boiled sugar treats were favored in the American colonies and then in 1908 the modern lollipop was born. Both California and Wisconsin can lay claim to it. A Russian immigrant, Samuel Born, made a automated lollipop machine around the same time as the Racine Confectioners Machinery Company did. The last was known for making up to forty pops per minute.
Today candy companies have gone a step further and introduced all sorts of interesting flavors to the lollipop. Instead of the usual fruit flavors such as grape or cherry, they now come in banana, chocolate mint, bubble gum, cinnamon, cotton candy and root beer float. For real foodies there's Chupa Chups, those Spanish lollies that were first made in Barcelona, Spain fifty years ago and became a worldwide sensation. This favorite of Madonna's has different tastes such as cola , chocolate and vanilla. For a really wicked treat try Lollyphile's absinthe lollipops(they also sell maple bacon flavored ones too). They are candies made with that taboo liquor absinthe (the same one that practically did in poet Oscar Wilde). You won't get the same hallucinatory kick as sipping a glass but you'll feel something. There are also margarita lollies (covered in salt) and tequilas ones complete with a worm in them from the online candy company Lollies Galore.
Foodies everywhere - indulge your inner child with one of these grown up suckers. They not only fun but kind of naughty in a good way!
You can order the absinthe lollies at www.lollyphile.com. Tequila and margarita lollies can be bought at www.lolliesgalore.com
Lollipops in some form or another have been around since pre historic times. Cavemen routinely put something sweet such as honey on a twig and ate it. During the Middle Ages , candies was placed on small sticks and eaten. Later boiled sugar treats were favored in the American colonies and then in 1908 the modern lollipop was born. Both California and Wisconsin can lay claim to it. A Russian immigrant, Samuel Born, made a automated lollipop machine around the same time as the Racine Confectioners Machinery Company did. The last was known for making up to forty pops per minute.
Today candy companies have gone a step further and introduced all sorts of interesting flavors to the lollipop. Instead of the usual fruit flavors such as grape or cherry, they now come in banana, chocolate mint, bubble gum, cinnamon, cotton candy and root beer float. For real foodies there's Chupa Chups, those Spanish lollies that were first made in Barcelona, Spain fifty years ago and became a worldwide sensation. This favorite of Madonna's has different tastes such as cola , chocolate and vanilla. For a really wicked treat try Lollyphile's absinthe lollipops(they also sell maple bacon flavored ones too). They are candies made with that taboo liquor absinthe (the same one that practically did in poet Oscar Wilde). You won't get the same hallucinatory kick as sipping a glass but you'll feel something. There are also margarita lollies (covered in salt) and tequilas ones complete with a worm in them from the online candy company Lollies Galore.
Foodies everywhere - indulge your inner child with one of these grown up suckers. They not only fun but kind of naughty in a good way!
You can order the absinthe lollies at www.lollyphile.com. Tequila and margarita lollies can be bought at www.lolliesgalore.com
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