By 8th-grader Jackie Padgett
Everyone always has some sort of secret recipe or combinations of food that not many people know about, so I’m here to share mine. You’ll notice a lot of these have peanut butter, cream cheese, and chocolate. Do I know why? To be honest, not really; I guess those three go really well with many things. Anyway, enjoy my five-course menu of odd and absurd food combos.
According to PartsTown, “A typical five-course meal consists of one-bite hors d’oeuvres, a plated appetizer, a palate-cleansing salad, the main entrée, and dessert.” So, this is how I have organized my snack menu.
The Hors d’oeuvres
Starting this five-course meal will be no other than the hors d’oeuvres, Oreos Dipped in Peanut Butter.
If this sounds familiar to you, it’s probably because they had this snack in The Parent Trap. When I first watched the movie, I felt the need to try the weird mix of food, and I immediately loved it. While talking to students about this, 8th-grader Hunter Harrington said, “By that point why don’t you just take the cream out of the middle and replace it with peanut butter?” So, I’m stealing this idea when I get an opportunity to talk to Oreo developers.
The Appetizer
Enjoy your lovely appetizer of Crackers with Nutella and Cream Cheese.
I think this is probably going to be the weirdest one here. So grab some crackers, any crackers; I prefer saltines. Also, grab any type of cream cheese and Nutella. Then, you carefully apply on a cracker the cream cheese and on another cracker the Nutella. Stick them together, and you have your appetizer. My grandma used to make this for me a bunch, but she also added peanut butter to the Nutella side of the cracker (so you have one cracker with Nutella and peanut butter and the other with cream cheese). If you’re feeling adventurous, you could try that extra step of adding peanut butter.
The Salad
After that appetizer, enjoy a Cheesy Rice Stuffed Green Bell Pepper.
This isn’t technically a salad–more as something green, but this is my menu, so it works. I’m also aware that this is an actual thing and definitely has been discovered, but I feel like more people should try it as a snack. All you do is cut off the top of the bell pepper, then scrape all of the bell-pepper insides out. After you fry some rice with whatever you want in it (for example eggs, onions, etc…), put the rice into the bell pepper, top it off with a cheese of your choice, and boom. You have the most meal-like thing on this menu.
The Entrée
Now for our main meal–Pasta with Cream Cheese. You choose a pasta of your choice (I recommend bowtie or just spaghetti), and we will make it however you want.
I think this is one of the easiest snack dishes to make. You make any pasta, drain it, then put some cream cheese and a bit of salt into the bowl with it, then enjoy! I have this a lot at my grandma’s house as this is her secret combo that I stole. This is definitely a comfort food for me as it brings back a lot of summer movie-night memories.
The Dessert
For dessert, you will be served Any Ice Cream or Sorbet, with Any Cereal, and Optional Fruit.
This along with the entrée is pretty self explanatory and not that unique. You scoop out some ice cream. Put it in a bowl, take out a cereal of your choosing, sprinkle it on top (just a bit, don’t over do it), maybe add some fruit and milk–those are optional, then bam: Ice Cream and Cereal. My favorite combos have been Count Chocula with chocolate ice cream, raspberry sorbet with Fruit Loops, and finally vanilla with Honey Nut Cheerios. I personally like this a lot because it adds a lot of customization into the ice cream, like you could literally try any fruit and cereal combo, and I doubt anything would taste that bad together.
I promise I eat other things that are different colors than beige, white, and brown. These snacks just happened to be similar food groups and colors. Do you have any underrated, maybe undiscovered, snacks? Share in the comments below; I’ll try them out!
Melissa Patino says
Jackie,
What a delightful and delicious read! I’ll need to make that cream cheese and pasta meal soon! My slightly strange yet delicious snack (although it might be more of a meal instead) are hot dogs topped with crushed potato chips and pineapple slices. Don’t knock it until you try it! The crushed potato chips and sliced pineapple slices create a perfect combination of salty and sweet flavors. I also add the trifecta of sauces (mayo, ketchup and mustard) but that may be a bit too bold for some!
Unknown says
My favorite absurd snack is plain pasta with cheese and jalapeños
szachik@pvs.org says
Blog class says, “That’s not bad!”
Mr. Hesson says
Great list! I really want to try the ice cream cereal idea and pour some espresso over it to make a breakfast-cereal affogato. Maybe as an indulgent breakfast treat on a birthday or something. Could even include some fried banana on top (another underrated dessert)!
szachik@pvs.org says
Jack says, “That sounds more expensive than absurd!”
Mateo says
My strange snack is a perfectly sliced triangular watermelon dipped in mustard. I know it sounds really weird but taste it, its really good.
szachik@pvs.org says
Gasps all around.