Tuesday night. I'm hungry. Roommates are all out of the house. I'm alone in the kitchen. What to have for dinner? No lunch meat. Sandwich is out of the question. Don't feel like eggs. Had them for breakfast. What's that? Pasta! Yes, the college student fallback. But wait...no pasta sauce. That's ok, I'll make my own. Milk: check. Flour: check. Butter: ...no dice. Tearing apart the fridge, I find a bottle of teriyaki sauce and a bottle of ranch dressing. Dare I? I do.

And you know what? It's damn tasty. I'm extremely proud with how this combination turned out. I'm having a bowl of it right now. The only way I could describe it to my roommates (cause they were too afraid to try it themselves) was that every bite tastes like "Oh no! The teriyaki is going to be so overpower...no wait. We're good."

What experiments have you done for food that you had no idea how they were gonna turn out but turned out alright?

A peanut butter and bacon sandwich. It was godly.

Dry ginger ale and UHT milk, roughly in a 5:2 ratio.

Root beer with added vanilla extract. Yummy.

I turned on my oven and took a pita bread adding tomato basil sauce, some extra virgin olive oil, and parmesan cheese because that was the only cheese I had. I baked it in the oven for some time and it was yummy. Now I have a new recipe.

pita bread lathered with miso paste topped with ginger. pretty damn good.

Well, there WAS this one thread none too long ago about peanut butter and banana omelettes...

I've made my own recipe for a teriyaki soup. I usually cook about a pound of chicken in small pieces, and once it's cooked through I add in potato, carrot, and water. At this point I go ahead and add a jar of teriyaki sauce, bean sprouts, and sometimes bamboo. Just let it boil and steam for about twenty minutes, then it comes out soft and very tasty. I usually use Kikkoman baste and glaze. I've been wanting to add Kale and Raddish, but most people don't appreciate it.

Make sure you use enough vegetables and water though, otherwise the teriyaki sauce will be a little strong. (They do absorb some of it during cooking though.)

Mixing different brands of soda together is about as creative as I get in the kitchen. Mountain Dew Game Fuel blue and original was pretty tasty.

Fired Chicken/Chicken Strips:

Use the chicken seasoning in Maruchan Chicken Ramen. Mix it in with the flour. The taste is godly.

I gagged a little. Miso paste?! Uh.

Oh, thanks a lot, you just made me hungry. <_<

Teriyaki sauce makes everything awesome.

Mash potato and beef burger. Starchy goodness.

First drink cognac, then drink milk.
Mettwurst on toast.
100% rye bread filled with a fried egg and sausage slices. Best sandwich ever.
Salmon on rye bread.
Mettwurst on rye bread with mayonaise.

Hmm....

1 Chicken briast diced into small 1/4 to 1/2 inch pieces
3 to 4 tablespoons worth of olive oil your preference
Garlic Powder
Onion Powder
Salt
Pepper
Chili Powder

Just sauteed the chicken briast on high heat almost a stir fry style with the olive oil adding in the spices in a mixture. After they seem done I put some aluminum foil in a bowl and pour the stuff into the aluminum foil then close it up while in the bowl. This helps to cook it a bit longer and finish it off allowing things to come together quite nicely. Usually let this sit for about 5 to 12 minutes and then just open the foil carefully digging out the pieces that I want to eat. It'll serve 2 people or 1 hungry person depending upon your preferences.

Best part is the residue in the pan you used to cook the chicken in can be utilized to make a great gravy with the left over spices if there are some. *usually do 1/2 to 1 teaspoon for each of the powders then 1/2 for the pepper 1 1/2 for salt*

Ones that went wrong? I'm reminded of a friend's attempt to make some banoffee pie: they were normally pretty good, but this time she wandered off to watch telly and forgot about the (unopened) tins of evaporated milk that were happily getting increasingly hot until they finally exploded, covering the kitchen ceiling in caramelised milk. And then the desperate phone call to help her repaint the ceiling before her parents came back the following day. :laugh:

My favourite three experiments:

1. Dairylea and Peanut Butter sandwiches. (Dairylea is a processed cheese spread that is very mild and quite salty - it balances the sweet/cloying taste of peanut butter very well.)
If you want to be really adventurous, spread Dairylea and Peanut Butter on half-toasted bread and then grill it.

2. Cheesy Beef Bake. Boil up some pasta (something like pasta twists or macaroni) and gently fry some minced beef until it turns brown. Make up some gravy and stir it into the beef and then pour the beef/gravy mix into the bottom of a baking dish. Now make a white sauce: get a mug and put a heaped dessertspoon of flour into the bottom. Stir in some milk, adding it slowly but beating it quickly until all the lumps are gone, and fill the mug to the top. Now strain the pasta, pour the sauce-mix into the pasta and return to the heat until the sauce thickens. Grate (or finely chop) some cheese - I use cheddar - and stir it in until your pasta is coated in a thick cheese sauce. Now pour the whole lot over the minced beef, completely covering it. Bake the whole lot in the oven at 180C for about 20 minutes.

3. Beef and potato hotpot. This is basically lasagna, but instead of pasta, slice unpeeled potatoes and partially boil them (about 10 mins) and then layer them up with the beef/onions/tomato sauce and top with the white sauce/cheese just as you would lasagna.

This actually sounds quite nice, but I'm too scared to try it.

Oh, I just remembered, Marmite and lettuce sandwiches are delicious.

Dipping peanut butter sandwhiches in pumpkin soup. Pretty damn tasty.

I accidentally put some lemon juice into the crêpes batter instead of on the fish that stood next to it. Glorious mistake. And then Ma told me that this was the secret I was missing from our perfect family recipe. Mean, mean Ma. ^_^

I tried this last night. http://i730.photobucket.com/albums/ww306/kronus126/223939_209524752399684_100000264837548_773177_4181618_n.jpg

Its a baked portobello cap, with steamed spinach, and seared ahi tuna. It was fantastic.

Man that's some experiment!
I saw that cap you wear in a pic someplace....no joke there.
Now I'm hungry...portobellos sounds good.

I've got one that's not original but I believe it must have been someone's experiment....
Half ketchup and half Coca Cola = BBQ sauce. Brooks (brand, it's spicy) Ketchup is best.
Think I'm kidding? Try it. Could probably add something else to it, but it is basically BBQ sauce.

Ever had Thai food? You know, with peanuts, chili and lime? It's a similar effect.

Heheh ... this topic inspired me to bake my beef dish for dinner tonight.

Here's one I did one time but haven't made it in a while.

Make French toast...you know, grilled bread dipped in egg and milk mix. (w/margerine on top afterwards)

Make a grilled cheese sandwich out of it instead of putting syrup on it, (like I usually do French toast).

This could already be called something else, I don't know, but I pat myself on the back thinking it was original. It's very filling.

I once made http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3063/3001961455_2550128d93.jpg from a recipe without knowing ANYTHING about it. Didn't look as good as the picture though, and I guess it doesn't count because it's a recipe and not an experiment, but oh well.

I could never make them again either. I have beginner's luck with cooking. I'll make something the first time, and it's alright, second time and I get overconfident and forget some step and ruin the whole thing.