This troper once had ranch dressing and brownies on the same plate. They touched and I tasted it. Ranch dressing now goes on everything

This troper has been a Cordon Bleugh Chef for much of his adult life. He usually makes his meals by grabbing a few different foods that he likes and mashing them together. He can probably stomach it in part due to his lack of discriminating taste, but some of them, like the beets, rice, sugar, butter, vinegar and bratwurst dish, turn out really nice.

This troper's fiancé occasionally cooks/prepares meals, particularly casseroles, in a style that can best be described as "food pile". And yet, his cooking is delicious.

This troper's mother's preferred recipe for spaghetti bolognese was basically this. Marmite should never be an ingredient in spag bol.

This troper is a true Cordon Bleugh Chef due to having a(n extremely) high bar for what he consideres "edible food" and a masochistic creativity for trying out new things with cooking. This has led to a friend saying, "Do you want some licorice sauce? What with you being a culinary savage and all." I am very proud of that description and it had led to achieving even greater heights of Cordon Bleugh, such as: I am, at the very moment of writing, in the middle of preparing extra crispy bacon with the aforementioned licorice sauce. Why? Because I can!

This troper's mother created a type of vegetable stew like this. It consists of kidney beans, chickpeas, rice and tomatoes (which can be replaced with celery, as this troper hates tomatoes, though this changes the flavor of the broth and other ingredients). As far as this troper knows, his mother just decided to throw it together one day, and it's now his favorite dish.

Just now, this troper decided to combine chicken alfredo and creamed corn in the same bowl for lunch. Wasn't that bad.

This troper once ate a roasted chicken breast and wondered what it would taste like with melted cheese. Tasted pretty good.

Umm... A couple of people on here might not think their combinations were odd if they read more cookbooks. That vegetable stew, and chicken with cheese? I've read at least fifty recipes that are markedly similar. Unrelatedly, I realize that I need to move my contribution to Lethal Chef over to this page. Here it is:

This troper is usually an excellent cook, to the point that even most of her "experiments" turn out delicious. However, sometimes she gets ''really'' bored... suffice to say, the last time it happened involved oatmeal and a lot of onions. Luckily, her mom let her throw the resulting noxious goo away.

This troper routinely grosses out his friends by doing things like putting hamburgers between slices of cake, dipping chicken into a chocolate fountain and other assorted things.

Tuna fish salad and goat cheese sandwiches. They're ''delicious'', guys! Really!

This Troper. Once when he was cooking hamburger, if a spice said it was for meat, it was used. Yes, that DID include cayenne pepper and chili powder. No-one had seconds that night, and he's never tried it again.

This troper enjoys the occasional banana topped with hot sauce.

Similarly This Troper has just discovered the joys of banana and mustard sandwiches.

This troper likes to put a dash of French or ranch dressing on his scrambled eggs. He does it only in private, though, since the time he noticed someone else at the table watching every forkful with horrified eyes.

That doesn't sound too bad, actually....

French dressing is usually just ketchup with a couple of extra spices added. Ranch dressing involves a couple of herbs regularly used in several dishes that go with eggs (like breakfast sausage) mixed with some sour cream and mayo (which is oil mixed with... eggs). Break it down, and you just have a couple extra spices going with items already frequently put on eggs. That's not unusual food combinations; that's eating with companions who don't know what makes up their food.

This troper is generally rather picky, but they are also known for inventing and enjoying some rather odd food combinations. The most sucessful ones include pork chop baked/roasted in a sauce that was basically mustard vinaigrette and served with rice, a curry that was consisted of chicken, pasta sauce and every spice and seasoning they had in the cupboard, chicken and vegetable stir-fry with honey and ketchup, crackers and cream cheese with barbecue seasoning, a sort of open sandwich consisting of vinaigrette, dijon mustard (used as a spread) and grated parmasan, and a fairly lengthy list of unlikely sandwiches made from whatever was available at the time, the ones that spring to mind being tuna fishcake and bean salad, pickled red cabbage, italian salami and cheese, and cucumber and wholegrain mustard. They've also watched a few episodes of {{Bleach}} and fail to see what's so weird about some of Orihime's creations.

Tonight's dinner was basically one long example of this trope in action. Main course was a noodle dish involving egg noodles, cucumber, black bean sauce, soy sauce, honey, chilli paste, ginger, garlic and mustard. Dessert was cold custard and crab apple jelly. All suprisingly good, well to me anyway.

Do not eat anything cooked by DeltaOne. Previous meals have included potato-and-hotdog pizza and a funky combination of banana and sushi, which was only not a pizza because the pizza mix failed to set so it became a sort of dough-banana-sushi soup.

This one isn't ''quite'' Cordon Bleugh, it's just a little uncommon. Recently, I made some brownies with hot peppers that turned out pretty good, then took them to share with the choir. One old German lady was taken aback, but the brownies were pretty well received. If I recall correctly, the chocolate served by the Aztecs had peppers in it. I personally was a little disappointed, as the peppers didn't lend much bite to the brownies.

This Troper (Flareth) did something similar to that for a thing in Spanish class. I don't think anyone ate them though. And mine were pretty hot...but still kinda good, in a way.

In order to bring out the spiciness of peppery brownies, might I recommend making them with soy or coconut milk rather than with cows' milk? Dairy neutralizes spiciness.

And with over a million hits arising when one googles "spicy brownies," this definitely falls out of CordonBleughChef and into the norm.

@/{{JET73L}} is such a proud example of the CordonBleughChef that he is using a nigh-unprecedented (for him, anyway) lack of this troper. Since childhood, he has mixed various ingredients just to see what they taste like (ice cream is particularly good with salty or briny things like pickles or black olives, as well as fried breaded chinese-food style chicken dipped in vanilla ice cream), and since then has developed a strong feel for how different flavors and textures would be together. He does, however, occasionally get really bored and hungry when there is not much of a choice of ingredients in the house (just leftovers and stale cold cereal) and might do something like (but certainly not including) forgetting that, unless properly catalyzed, tomato sauce makes milk curdle instantly.

Being a student makes this pretty much inevitable, you know what works well for stir-fry if you've no sauce for it, Branston pickle, true facts.

Mashed Potatoes, Macaroni, Cheese, Garlic powder, Green Beans, and a handful of dirt and Cilantro for flavor. (It was freeze dried food, cooked in one pot hundreds of miles from civilization) Tasted like, well, Barf. Looked about the same too.

Original troper with an add on: Cheeseburgers cooked over the open flame of last years homework and topped with slices of ash. Non-toxic, not too tasty, but it got rid of the homework. Never to be tried again.

This troper doesn't usually cook at all, but when she does it has a tendency to become this. For the record, tuna and turkey sandwiches are delicious. As an edit, if there's no turkey around chicken works too.

Once, while stopping by my parents' house, I went looking for a snack and found some leftover pie in the fridge. Turned out to be an apple, raisin, and cow's heart pie. It was considerably BetterThanItSounds.

This troper's aunt is a decent chef, though she has a tendency to experiment; which often results in some really nasty looking stuff. One that has now become legendary is the Seven Can Soup; a mixture of 7 different soups that said aunt loved by themselves, so she figured they'd be good together. My sister tried some when she spent the night there ages ago, and it was so bad, that she woke up in the middle of the night with a bad stomach ache brought on by the soup and though she was going to die.

This troper once attempted to make a hot dog fajita by combining weiners and ketchup with grated cheese and a tortilla shell. It was horrible.

This troper would just like to come in and say that Cheetos and chocolate sauce taste interesting. She gets weird looks from her friends when she mentions this. She likes to attribute this discovery to her dad, who, when bored and hungry, has a tendency to find different snack items and put random toppings on them. Example; Doritos and mustard apparently taste delicious (troper disagrees since she hates mustard), but chocolate peanut butter cups with ketchup are disgusting.

http://thecerealbaker.blogspot.com/2011/02/chocolate-covered-cheetos.html You are welcome

This troper (Godeskian) has been accused of this by his friends to the point where none of them will eat anything this troper offers without questioning its ingredients first. Cover one little burger in chocolate, vinegar crisps and strawberries and you're labelled for life....

This troper may be the first person to ever have the idea to mix mashed potatoes with easy-mac, greenbeans, and oatmeal. Shockingly, it was not only edible, but good.

A guy this Troper attended Grad School with, for meals he brought in (and offered to share) things like Peanut Butter, Butter and Soy Sauce sandwiches or cold cereal with hotdog slices.

This troper's younger sister loves peanut-butter-and-lunch-meat sandwiches, used to eat yogurt with toast and, most recently, has taken to enjoy syrup on her fish sticks. These are only a few examples of the strange things she has eaten over the years. Fortunately, this troper does the cooking.

Several of this troper's friends have reacted this way to the basic components of Clamato, claiming that tomato + clam is a combination that Should Not Be. I think they are silly, as it tastes delicious. Besides, it never seemed out of the ordinary to me, and it's a fairly common drink here in StargateCity, so this might actually be a regional thing that would more properly fall under ForeignQueasine.

Clamato definitely qualifies as one of America's entries into ForeignQueasine - this troper told a British friend about it, and he looked horrified and refused to believe it existed until shown during a visit.

This trope should be titled Teen Style Cooking; why, today alone I had Colby Crab Potato Stir-Fry for lunch, and it was delicious. The attempt to mimic a V8 Fusion Smoothie... Not So Much.

An old acquaintance of this troper particularly likes combining sweet and savory ingredients; he'll, for example, add candy to a cheese-and-avocado sandwich, or butterscotch and sugared cereal to pasta sauce, or sprinkle parmesan on ice cream. And usually claims to like the results.

This pageless troper has constantly contemplated what Watermelon Curry(Spicy, of course.) would taste, naturally, he too subscribes to being a Cordon Bleugh Chef.

I have NEVER been given a rest from the chicken-bacon-corn-baked beans-bechamel sauce-mango combination...

Not me, but ''somebody'' thought of it: I went to a sweet shop that sold bacon dipped in chocolate. It was surprisingly delicious.

This troper's father said that nothing he ate ever surprised him after high table dinners at Merton College. Apparently the chef fancied himself a bit of a culinary experimenter and while the day-to-day fare was pretty standard, on special occasions he'd come up with dishes like sole with bananas.

The troper herself has as a catch phrase "eat it, you'll like it", and ninety-eight percent of the time she's right. Mangoes with honey and curry powder, for example. Fresh tomato sauce with bacon. Yam perogis. Fig and balsamic tiramisu (you have to be ''really'' careful with the vinegar but done just right it's beautiful). Roast beef with maple-blackberry au jus. Turkey mole negro. And so on. The final two percent is a killer, though. For the record, clams and orange juice don't get along.

This troper has inexplicably come across several different people who quite fancy peanut butter and pickle sandwiches.

This troper once made noddles with a ham stock and served with chicken and stir fried vegetables. When he was re-making it a week later, he considered changing the ham stock to fish stock, but was told not to do so by his dad, who was assisting. Then again, his dad was once a (temporary) chief, so...

Also, when he was younger, he used to have crisp sandwiches (with butter on the bread). It was ok, but you really needed a glass of water when you were finished. Oh, and he once deep froze some gummy sweets inside ice cubes. Lets just say that he never repeated that experiment again.

This troper has actually eaten fish sticks and custard. And liked it.

This troper's soon-to-be-aunt claims to have gotten a "better than it sounds" "recipe" for something whose status as a food is highly suspect from her probably-wicked stepmother. It involved spaghetti, sausage, and ''applesauce''. This troper is thankful that he could opt out of eating that culinary catastrophe.

Sounds more like your loss than anything else.

this troper, apparantly, due to her (over?)use of herbs and spices. I don't see anything wrong with putting cinamon, mayonaise and curry powder in one dish, personally. (Dish in question? Tomato and herb pasta. Originally.)

Not quite cooking, but just eating certain dishes together that people normally don't do. My family finds that eating kimchi along side of spaghetti tastes pretty good.

Spaghetti alla Inchon?

My grandpa decided to put salted pop corn in a soup dish, and poured milk in it. Then, he ate it like it was cereal. And that is just the top of the iceberg.

Not so much this trope as this is how traditionally popcorn was eaten.

This troper calls her method of recipe creation "creative cooking." She has used this to create all manner of things, from soups to stir fries to oddly-flavored rice, all to great success (at least according to her and her brother). But she has a feeling most normal people wouldn't appreciate strawberry-soy rice the way she would. She has also tried a few recipes Inoue Orihime has mentioned, and enjoyed them as well.

Subverted in that this troper actually knows how to cook, and really well; she just has weird tastes, and uses her own special recipes as something of a GuiltyPleasure.

As a 10-year old, I often made the following sandwich for myself: Raspberry jam, cheese, caviar, and green olives. (I don't anymore, though just jam and cheese is yummy.)

I have a fondness for raw meat. Though it's not my only cordon bleugh implement, it has so far been used seasoned with asparagus and nori seaweed (for pretty good results), marinated in vinegar, Worcestershire sauce and spices (Good!) and either seasoned or marinated and used in tacos (good!), among other things. The marinade must NOT overdo on the vinegar or the spices, however. It. MUST. NOT.

I tried mixing Coke and Ramune together. Didn't taste too bad, actually.

I just tried dipping Pocky sticks in sweet chili sauce. Tasted better than I expected.

I used to put green beans or other vegetables in my pancakes. Cheese and other pizza ingredients actually make great pancake additions. (Just use a non-sweetened pancake batter.)

I have a marked tendency to start out following the recipe, and then get bored and see what random ingredients I can get away with adding. My spaghetti sauce with crushed mint was surprisingly quite a hit. I've also added fruit (oranges and bananas) to vegetable soup, mixed tabasco sauce with chocolate cake mix, and will add vinegar to ''anything''. That being said, my putting crispy bacon into the food processor when I made salsa was ''brilliant''.

This troper loves carrots, but hates peanut butter. So, you ask, what possessed her to mix the two? Well, her friend said it was delicious. She was correct.

Sometimes when I was younger I'd make peanut-butter-and-cheese sandwiches, and they'd always turn out nice. That's all I have to say on the matter right this moment.

I'm a decently good cook, but I like to experiment. The cinnamon ginger hamburgers were actually surprisingly delicious, and the biggest thing I like to mess with is making omelets. I just throw leftovers into them, and results vary. Chicken Parmesan omelet? Delicious. Steak and onion omelet? Awesome. Banana omelet? Not so much. Especially when I put american cheese in every omelet, ever (unless I'm replacing it with mozzarella instead).

This troper could be described as this. I occasionally do weird things with my food. My most famous example is scrambled eggs with a little cinnamon and sugar. Most people give me this look like "Do you even have taste buds...?", but then I make them a little, and almost everyone I've gotten to try it has liked it. One person even called it gourmet and wrote it down for future reference. Other masterpieces of mine are an open sandwich of balogna and melted cheese on a slice of bread, graveyards (the drink) made with juice and tea added in with the soda (that are known to be great, but tart enough to hurt at first), and carrots dipped in the caramel dip meant for apples.

My uncle claims he became one out of necessity; it kept people from stealing his food. Among his conquests was the unholy Jalapeno-Cheddar Oatmeal. He claims that nobody has ever attempted to steal his bagel twice. I guess it's a trait; I've done some food-tinkering as well. My first attempt at making chili was essentially this, as I had no idea what I was doing(It still turned out fine, though). I once tried to make a proper pasta using ramen noodles(too squishy). Also, I'll put mayonnaise on ''anything.'' I've just now learned the glories of salt in the world of desserts and now have plans to make crispy bacon fudge. I'll tell you guys how that pans out later.