scallions + brown butter + parmesan Have you ever had brown butter? Basically, if you’re a fan of butter, it’s IMPOSSIBLE to not like brown butter. Brown butter is basically when you give butter a glow-up and you can never look at plain butter the […]
banana+dates+oatmeal When I first thought about trying this combination as a muffin, my first thought was “cinnamon would be GREAT in this”. Objectively, this is true – cinnamon is on the pairing list for each of these three ingredients. However, before I started this, I […]
maple + mascarpone Maple & Mascarpone – this flavor combination evoked many different ideas, ranging from super simple to much more complex. However when it came down to truly wanting to understand the flavors and how much one impacted the other, I opted to keep […]
peaches + champagne Growing up, we had a peach tree in our backyard for a short time. I don’t remember too much about that tree (other than a classic family photo of my younger sister and myself posed beneath it) but I do remember the […]
dill + potato + soup A fun thing about The Flavor Bible is that not only are ingredients included in the list of pairings for an ingredient, but also different preparations. It adds an additional layer to the flavor balancing because it also allows you […]
allspice+garlic+pork+tomato Maybe it’s just me, but when I think of allspice, it’s typically when I’m baking, especially around the holidays. While I have used it in savory dishes before, using my savory brain for it with garlic, pork and tomatoes was a really fun challenge. […]
apples + cinnamon + cranberry This flavor combination felt completely natural to me and I was immediately hit with two ideas – applesauce or apple pie. Now, I know I could have spent a little more time and perhaps looked for something a bit less […]
miso+soy+salmon Salmon is such an easy fish to play with, though admittedly I haven’t been overly adventurous with the flavors I typically use when making it for my family. Fish has been tough to sell at the dinner table with some of our children and […]
chocolate+chile powder+cinnamon If you’ve never had Mexican chocolate or a flourless chocolate cake before, you are in for a DOUBLE treat. Let’s start by talking about what makes Mexican chocolate so special Unlike mass-market chocolate bars we primarily see here in the US, Mexican chocolate […]
almonds+coffee+orange One of my favorite parts of this journey is how a flavor pairing that seems unintuitive on the surface to me is one that actually works very well together! What threw me off on this one initially was the coffee and orange pairing. If […]
chocolate+chile powder+cinnamon If you’ve never had Mexican chocolate or a flourless chocolate cake before, you are in for a DOUBLE treat. Let’s start by talking about what makes Mexican chocolate so special Unlike mass-market chocolate bars we primarily see here in the US, Mexican chocolate […]
ginger + five spice powder + molasses Growing up, we never really had gingerbread as one of our traditional Christmas cookies. Maybe they would show up at an extended family Christmas but if they did, they never spoke to me. That’s different now – the […]