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Fried Egg Sandwich with Bacon and Blue Cheese

Due to a delightful clerical error (a scheduled babysitter when we forgot Alex would be home from work), I got to have a weekday lunch with my husband on President’s Day. In a . With on the table and no sippy cups in a two-table radius! Oh, and maybe something petite, bubbly and pink in a glass. I admit nothing. But man, sometimes I think everyone should have kids just so they can get 80 times the joy out of excursions that would have been ordinary in another era. I am joking, of course. You should have kids because you detest sleeping past 6 a.m. Whoops, there I go again. It must be the pink bubbly.

By smittenkitchen · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Blue cheese and egg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and 118 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

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Contains: egg, milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By smittenkitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Blue cheese + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together118 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Shallot + mustardtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together842 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Endive + shallottop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Endive + mustardtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together121 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Mustard + vinegartop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Mustard and vinegar share little aroma chemistry, yet 14,067 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the endive

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (shallot, mustard, red wine, vinegar, pepper, blue cheese, butter):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Chivebetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Endivethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against shallot, mustard, red wine, vinegar, pepper, blue cheese, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).