The Holy Trinity

Like in jokes. It's never twos or fours, it's threes. "A priest, a rabbi, and a minister are playing golf..." "An Italian, a Jew, and a Greek are walking down the street..."

In food, there are seemingly similar rules- combos of three ingredients which are classic, seamless, and work as a team to define a type of cuisine. One was mentioned in the bean thread. Another is the classic Cajun Holy Trinity.

My nomination is tomato, basil, and garlic. And yours...?

[Robin Garr]

My nomination is tomato, basil, and garlic. And yours...?

Eggs, butter and cheese!

Or three coffee beans in a glass of Sambuca ...

I already wrote a book about my first: garlic, wine and olive oil, but there are many others.

For instance: potato, tallow, and salt!!!
Alas, not according to my doctor.

To be serious: tomato, basil, balsamic.
Why is it that basil matures in the garden before tomato? Bad, bad natural timing.

Eggs, butter and cheese!

Or three coffee beans in a glass of Sambuca ...

Brings back memories of tending bar at a country club in my early 20s. Always an odd number of coffee beans in the Sambuca....3, 5, or 7.....to avoid bad luck. Never even. Don't know where that superstition came from.

The Italian Holy Trinity: bread, olive oil, and wine!

Also pasta, tomato-based gravy, and grated cheese. And of course there is corned beef, cabbage, and potato.

Peas, corn and butter.

Lemon, mint, and EVOO.

Cheers, Carl

Bacon, cheese & mayo (sandwich).

1. Yeast, Flour, Water.

2. Barley, Water, Yeast.

Props to Thomas for dreaming up this thread. Props to Stuart for starting it.

rwj

[Jenise]

Without thinking it too hard, I thought of the French classic onions, carrots and celery. Then tomatoes, basil and olive oil. Much as I love garlic, reflexively olive oil outranks it when the first two words are tomatoes and basil. I need the olive oil for that salad, not the garlic.

1. Yeast, Flour, Water.

2. Barley, Water, Yeast.

Props to Thomas for dreaming up this thread. Props to Stuart for starting it.

rwj

Bread and beer--what, no wine???

Grapes, yeast, and SO2!

[James Roscoe]

red, white, and rose

%^)

Almost like Carl but -

Lemon, olive oil, garlic

Clink !

%^)

Moe, Larry and Curly

Without thinking it too hard, I thought of the French classic onions, carrots and celery....

Its hard to make a good soup without those three.

How about four as in:

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme!

Or better yet:

Parsley, Chives, Chervil, and Tarragon!!!

How about four ...

%^)

Give ME four and I would have to add, much to Jenise' chagrin, cilantro to the lemon, olive oil and garlic ...

Clink !

%^)

Lime, salt, and tequila.

Like in jokes. It's never twos or fours, it's threes. "A priest, a rabbi, and a minister are playing golf..." "An Italian, a Jew, and a Greek are walking down the street..."

In food, there are seemingly similar rules- combos of three ingredients which are classic, seamless, and work as a team to define a type of cuisine. One was mentioned in the bean thread. Another is the classic Cajun Holy Trinity.

My nomination is tomato, basil, and garlic. And yours...?

Thass funny. I thought it was truffles, truffles, and Cote Rotie.

That's truffles, butter, and Cote-Rotie.

BLT -- with or without the bread.

Carrots, celery and onions.

1. Yeast, Flour, Water.

2. Barley, Water, Yeast.

Props to Thomas for dreaming up this thread. Props to Stuart for starting it.

rwj

Bread and beer--what, no wine???

Grapes, yeast, and SO2!

Thanks Thomas. I was trying to think of the 3rd thing in wine but was already to drunk to do so.

rwj

Dungeness crab, drawn butter, Savennières.

Love to see the split between the Northern dairy responses and the Mediterranean olive oil responses.

Personally, the most sacred of the trinities is

Tomatoes, cheese, and bread.

red, white, and rose

But, I also think along those lines, slightly modified to

White, red, sweet

as the progression of wines I wish I could have with each meal..