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FOODS That YOU Can Make Too!

Nearly all the recipes or variations of the recipes can be found here. (www.TheFORKINGTruth.com)

Up top are potato and cheese pierogi that I fried in butter. (You are suppose to eat them boiled the first day, 2nd day sautéed with caramelized onions.) But for a crowd I think they are best fried so they are finger food.

Pistachio and Chocolate & Hazelnut rolled Cookies

Crispy tasty Potato Puffs (Potato, cream cheese, butter, seasonings filled fried wonton wrappers)

Asian Inspired 5 Spice Turkey Meatballs with Hoisin Sauce

My famous chipotle rice, cheddar, corn, potato string wrapped peppers

Crackers (bread crisps) with taleggio , home made pesto, tomato and smaller crackers with mild green chili cream cheese that I piped into roses.

These were some Foods that YOU can make too!

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My FORKING Thoughts on Reese’s PB&J Strawberry Jam Big Cup

The Reese’s PB&J cups come in strawberry jam and grape jam. I picked the strawberry jam because the grape one says right on the front artificially flavored so I thought the strawberry would be better? It’s marked U and D so it doesn’t contain any Castoreum so it’s safe to eat.

It looks different than the picture.

LOL – I thought the top would be embellished with peanut butter and jam.

I cut in half and I see the strawberry jam is near the bottom of the cup.

I try some.

It tastes mostly like a Reese’s Cup.

The strawberry jam doesn’t bring much to it.

It’s not terrible but the jam is a waste because it doesn’t have much flavor to it. It’s just there to give you less Reese’s.

Those were my FORKING Thoughts on Reese’s PB&J Strawberry Jam Big Cups. Your FORKING opinion may indeed differ.

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Foods that YOU Can Make too!

I’m just showing off some foods I made. The recipes or variations of the recipes can be found here on www.TheFORKINGTruth.com

Up top is a tomato and assorted Italian Cheese Pizza

Made gnocchi a bit different. This was just leftover ziti filling and I just added flour till it felt like gnocchi dough. Came out perfect and delicious.

I made basic deviled eggs. But I slightly pickled the white in brine from pickled beets I made.

Brought this for a group.

Lightly pickled deviled eggs with Peruvian Sweetie Drop Peppers

Corned Beef & Cabbage Pies

Mini pizza rills topped with more cheese, tomato, and pesto

Crisp breads, hummus, and corn cookies

Radish Slice with blue cheese butter & topped with sriracha

Corn pudding stuffed mini bell peppers

Chocolate chip cookies

Dutches Potato Topped Mini Red Potatoes with Thyme Butter

Those were some of the Foods that you can make too. The recipes or variations of the recipes can be found here.

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Korean Style Fried Chicken VS Thai Red Curry Lay’s Potato Chips – An EASY Winner

Fun NEW Limited Edition Lay’s Potato Chip Flavors recently came out and two of them I had to try.

One is – Korean Style Fried Chicken (Wavy)

The Other is – Thai Style Red Curry

One taste FORKING AMAZING and the other is over seasoned powdery and weird.

Sadly the loser is Korean Style Fried Chicken.

It taste like mostly too much paprika, dry garlic, dry onion, and a sort of burnt chicken taste, maybe with other flavors. It doesn’t really taste like food. It tastes like seasoning mix that you’d add to something but with a burnt chicken kind of taste.

The “WINNER” by a long shot is clearly the Thai Style Red Curry. GOSH AND YUM! this one is delicious! Even the actual chips taste better and taste like potato chips that were dipped into actual Thai Red Curry.

The “WINNER” by a long shot!

Lay’s Thai Style Red Curry

GET THEM before they run out!

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Foods that You can make – Showing Off

I’m just showing off just a few of the recipes that you can find here on www.TheForkingTruth.com

Potato & Cheese Pierogi are delicious and everyone loves them.

You can’t go wrong with chocolate chip cookies and sweet potato pies either.

You can find Pate A Chox (eclair or cream puff pastry) here

Macaroni and Cheese Stuffed Mini Potatoes

Made a less spicy variation of my almost FAMOUS chipotle rice stuffed potato string wrapped peppers…..See almost famous was featured on from page of the food section.

For a group I brought.

Pizza with heirloom tomato slices, Maple Bourbon Goat Cheese Pickled Beet Tacos, Stuffed Peppers with Chipotle Rice and Potato String Crust.

Brought more of those strawberry chocolate ricotta pastries.

Home made crackers with jalapeño cheese ball slices

Radish Slice, Blue Cheese Butter, & Sriracha

Pub Cheese Roses on Home Made Cracker

Home Made Pesto, Blue Cheese Butter, on Home Made Cracker

Cheese Pizza Buns

Cherry Filled Cookies with Chocolate Drizzle

That was a little Showing Off and Recipes or variations of the recipes can be found here in the serch.

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FORKING Thoughts on Kitchen Aid Stand Mixers

According to EVERYONE on the internet Kitchen Aid Stand Mixers are by far the best that any home cook can buy. I had mine around 15 or so years and noticed that it seems to make noises and gets so hot I think it might catch on fire. I read that the average age for a Ktchen Aid Mixer to last is about 15 years so maybe I’m due to replace it.

Recently I noticed that Kitchen Aid Mixers were on sale at Costco so I picked out a new one. When I picked it up I noticed that it isn’t as heavy as my old one……..?

I made a batch of dough and I wanted it to mix for ten minutes.

Then after 4 minutes it stopped.

I tried a few more times to start it up.

I returned it back to Costco. I still have my old Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer. Maybe it will work a few more times?

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Showing Off

Just Showing off some food I made. The recipes or variations of the recipes can be found here just use the search.

Not everything but most were for gatherings.

Mini Cheese Pizza Buns and Cheese Blintzes with Mixed Fruit Sauce

Curing Pastrami

Smoking the pastrami

Pastrami

My Pastrami on my homemade Rye Roll…(the next rye rolls came out better because I made them in an oven that didn’t suck)

Pizza Buns & Macerated Strawberry Hamentashen with Chocolate Drizzle

Had a bag of potatoes I had to use.

Made savory potato pies called knishes.

Roasted off some potatoes and filled them with the savory potato filling.

Potatoes with savory potato filling.

After making the pastrami I needed more rye rolls so-

Rye Rolls

Made deviled eggs with Peruvian Sweety Drop Peppers.

Pate a Choux, Chocolate, Chocolate Mascarpone, Lightly Macerated Strawberry

These look much prettier that what my photo shows. The Pastry (Pate a Choux was piped and looks like the Deviled Egg Swirls. I thought a light dip of chocolate would be good (and it was) The Chocolate Mascarpone was being given away at my supermarket yesterday. It seemed a little dry to me but I didn’t want to change it and added strawberries that I lightly macerated. People went NUTS over them.

Well that was some showing off.

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Showing Off

Showing off is just showing you some food I made mostly for gatherings.

Up above is

Apple, Hazelnut, Taleggio Cheese, Shishito Pepper Pizza

Potato and Cheese stuffed Peppers

Amarena Cherry Goat Cheese topped lightly Pickled Beet Slices

Tomato,Pesto, Cheese, Pizza

Butternut Squash, cannoli cheese, pistachio pizza

Macaroni & Cheese Stuffed Potatoes

Everyone loves all three of these!

Everyone likes pizza or just about everyone. I made pizza and pizza rolls. They really are the same just put together different. To my surprise the pizza rolls went first. I guess they are easier to just pick up and take.

Corned Beef & Cabbage Hand Pies

Corned Beef & Cabbage Hand Pies

For one gathering I brought this –

Chipotle rice corn cheddar with potato string wrapped peppers

Smashed red mini potatoes topped with duchess potatoes

Corned beef and Cabbage hand pies

Cherry filled cookies with chocolate drizzle

It was a morning group so the cookies and potato bites went first followed by the stuffed peppers but it all eventually went

The next day had a St Patrick’s Party and brought a big box of corned beef and cabbage hand pies and a small tray of smashed mini red potatoes topped with duchess potatoes. They went like lightning there.

This next one coming isn’t for a gathering but is worth showing off. Just starting out a pastrami.

This gets cooked up with water to cure the brisket.

This needs to sit in the refrigerator and cure for give or take a week and then it gets smoked.

It’s fun to cook and to show off.

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A Little TASTE of my Local Sprouts Farmers Market Grocery

Sprouts Farmers Markets Grocery Stores are a chain of food markets with Phoenix Arizona Headquarters. They offer a wide selection of natural and organic foods.. They also offer vitamins, bulk items, frozen foods, a deli, pet foods, health, beauty, and more.

Often I buy the organic ground turkey for making meatballs or meatloaves.

I buy mostly produce here for two reasons.

One reason is that certain things like carrots, radishes, and broccoli taste noticeably better than from my big grocery stores.

The other reason is because of the tremendous sales they periodically have.

Anyways below are just a few of the dishes I made with Sprouts Produce.

Stem Broccoli with Peanut Gojogang Sauce

Butternut Squash with Apple Salsa

Carrots with oranges and pistachios

Brussels Sprouts are often a managers special…..I don’t mind.

One day they had farmers cheese for only 99cents a tub so I made blintzes

But sometimes I see strange things here.

I also think that it is strange that they put kosher foods next to pork crumbs

That was a little taste of my local Sprouts Farmers Market Grocery.

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Showing Off

Showing Off is just showing mostly just food that I make for gatherings or somethings that are special.

Up above is pizza with burrata and balsamic, sweet potato pies with cumin seeds, allspice, cinnamon, and nigella seeds, and fresh mozzarella and parmesan pizza.

cocktail sized pastrami sandwiches….(yes I brined and smoked the pastrami and yes I baked the rye rolls.

Here was the pastrami. Brag BRAG brag brag!!!!

I’m just showing off!

People and DOGS are CRAZY about potato and cheese pierogi that were fried in butter.

Above are potato & cheese pierogi and some pistachio and chocolate fudge.

Made pickled beets and topped them with Maple Bourbon goat cheese

Made Bread Crisps and topped them with taleggio cheese and home made pesto

Made lemon topped short breads

Eggplant Parms

My Famous – Chipotle Rice Corn Cheddar Stuffed Peppers with Potato String Crust

Spice Custard stuffed Squash with Spiced Walnuts

Yotam Ottolenghi Style – Sesame Date Banana Cupcakes

That was some showing off and all the recipes or variations of the recipes can be found on my site.

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