I came across this cookie recipe on Pinterest. It sounded too easy to be true. So I did a little research. I can’t find this exact recipe on the Martha Steward website so I don’t know if it is truly her recipe but I can tell you several bloggers credit her for this recipe. Since it’s so easy and has so few ingredients I gave it a try. This recipe makes around 12 cookies I got 16 out of mine.
MY FORKING thoughts may differ from your FORKING thoughts on these cookies. They look interesting but I HATE THEM and have to throw them out. They smell good. They smell exactly like the chestnut honey I used to make them. They taste like hard caramel that sticks to your teeth. They stick to your teeth and I think that is gross. I was going to drizzle them with chocolate…..but won’t now because they are in the trash.
Ingredients for 12-16 cookies
2 Tablespoons butter
2 Tablespoons light brown sugar
1 + 1/2 Tablespoon honey
2 Tablespoons flour
pinch salt
Directions
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
Melt the butter, sugar, and honey together. Add the flour and salt.
Do 1/2 teaspoons on parchment or silicon mat.
Bake until golden (about 6 minutes.)
I didn’t space them enough and a few stuck together. I tried a small end that broke off.
I don’t care for them. But people who love hard caramels might like them.
I showed them to my dogs.
Don’t worry I didn’t give my dogs any. I don’t want them to damage their teeth.
Those were my FORKING Thoughts on the Maybe Martha Stewart’s Honey Florentines recipe.
I do note that YOUR FORKING THOUGHTS may indeed differ.
This is a collection of the most frightful horrifying foods served to us in Las Vegas Nevada in no particular order. OK my claws are out and here it is…….
At Casa Don Jaun downtown besides cold chips that seemed purchased and oregano laced salsa I tried a chicken fajita salad. I got an uninspired warm salad that was topped with onions, peppers, tomatoes, and chicken that was drowning in salty soy sauce. Oh and a glob of guacamole. YUK! It tasted like they used half a bottle of soy sauce to make this.
The chicken ramen was made with good chicken but the broth was below standard. It tasted like some sort of instant broth with added salt. This was absolutely terrible and most of the ramen they offer at this restaurant is made with this too. I had the chicken ramen. Not all but most of the ramen they offer is a combination of pork and chicken broth.
At Victories Cafe in The Cannery besides being served over microwaved rolls that turned hard……I tried the Asian Chicken Salad. The chicken had a weird texture…..It was tender but unusually dry??????But it was the sauce on it that made me gag….It was very sweet…It just didn’t taste good.
The rice was good from Little Hong Kong but everything else was below standard……My husband tried the Szechwan beef that was hard and chewy in a sauce that we didn’t care for….Sadly we tried Mandarin hot braised vegetables and they were in the same exact sauce as the Szechwan beef. Maybe the worst dish we had there was the vinegar marinated milkfish…..I had Caribbean vinegar marinated fish before that was delicious. The fish dish from Little Hong Kong has all dried out and chewy and only tasted like old fish and vinegar…….
Sometimes you get bad food at food festivals.
Recently at the USA Today Wine and Food Festival I tried this piece of beef from Kusa Nori……Somehow they made this saltier than salt….I thought I was going to be sick after tasting it..
Same thing happened at the Great Las Vegas Taco Festival.
I wasn’t able to eat either of these tacos from El Fuego. They were so over salted that to me they weren’t edible.
Back to restaurants
EllaEm’s Soul Food won a Best of Vegas Award so I thought they’d be good. OK maybe it’s my bad for trying the fish…..(not the best) but you can clearly see problems with most of the sides. I had mixed vegetables that look like from frozen that have nothing added to them. In the middle are sweet potatoes that are sweet beyond belief. To the right is macaroni and cheese that is all dried out. My husband also had a very dried out chicken fried steak.
Bob Taylor’s Ranch House might be one of the oldest Steak Houses in Las Vegas. My husband found out that his burger was thrown on the grill from frozen. He asked for medium – rare but he got grey in the center and all dried out. I tried the BBQ chicken salad. They did give me tender chicken but it was covered in a cloyingly sweet bbq sauce and was served over warm soggy iceberg lettuce.
We had a good visit to Secret of Siam Thai Restaurant so I wanted to go back because they offer a lot of different fish dishes on their menu. I tried the green Apple Pompano……The slaw that came with it was delicious……..but……
The fish was horrifying…….It came out like they boiled it in glue. I dug and dug with my fork and it was next to impossible to get flesh to eat….But when I managed to get a small morsel……..ICK!
It’s FORKING gross…..It’s that old fish taste.
That was The Halloween 2023 Special Edition of The FORKING Truth where I shared the most frightful, horrifying foods served to me in Las Vegas NV.
Have something good and don’t go hungry on Halloween.
Van Leeuwen makes higher and high quality packaged French Style ice creams (French style is richer from egg yolks….extra fattening). Usually I find their higher quality ice creams at my local Sprouts Grocery. The Pistachio flavor only has three or four ingredients in it. I usually find the unusual limited flavors of Van Leeuwen Ice Creams at my local Walmart freezer. I came across the limited edition malted milk shake with Idaho Potato French Fries at my local Walmart so I thought I’d give this one a try.
I open it up.
I don’t see much of anything but it is the perfect eating temperature.
The texture does differ from other Van Leeuwen Ice Creams I’ve tried….This one seems more whipped and airy. YUMMMMM the taste of the malted milk is very good……unitil I hit a small chunk of cold hard French Fry. But the creamy part really is very good……..Then you get a small piece of cold fry and it sucks……..It is weird……..The flavors and textures don’t work together….but for some odd reason I felt the need to try it……….This would be really amazing if they replaced the cold hard fries with lightly crushed malt balls…….WHY-THE-FORK didn’t they do that? ……..?????????
Well those were my FORKING Thoughts on Limited Edition Malted Milkshake and Idaho French Fries French Ice Cream.
I haven’t purchased a frozen dinner in maybe a few decades. I live close to several Gordon Ramsay Restaurants but I was curious about Chef Ramsay frozen fish and chips at my local Walmart so I thought I’d give it a try with the 4 cheese macaroni.
On the back of the fish and chips box it says that it contains two servings……….I thinking maybe 2 servings for a toddler….This is what I got. I guess it’s more like one serving with too many fries.
I do note that I don’t have an air fryer and an air fryer is the preferred method for preparing the fish and chips. My husband followed the directions for oven preparation.
I have to admit that the fish and flavor of fish nugguts are very good but the breading didn’t get crisp. The fish is very flaky and is very moist. The potatoes or “CHIPS” have a delicious fluffy interiors but their exteriors aren’t crisp.
WtFORK would Gordon Ramsay say?….I think he’d say something like, “My dead grandmum can make crispier fish and chips than that.”
Anyways-
Here’s the back of the box for the 4 cheese macaroni. The box says one serving. I prefer it as a side serving so this is two servings to me.
It says to microwave it.
It taste very good. It actually taste much better than from many restaurants but it didn’t come out right.
It’s all stuck together.
I wonder what would Gordon Ramsay say?…..I think he’d say something like, ” Well you are a DUMP F****ing Donkey for buying microwave frozen food.”
Also my half didn’t have any corn bread crumbs.
I doubt that I will ever buy anything premade frozen again.
Those were my FORKING Thoughts on Chef Ramsay Fish & Chips and Four Cheese Macaroni. and what I thought Gordon Ramsay might say.
I do note that YOUR FORKING THOUGHTS may indeed differ. (and you might have an air fryer and do a little better)
I noticed that there are several Bravo Top Chefs in Las Vegas Nevada. So far I’ve been to four of them but hope to get to rest eventually.
The first one I tried was The Black Sheep by Top Chef contestant Jamie Tran. It’s a modern Vietnamese Eatery that is simply amazing! If you try this restaurant then you can taste why chef Jamie Tran made it to the Bravo show Top Chef.
Everything was FORKING AMAZING but I will cut them all down to a couple so this isn’t too long.
hamachi crudo
This hamachi crudo maybe was the best I ever had anywhere.
Boneless crispy trout
The boneless crispy trout is unique, delicious, and easy to eat. It sure is a top fish dish in Vegas by a Top Chef! We were lucky and got to see the chef Jamie Tran hard at work in her restaurant.
The Black Sheep – 8680 W Warm Springs Rd Las Vegas NV – 702-954-3998
www.BlackSheepVegas.com
We made it to Soulbelly BBQ in the arts district downtown. This restaurant is by chef Bruce Kalman. It’s casual but sort of refined BBQ with live music at certain times.
Caesar Salad with BBQ Turkey
My salad might look average but it doesn’t taste average. The turkey is moist, developed with delicious flavors. When I tried the salad I discovered that it sort of is deconstructed…..I was missing flavors from the dressing and then “BANG” the missing flavors and MORE are in the FORKING AMAZING black pepper corn bread croutons. This was an unexpected joy to eat.
My husband tried a sandwich called “The Belly of Soul.” (brisket, pickled onions, crispy onions, cheese sauce, fried egg, spicy BBQ sauce)
I tried a tiny bite of the brisket and is was really great! My husband said that all the flavors went really well together and said that he’d like to eat this sandwich again!
Soulbelly BBQ – 1327 S. Main St Las Vegas NV – 702-483- 4404
www.SoulbellyBBQ.com
********UPDATE NOW CLOSED FOR BUSINESS*******138 Degrees Craft Chophouse, Killer Burgers, Bourbon, & Brunch is a chef crafted quality brunch, bar, and steakhouse by chef Matt Meyer with consulting chef and managing partner Alex Resnik (Bravo Top Chef). This is a place where they dry age their own meats and do their own smoking. They even culture their own sour cream.
We tried brunch shared the very best tacos (so far that I’ve tasted in Nevada. Smoked King Salmon Tacos. The fish was fish house quality, prepared to perfection, and these tacos were complex with flavors. The in-house made tortillas were also extra delicious. I also enjoyed an avocado toast.
My husband enjoyed a Salvadorian style pancake called a pupusa.
soft egg, brisket, cheese with fried bananas on the side. I was told that it was very good!
138 degrees Bar, Bourbon, Killer Burgers, Steakhouse – 1450 W Horizon Ridge PKWY Henderson NV – 702-272-0839 *****UPDATE NOW CLOSED FOR BUSINESS*****
www.138Restaurant.com
Ai Pono Cafe is expected to open November 20th 2023 at the soon-to-open Durango Resort in Las Vegas around 8 miles from the Strip. It’s a chef crafted Hawaiian Plate Lunch Type of restaurant by (Bravo Top Chef) chef Gene Villatra. This past June I we were lucky to try a “Pop Up” of Ai Pono Cafe at The Red Rock Casino. The (Bravo Top Chef) Gene Villatra was there hard at work too!
Everything was good. However I couldn’t try every dish that was on the menu but out what I tried the favorite was the sandwich called, Da Side Chick. It was a guava chile breaded chicken sandwich.
I remember that the sandwich was big and tasty. It also only cost slightly more than fast food. ($10.) and this tasty delicious sandwich was a whole bunch better than anything fast food.
I hope to try-
Retro By Voltaggio by Bravo Top Chefs Michael & Bryan Voltaggio
Limoncello Fresh Italian by Bravo Top Chef Carla Pellegrino****UPDATE Top chef Carla Pellegrino is no longer with this restaurant**********
Boom Bang Fine Foods & Cocktails by Bravo Top Chef Elia Aboumrad
STK Steakhouse (Cosmopolitan) Bravo Top Chef Stephen Hopcraft
That was a little taste of Bravo Top Chefs in Las Vegas NV.
Sadly I just found out that both varieties (classic and spicy) of Sir Kensington’s have been discontinued. I’m on my last bottle that happens to be spicy. I liked both flavors the classic and the spicy and used to switch between them. But no more…..not a bottle to be found on any shelf. But this ketchup is for sale on the black market…I mean Amazon.
I can buy it there for a little over $20. a bottle.
Now I will have to buy the less expensive most popular ketchup again that doesn’t taste as good.
Bah!
Oh well tomato is another day!
Goodbye Sir Kensington’s Ketchup and THANKS!!! for the condiments.
I came across these bags of Brad’s Vampire Killer Air Dried Crunchy Kale at my local Smith’s Grocery on a Woo Hoo Sale so I picked them up. I thought I remembered coming across them at Sprouts Grocery but never bought them until now. Under the name it reads Buck County…..WOW I know where that is! …..Anyways……They sound interesting. Maybe they are garlic-ee because of Vampire Killer in the name? Or maybe they are spicy?
The ingredient look mostly natural so I thought it might be worth a try.
WTFork are Koji Spores? Ummmm I had to look that one up…….It’s a fungus that might cause irritation…….
Well I bring this home anyway……
My husband greets me on my arrival and asked if I picked up any snacks. I pull this out and he tries it. He goes this is weird I don’t want anymore and leaves.
I try it……..It’s in tiny small pieces that are crisp…….It’s not very garlic-ee or spicy……..It doesn’t taste like anything I can compare it to………It’s crisp little bits that are citrusy, nutty, and sort of a raisin kind of taste. It’s not so great to eat plain but I think it would be best to sprinkle on a salad or maybe a vegetable dish or pasta.
Those were my FORKING Thoughts on Brad’s Vampire Killer Air Dried Crunchy Kale. Your FORKING Thoughts may indeed differ.
I found Calbe My Pote White Truffle Premium Potato Chips at my local Seafood City (A California-based Filipino Supermarket Chain) They caught my eye and the ingredients don’t look too bad so I thought I’d give this small bag a try.
Oh WoW! They are made with French Grey sea salt. That salt is very expensive….Ummmm don’t really know what the truffle flavor really is…..Usually artificial is called truffle essence…..maybe they are being tricky here? I’ll try them anyway.
I open the bag up and take a whiff.
I don’t get truffle but I do get a really strong but good potato smell that I don’t usually get when I open a bag of chips…….Like a smell I get when I make mashed potatoes.
I try a chip…They look a little different and seem to have a little bit of skin on them. They are also small, extra thin, and seem free of oil.
Now I taste one……….They do have more potato flavor than what you usually get in a potato chip that are laced with a little bit of truffle taste and are extra lightly salted. But they also seem extra dry. They are different.
Those were my FORKING Thoughts on Calbee My Pote White Truffle Premium Potato Chips I do note that your FORKING Thoughts may indeed differ.
Van Leeuwen makes very rich high and higher quality French Style Ice creams. Their regular and seasonal flavors are sold at Sprouts Grocery and their Limited Edition Flavors are sold at Walmart. I came across their Dulce De Leche Brownie Flavor at my local Sprouts so I thought I’d give it a try.
I open it up.
It looks like mostly vanilla with a little swirl.
I dig in and taste some…….It’s different than most Van Leeuwen Ice Cream. Instead of that rich ice cream feel in your mouth this one is sort of icy like ice milk…….(almost like Italian Ice)….. The icy texture is odd……I don’t know if it’s suppose to be this way or if I got something that was mishandled (allowed to melt and refreeze?). …… I get a little taste of the dulce de leche……It’s good but isn’t much. This flavor also runs extra sweet……..I love sweets more than most people but this is a bit too sweet for me.
I take another taste.
I hit some brownie that has very good with a deep chocolate taste but the texture is a paste and not a brownie…….It’s a brownie flavor fudge….I’m kinda disappointed because I wanted to bite into a real brownie.
I’m not really a fan of this flavor.
Those were my FORKING Thoughts on Van Leeuwen Dulce De Leche Brownie French Ice Cream. I do note that YOUR FORKING Thoughts may differ.
I haven’t had these Kettle Brand Truffle Oil & Sea Salt Chips in a while. I noticed that they were on sale and decided to pick up a bag since they were pretty good last time.
I didn’t notice that they changed the formula until I ate the first chip. They are noticeably MUCH CRUNCHIER….like shattering crisp……..almost too crisp…..
BUT THEY ALSO TASTE DIFFERENT!!!!!
The first few chips I tasted were like over seasoned granulated onion…..
Then the third chip was like LOTS of truffle essence and too much salt and other flavors for me.
I wonder if I got a defective bag of chips when the factory machine that squirts the flavoring went berserk?
Anyways-
I’m hoping that a supply of the original formula is around and shows up at the 99Cent or Dollar Store.
I’m not a fan of this new Bolder Crunchier Truffle Oil and Sea Salt Chips…BUT I MUST NOTE that YOUR FORKING Opinion may indeed differ.
