Monthly Archives: June 2014

Too many Grapes? just pickle them

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I had some Mulling Spice and some Grapes that were going past their time so I thought I’d pickle them seasoned with Mulling Spices. Mulling Spice sort of has the aroma of Christmas.

Normal Mulling Spices are Orange, Ginger, Cinnamon, Black Pepper, Allspice, Star Anise, and Cloves.

Foe some reason I had an old pack of this seasoning sitting around. I no longer purchase any spice blends because they almost forking always suck.

I cooked maybe 1/3 sugar against 2/3rds vinegar with my already packaged Mull seasoning and the grapes. I drained the mulling spices out.

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They came out tasting good and not too sweet, almost apple pie like. I think they will go well with a light creamy cheese or an almost not sweet whipped cream. They also keep well too!

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It’s easy to pickle your grapes if you accidentally  purchased too many.

Forking Truth

Forking Truth

What the FORK!

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Has this ever happened to you? I was waiting for my meal to be served to me at a restaurant and didn’t unroll my silverware until my meal arrived. If I simply unrolled my forking silverware I would have known how forking  filthy the restaurant really was and would have left. Two of the four silverware rolls were very filthy. I used my glass of water to soak and clean the fork I used as best as I could. I couldn’t help but think if the silverware was filthy then the plates must be forking filthy and the pots and pans might even be worse.

Traditional Pastie from Draft House Peoria AZ

Traditional Pastie from Draft House Peoria AZ

I receive  my meal already knowing it was a forking leftover from at least yesterday because the waitress told us only certain pasties were available since the baker wasn’t in yet to forking bake new ones. I received a very dry meat pie with very dry beef in it. I think it might have been good when it was new and fresh but in the condition I had it wasn’t so forking good. I did tell the waitress and she said she was sorry but ignored the filthy silver in the front of the table.

Usually leftovers taste pretty good and sometimes even better the second time around but this meat pie seemed really forking leftover. I don’t know how leftover it was.

I ate what I felt like eating and went to use the forking ladies room.

Saturday at lunch time

Saturday at lunch time

The ladies room wasn’t forking cleaned from the night before and stunk like forking sewage. WTF!

Not Worth a Fork

Not Worth a Fork

If I took the time to check my fork I would have avoided all the forking crap.

Forking Truth

Forking Truth

Two Sisters Thai Food in Phoenix AZ (Now Closed for Business)

Fresh Rolls

Fresh Rolls

As an update Sadly this Business has closed.

As we entered Two Sisters Thai Food restaurant we noticed a few Grade “A” Maricopa Health inspections posted by the door. The restaurant looked a little forking quirky to me with an open kitchen in the middle of the dining room but had nice looking stone top tables.

We decided to start with what they called fresh rolls.  They were very light and filled with fresh crispy vegetables. They came with a better than average peanut dipping sauce.

I ordered the Esan Gang Gai.

Esan Gang Gai

Esan Gang Gai

The dish was a clear curry made with not regular Thai Basil but made with Lao Basil and Fresh Dill. I think the green vegetable in this dish might be called Pat Krana. The vegetable was like spinach but with a thin almost like celery stem. This dish smelled very aromatic and tasted like nothing Thai I ever forking had before. I asked my waitress about the ingredients but she said she didn’t know how to translate in English. She did say that this is a dish they eat in Thailand. The Esan Gang Gai is an North Eastern Thai Dish. North Eastern Thai dishes differ from Central Thailand foods and usually don’t have Coconut Milk in them. Central Thailand Dishes are the ones with lots of peanuts and coconut milk.

My husband tried the Pad Kee Mow.

Pad Kee Mow

Pad Kee Mow

It’s basically a Drunken Rice Noodle Dish a Chinese inspired dish but made by popular by North Eastern Thai People in the Lao Area. It was spicy and flavorful. Not sweet or saucy like you get at other places.

The food from Two Sisters Thai Food in Phoenix Arizona tasted like taking a Trip to Thailand.

Forking Truth

Forking Truth

Not rated since it’s destination Dining.