Monthly Archives: May 2015

Leo’s Island BBQ Peoria AZ is Worth a Fork!

Chicken and Rib Combo Leo’s Island BBQ Peoria AZ

Leo’s Island BBQ is one of the very few independent family owned restaurants in the Arrowhead Mall area in Peoria AZ. Leo’s Island BBQ is a Fast/casual restaurant where you order at the counter and seat yourself. Leo’s specializes in the Hawaiian Plate Lunch. It’s a forking big portion of meat or a combination of meats that sit on a pile of steamed fresh cabbage studded with some fresh/crisp broccoli, a double scoop of rice (white or brown) and a large scoop of Hawaiian Style creamy macaroni salad. They offer about 30 varieties of the Hawaiian Plate Lunch and also do offer appetizers, Soups, Salads, Mini Meals (that not so mini) Burgers, Hawaiian Bowls, Family Meal Deals and Catering. They offer lots of variety in a fast casual atmosphere and the food is hot and fresh 100% of the time. All the food is fresh made and not from a freezer and all the sauces and marinades are made in house. Portions are very large….I mean FORKING large so be prepared to bring some back home with you. This is also a very inexpensive restaurant to dine in. If I recall correctly the most expensive Lunch Plate goes for around $8.50. To me this is less expensive and MUCH BETTER than forking Fast Food since that lunch plate can be two meals and is far superior to any place in the mall food court. It’s real food that’s always prepared perfect and that’s always fresh and tasty and remember it’s casual and served in a styrofoam container. The owners are also very pleasant and make you feel welcomed every time.

Chicken and Kalua Pork Combo Leo’s Island BBQ Peoria AZ

The Kalua Pork is one of the specialties. It’s slow roasted with several different exotic leaves that make it Hawaiian Style and not like something you’d make at home. Good luck finding Ti, Banana and sea leaves if your going to try to re-create this at home.

Curry BBQ Chicken Mini Meal Leo’s Island BBQ Peoria AZ

One of my favorite meals to get at Leo’s are the Curry BBQ Chicken (dark meat) and Island Curry Chicken (white meat) . The chicken is always fresh and prepared juicy perfect. I Like the fresh made curry sauce as it has a lot of flavor and also is on the spicy side. The potatoes and carrots give it that homey taste and the (not so mini) mini meal is also packed with fresh steamed cabbage, broccoli and a scoop each of macaroni salad and rice. It only cost around $5.00 something.

Mahi Mahi Grilled Fish Leo’s Island BBQ Peoria AZ

One of my other favorite dishes from Leo’s is the Mahi Mahi Grilled Fish. Evey time I ordered it the fish is fresh tasting and flaky with a such a forking tasty light crust. I also get the lemon pepper chicken Hawaiian Plate. It’s set up the same as the above or below plate. I’m guessing that it’s at least 8 oz. of juicy white meat chicken simple with just lemon and pepper. Once I got the Mahi Fish Burger. It was so darn tasty I couldn’t stop eating it and I left really forking full.

Shrimp & BBQ Chicken Combo Leo’s Island BBQ Peoria AZ

They always fry the shrimp perfect at Leo’s and it looks cool in the circle shape.

Grilled Spam Moco Leo’s Island BBQ Peoria AZ

You can’t forking see what all is in the plate but Leo’s offers two kinds of Moco’s. The Island Loco Moco is a hamburger steak topped with gravy and two eggs. The Grilled Spam Moco is Grilled Spam topped with two eggs and gravy.

Leo’s offers a lot of variety, of always fresh hot and tasty food at budget prices. You might get so happy you ate here you just might do a hula.

The 14 yr old coming back from Leo’s. He enjoyed sitting on the patio with me and always enjoys sharing the Hawaiian Plate Lunches at Leo’s. This photo was taken this past weekend.

He said,” I’ve enjoyed the food from Leo’s for years now. Leo’s is worth a Fork!”

Worth a Fork!

#AintNothingLike A Good Old Sandwich with Head Cheese and Haggis Smeared with Vegamite

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If your on a computer you should be familiar with forking #hashtags.

Here are some fun food related #hashtags that I forking came up with. Feel free to forking add your own in the comment box if you care too. This is just forking silly fun if you aren’t feeling humorous right now get the fork out of here.

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#MakeATVShowTasty

The Fresh Blintz of Bel Air

Everyone Loves Raymond’s Tuna Salad

M*A*S*H*ed P*O*T*A*T*O*E*S

Bob Newhart Tartare

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#FoodieBandNames

Fleetwood McMac

Diana Ross and the Orange Supremes

The Rolling Scones

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Boy in the Bubble and Squeek

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Forrest Rump

Lard of the Onion Rings

Saving Private Reserve Cheese

Hot Dog Day Afternoon

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With a Little Kelp from my Friends

While my Za’atar gently steeps

Norwegian Food

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Money Can’t buy me Chubs

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No Country for Old Pancakes

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We’re Not Gonna Bake It

She Blinded me with an Appliance

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Crosby Stills and Mashed Potatoes

The Moody Blueberries

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I Give My Fart to You

WTFork Happened to Yogurt?…….. Yogurt Used to be a HEALTHY Food

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WTFork happened to yogurt? …….Yogurt used to a be a healthy food. Hippies would eat it with Grapenuts or fresh fruit. They also used to show TV documentaries and TV commercials with 100 year old+ Russian People all eating yogurt and it was suggested that yogurt was a contributing factor that was associated with longevity or old farts living way past 100 forking years old doing forking hard farm work and liking it all eating yogurt.

Yogurt is produced by the bacterial fermentation of milk.

People have been eating yogurt for at least 5,500 years.

Eating yogurt can help you absorb nutrients from other foods better.

I doubt you get the same healthy benefits when your yogurt is mixed with forking candy. I also doubt that candy taste good in yogurt. I forking like candy but would never eat candy in forking yogurt. For me they sure don’t forking pair well.

The Chobani Yogurts pictured up top featured yogurts with bowls of chocolates on top of them that were Hershey’s Pips & Whoppers Malt balls.

If I was a forking kid and got that in my forking lunch I’d toss the yogurt out into a forking sewer and just keep the forking chocolates.

But Chobani isn’t the only one that offers you forking candy with your yogurt.

YoCrunch offers SNICKERS and TWO kinds of forking TWIX!

WTFork!

M&Ms and Peanut M&Ms too!

WTFork!

Forking Oreos and Forking Jelly Beans Oh My!

That’s FORKED Up!

WTFork!

Yogurt used to be a healthy food.

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Pastrami Lovers Pastrami & Rye Individual Meat loaves Recipe

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Pastrami Lovers Pastrami and Rye Meatloaf as a sandwich with a Red Russian kind of dressing

This recipe makes 18 individual very flavorful moist pastrami and rye flavored meat loaves. I do forking note that I found on WORD HIPPO the correct way to spell and say the plural of Meat Loaf is Meat Loaves. Sounds forking weird but these meat loaves come out delicious and moist.

Set Oven to 350 degree and you will need slightly oiled baking sheets.

Ingredients

2 lbs. lean ground beef (I used 93%)

10 oz. Pastrami Chopped (I had a fatty chunk and trimmed off all the hard fat and had 10 oz. remaining)

2 beaten eggs

5 garlic cloves grated

7 oz. seeded fresh rye bread

3/4 in. ginger grated

1 Tablespoon coriander

1/4 teaspoon fennel seed

1/3 teaspoon white pepper

1/2 teaspoon black pepper

1 Tablespoon kosher salt

1/4 teaspoon allspice

pinch cloves

1 lb. silken tofu beaten

3 oz. crispy fried onions

1 teaspoon of liquid smoke

Some cooking oil or cooking spray to oil pans with

fresh ground sea salt

fresh ground black pepper

2 or so Tablespoons of caraway seeds to sprinkle tops of meat-loaves with.

Directions

Combine all the ingredients except oil, fresh ground sea salt, fresh ground black pepper and caraway seeds.

Measure each loaf into a 4 oz. oval shape. You should have 18 individual loaves.

In about 25 minutes your pastrami meat loaves will be done. They freeze and reheat well. For the Red Russian dressing kind of dressing i mixed up some tomato paste, dijon mustard, spicy relish, prepared horseradish, water, fresh ground sea salt and fresh ground pepper. Any sort of mustard sauce would also go well with them too. They’d go great with the pickled white beets with caraway seeds and also would go great with braised cabbage.

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My Forking Review on the Mincy by Rigamonti……… forget about the Pastabilities

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I found this forking cute gadget at Home Goods. It claims to have many uses. It’s suppose to grind meat, make sausage and pasta too. Beside being cute, machine washable, less than $20, and easy to put together it has a cool suction device that doesn’t actually suck as it secures the almost non-working machine to any surface.

I didn’t forking even try to grind meat because it really sucked SO FORKING MUCH at just making pasta. First I tried some spelt pasta and it took me about 50 cranks to put out this much pasta. I sure was forking cranky after this but thought a more traditional 50% semolina 50% flour mixture might do the trick to making some forking pasta.

So I gave forking rigatoni’s a try.

Same forking thing. About 50 FORKING CRANKS for FORKING 3 pieces of forking pasta.

I forking went back to Home Goods and returned this idiotic device because this forking gadget has ZERO Pastabilities in my forking kitchen.

Not Worth a FORK!

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Forking Easy Pickled White Beets with Caraway Recipe

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White Beets

If you like rye bread you’ll forking love pickled white beets with caraway seeds.

Many people roast beets and then marinate them to make pickled beets. I find that they are very easy to pickle when you simply roast them in about 1 part water, 1 part vinegar (I usually use apple cider vinegar or rice wine vinegar) 1 part sugar and about a tablespoon of salt. You want the liquid to go about half way up on the beets.

I started with around three pounds of beets. I just cut my beets in half. Place them in a pan. Top the beets with water, vinegar, sugar and salt and cover with foil. Let them roast at about 375 degrees until soft (about one hour). Keep liquid but pull the beets out to cool. When cool enough to handle the skins just slide off easily.

I slice the beets up and add back to the liquid and add thinly sliced sweet onion. They are better the next day but I got pickled beets already.

I usually like them plain but I do take out a small batch and sprinkle some caraway seeds on the beets to give them a different flavor.

Pickled White Beets with Caraway Seeds

Now I have pickled white beets with caraway seeds. I think even people who don’t like beets would like these. Pickled white beets with caraway seeds are uniquely delicious. If you like rye bread you’ll forking love pickled white beets with caraway seeds!

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The FORKING TRUTH that VITAMINS are Imports from China

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Most vitamins are forking imports from China.

90% of vitamin C comes from China according to the Seattle Times.

50% of aspirin, 35% Tylenol and the majority of vitamins A, B-12, and E also come from China according to democratic underground.com.

Many pet foods contain vitamin C according to Epoch Times and I directly found out from the IAMS Co that some of their vitamins and minerals might come from China. They also told me that the pet food industry is very competitive and they don’t reveal their sources. I also got a similar message from Purina.

This news is forking alarming to people who read the news or watch news TV because Chinese Food Safety Scandals make the headlines forking often.

According to the Epoch Times only a FORKING 2% of imported vitamins are inspected.

Many foods we consume are made with added vitamins.

Also alarming is that the areas in China where the vitamins are produced happen to be the most polluted areas in China and also the world.

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Red Bell Peppers even OLD are Forking Versatile and Delicious

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Red Bell Peppers even OLD ones are versatile. I always forking stock up on red bell peppers when they are for sale at a great price.

I cut some up, cook them up and freeze them and a roast up a bunch and freeze roasted red bell peppers. I find that when the pepper is old and wrinkled they roast up more even with the easiest to peel off skins and the pepper gets a better roast. It’s sort of the same reasoning on why the best fried chicken is the kind that sits uncovered in the refrigerator for maybe three days and the skin dries out.

After the peppers are roasted (actually broiled all around) The skins come right off and I use the roasted red peppers in a variety of ways.

Muhammara

Muhammara – basically a roasted red pepper dip traditionally made from roasted red peppers, walnuts, spices, pomegranate and thickened with bread. (I made mine with forking almonds and didn’t add the bread)

Roasted Red Pepper hot paste

Timbale

A layer in the Timbale

Hot Sauce

The backbone in red hot sauce.

Spaghetti Squash with Harissa Vinaigrette

Harissa – roasted peppers, tomatoes, lemon and spices

Romanesco Cauliflower with Romesco Sauce

Romesco sauce – roasted red peppers, garlic, almonds, hazelnuts and most people add bread.

With Dinner

Roasted red bell peppers are great with many dinners, a layer in a sandwich, and also stuffed with breakfast fillings.

Piri Piri Style Chicken

Piri Piri Style Chicken is marinated in a spicy pepper sauce.

Piri Piri Style Chicken with piri piri style sauce

Piri Piri is usually a spicy red pepper sauce with garlic herbs and citrus.

. Red Pesto

Red Pesto – Roasted red peppers, fresh basil, pine nuts, garlic, EVOO and Sardinian Cheese (Fiore Sardo).

A Red Pistou might be – Roasted red peppers, basil garlic EVOO

Red Bell Peppers even OLD ones are forking Versatile and Delicious!

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Investigations are Pending for Beneful Dog Food

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A lawsuit has been filed against the Purina Company with allegations that Beneful has possibly caused thousands of dogs to become ill or die. (according to PetfoodRecall.org)

Propylene glycol is the ingredient alleged to cause the illness. Propylene glcol is a preservative that is used in foods for human and pet consumption.

Investigations are pending.

According to PetFoodRecall.org They note 11 recalls by Purina.

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Monthly Archives: May 2015

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