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My FORKING Thoughts on Kettle Avocado Oil Kimchi Potato Chips

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I Thought Kettle Kimchi Potato Chips sound like an amazing flavor to try so I picked them up at my local Sprouts Grocery Store. I always look at the ingredients to decide if I want to give it a try.

By looking at the ingredients I can tell that it is a 50/50 chance of me liking them. Not always but MOST of the time I can’t tolerate citric acid and also have some trouble with dry vinegar….so?

I try them anyway.

First I open the bag and see lots of smaller chips.

I take a whiff.

Smells kinda funky with lots of mixed seasonings that can’t be identified.

I eat a small chip. It’s not sweet like a bbq can be but also is spicier with a burn in it to me.

Then I try to eat a chip more slowly…..

I get a different taste now…..MORE SOUR and MORE BITTER and sort of painful.

Back to just eating a chip normal.

Now I get a garlic taste that I didn’t get before but it is a sour garlic taste.

Multi-demential in taste but you need to be less sensitive than me to enjoy it.

Those were my FORKING thoughts on Spicy Kimchi Kettle Chips. Your Forking thoughts on these Kettle Chips may differ.

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My FORKING Thoughts on Reese’s Peanut Butter Ice Cream – Disappointing

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A few weeks back Reese’s Ice Cream and Bryer’s 1/2 gallon tubs were on sale for $1.99 each so we picked up two different flavors f ice cream. My pick was the Reese’s Peanut Butter with Reese’s Cups.

See it says with chunks of Reese’s Peanut Butter cups and peanut butter swirl.

Look I was expecting this.

See the chunks

Instead I got this

It took me a few weeks of eating it to find ONE FORKING CHUNK.

I did find some swirls but they lacked a peanut butter taste and were more like sweet like caramel. (ick)

This is something that I would never buy again.

My FORKING thoughts –

DISSAPOINTING

I do note that your FORKING Thought may differ and you might like it this way?

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Foods that YOU can make too

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These are foods that you can make too. Most of the recipes can be found here on www.TheFORKINGTruth.com

Up above are Corned Beef and Cabbage Hand Pies. For this one I just bought already brined corned beef briskets and added some spices, onion, garlic, carrots. I cooked the cabbage in the liquid from the finished corned beefs and just stuck some in those hand pies that I make every so often.

Potato and Cheese Stuffed mini bell peppers (no recipe)

Falafel flavored meatballs (but wrapped with egg roll wrapper) embellished with hummus

Apple hand pies

Pizza-tashen

My famous chipotle rice cheese stuffed peppers with potato string crust

Mac-n-cheese stuffed potatoes (no recipe just bake potatoes, hallow them out, salt & pepper, stuff with macaroni and cheese…I always wing macaroni and cheese and make it different all the time depending on what cheeses I have but always try to make it with lots of American and cheddar cheese.

Crepes – mixed fruit – some with sweet cheese and others with chocolate cream

Spinach Mozzarella and Feta Crepes (sorry forgot twice to photo before wrap and after wrap)

Potato Knishes

Homemade crackers (crisp breads shaped different) with homemade hummus

Served the above with deviled eggs.

Made Challah Rolls

These are just some of the foods that YOU can make too!

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The FORKING Truth is that Many Las Vegas Restaurants Open Later than Posted Hours

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This has happened several times previously but it just so happens that in the last three weeks I experienced three restaurants opening late and a fourth restaurant not open after a day after a grand opening.

Anyways

We were going to Pizza Nation. They were suppose to open at 12:00 on Sundays. We arrived just after 12:00 and saw chairs up on tables, nobody inside, and locked doors. We left and went someplace else.

The very next week tried to go to Hummus Vegas. They still (as of me typing this) have hours posted of 11:00 – 7pm Sunday – Thursday

SEE SIX LINES DOWN

We arrived a little after 11:00 and someone in there tells up that they don’t open till 12:00 s we left and went someplace else.

The following week.

Wanted to go back to Taste of Gujarat. The OPEN sign was on but the doors were locked. We knocked. My husband called. Nobody answered. They opened an hour latter.

Across from Taste of Gujarat was Grill Nine. I heard many great things about this restaurant so I thought it was a convenient second choice.

It was suppose to open April 1st. We were here April 2nd and it’s still not open.

The FORKING Truth is that many Las Vegas Restaurants open later than posted.

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A Peak of Wicked Donuts – Las Vegas NV

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Wicked Donuts is a Doughnut Restaurant located in the Sun City Part of Summerlin in Las Vegas Nevada. They offer your usual doughnuts.

And doughnuts that are different.

The atmosphere is also a mix of the usual doughnut shop and something different.

My husband tried a triple chocolate doughnut.

It was very chocolatey cake-ee doughnut.

I tried the Blue Suede Banana Doughnut (with peanut butter banana filling)

For my liking this is too large of a doughnut so I cut it in half. The other half I ate the nest day.

The doughnut seems freshly made and has a nice chocolatey topping that was adorned by a banana chip. Inside the doughnut is a creamy banana + peanut butter custard. For me the flavors work well together.

That was a peak at Wicked Donuts

Wicked Donuts

9490 W Lake Mead Blvd Las Vegas NV

www.WickedDonuts.com

Every THING is subject to change.

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Saving at the Supermarket Is FORKED UP

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In the old days you only needed your shoppers card to save more money at your local supermarket. Now they came up with so many things it makes saving extra money a pain in the you know where.

This week I see –

OK – My FORKING shoppers card doesn’t help me here. I have to clip or click.

Here I have to FORKING order ON-LINE to save extra money

HERE I FORKING can only come in for three days for these savings.

HERE I have to STRAIN MY EYES and look threw a THOUSAND postage stamp sized images of food and products and CLICK for my FORKING savings.

HERE I FORKING NEED A FORKING PAYPAL ACCOUNT TO SAVE THREE FORKING DOLLARS.

Saving at the FORKING Supermarket is FORKED UP These Days!

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My Trip to Featherblade Craft Butcher North – Las Vegas NV

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Featherblade Craft Butcher recently opened in Centennial Hills. I’ve heard good things about their Summerlin location so when this butcher shop opened closer to me I thought I had to give it a try. It looks like your typical Butcher Shop inside. Different cuts and types of meat to pick from. They also sell various seasoning blends, snacks, soaps, frozen meats, and a bit more.

Decided on two filet mignons for dinner.

We’ll see how it goes. My husband cooked the filet.

It lookalike it was cooked nice. To be honest it doesn’t have much beef flavor. My husband said, “That’s because it is a Filet Mignon and they never have much flavor” – so ? Guess we will have to try something different next time.

That was my trip to Featherblade North.

Featherblade North

7575 Norman Rockwell Lane Las Vegas NV

702-277-9633

www.FeatherbladeUSA.com

Every THING is subject to change.

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My FORKING Thoughts on Maeve Peanut-Butter Banana Chocolate Truffle Bars

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My local Sprouts Grocery had a variety of chocolates on clearance a few weeks back and this bar was 7 or $8. dollars off so I thought I’d give it a try. It’s by a company called MAEVE and it has a long name on the front that reads Valentine’s Romance Classic – The Peanut-Butter Banana Affair. Then under that it reads Peanut Butter and Banana Dark and White Chocolate Truffle Bar –

Whatever-

I open it up.

I break off a section to try.

There’s a LOT of cream in the center………(bah)

Here we go.

WOW the dark chocolate really is very good. Not too bitter. Not too sweet with lots of GOOD chocolate flavor. It also melts in the mouth just right.

I’m not crazy about the filling.

I can taste peanut butter and bananas but it’s not a satisfying amount of either flavor and the chocolate overs powers those flavors. There are also same crunchy objects inside that are odd.

Maybe a different variety of this bar is very good but I’m not paying the Sprouts regular price for these bars.

Those were my FORKING Thoughts on MAEVE Peanut Butter Banana Affair Bars. Your Forking thoughts may differ.

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Foods that YOU can make too

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These are Foods that YOU can make too. Most of the recipes can be found here on www.TheFORKINGTruth.com

up above are –

Non traditional tacos made with ground turkey and pico de gallo. Some have lightly pickled avocado on them and the others have home made Boursin type cheese on them.

Also home made crackers with sesame, poppy seeds, and sea salt that are topped with a swirl of cheese ball. (Cracker recipe is shaped different and called crisp bread under recipes)

WOW! Did these vegetable egg rolls go fast!

I did get compliments on the pickled beets with cinnamon spiced goat cheese too.

Here’s the recipe for the Thai Style Peanut sauce I served with the egg rolls. I also served spicy Chinese Mustard too.

Mac-N-Cheese stuffed potatoes

Tasty Cheesy Rice Balls (these were so good people were packing them up to bring home)

Mac-N-Cheese stuffed potatoes (people always love them)

Home made cracker with taleggio cheese and pistachio pesto

Fried Potato and Cheese Pierogi

Tacos made with ground turkey all are topped with pico and 1/2 have pickled avocado and the other half have a swirl of home made Boursin type cheese (always a hit)

Potato and Cheese Pierogi

Falafel Spiced Turkey Meatballs with Hummus

Nacho Potatoes (no recipe combo of my homemade salsa and a variety of cheeses)

Maple Bourbon Walnut topped spice Custard Filled Squash

People love these non-traditional tacos

Taco weenies (made with ground turkey) and potato and cheese tacos

These are just some of the FOOD that YOU can make too!

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My Trip to the Newly Opened Marketon Supermarket – Las Vegas NV

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A Brand New Marketon Supermarket recently opened at 5831 W Craig Rd in Vegas. They offer your usual grocery store items and also Latino specialties that are hard to find.

Below is a bit of what I saw there. I saw lots of lard there.

I saw some things that I never have seen before.

I also saw these hard to find special peppers here fresh and not dried.

I saw different snacks here.

I thought produce was very expensive here. A smaller sized cauliflower was $5.99 today. Five pound bags of flour were also very expensive and were $8.00 today. But they also had specials to counter some of the higher prices like large grinders of pink sea salt for $1.99.

That was a peek of the new Marketon.

5831 W Craig Road Las Vegas NV

702-570-2070

www.Marketon.com

Every THING is subject to change.

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