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?
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
The Bakery Collection of M&M’s Candy recently came out so I had to give them a try even though they ALL contain artificial flavoring.
Lemon Meringue Pie – I open the bag. they smell like lemon soda. When you eat them they have a strange texture and don’t feel like a M&M in your mouth. More of a candy coated cereal ball. They have a bright refreshing almost lemon taste and do taste a little bit white-chocolaty. Not terrible but have very little resemblance to an M&M.
Cherry Chocolate Cupcake – These smell like chocolate when you open the bag. They are the most successful flavor of the three. They do have an M&M’s chocolate taste embellished with a Cherry Soda type taste.
Peanut Butter Cinnamon Roll – YUK! Worst of the bunch. They smell like peanut butter. It’s like they made peanut butter M&M’s and instead of adding cinnamon they added a chemical that doesn’t taste like cinnamon and is bitter with a chemical taste.
Those were my FORKING Thoughts on the M&M’s Bakery Collection. I do note that YOUR Forking thoughts may indeed differ.
