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Same Meal did differ some at Elements 2nd time around but it was still Worth a Fork!

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This past June I enjoyed the most amazing lunch at the stunning Elements at Sanctuary in the Paradise Valley Part of Scottsdale Arizona. Well it’s fall now so it’s about time to try them again.

This is what it looks like when you enter.

Just past the hostess desk it looks like this.

Here’s one half of the dining room.

We got sat just past here and this was the scenic view of Paradise Valley from my seat.

Just like last time they started us out with locally made MJ Sourdough Bread with salt and sea weed sprinkled butter.

It’s the same bread but today it is hot and far more crisp than last time…….almost like a crouton.

The Tea Brined Chicken Thighs topped with Pickled Watermelon was so amazing last time I had to order them again. Here’s what I had last time.

It might not appear different but today’s Tea Brined Chicken differed some. I don’t like when I say something was a certain way and I go back and the food is different…….so I am writing about how it was this time. STILL VERY GOOD! …but different.

What differs the most is the taste of the sauce and the chicken. Last time the sauces were extremely delicious…..and were slightly more layered but ran on the sweet side or maybe there was another sauce I didn’t taste today…because under the rice last time was a flavor I didn’t get today. Today’s sauce was delicious and for sure wasn’t as sweet…….but this time did run a tad on the salty sidebar was still great…….The chicken looks about the same size but wasn’t. What differed about the chicken this time was that today the skin was almost removed from the thighs. it was just on by an edge and had their own crisp coating so what you see in the second photo are big pieces of crispy skin with a smaller amount of tender delicious juicy breaded chicken underneath. It was more like two treats in one today but the chicken was almost 1/2 crispy skin and 1/2 chicken this time.  It was like a Chicken Chicharron treat connected to the most scrumptious high end chicken nuggets …………well two were chicken nugget in size and one of the three on left side of the plate was a large one. They still  gave a good amount of chicken but different butchery, amount  and taste differed from last time. Either way it’s still a great plate but it differed. ********Please remember every Forking Thing ever written about any food item in any restaurant is subject to change.

Today my husband went with the Five Spice Duck Special.

The 5 Spice Duck was very similar to the special my husband had last time………Beef Tenderloin with 5 Spice and Hoisin. He said it was very good….so I reckon it was. I won’t eat duck……I know it’s not logical but….they are just too cute to eat….can’t do it.

This was the Beef Tenderloin with 5 Spice and Hoisin he had last time.

The dessert menu differed and we wound up sharing a Key Lime Pie.

It’s adorable with the edible flowers. It’s very unusual with a sesame crust that has a granola kind of chewy texture. The filling is smooth with  a perfect mouth feel. The mango coulis is excellent. There’s a little dab of coconut sorbet…………I like it all but…………….You know me if you read my reviews………I have to tell The Forking Truth……………maybe it’s just me and I am the only one in the universe that doesn’t like think crust (even if it’s very good tasting)….The crust is thicker than the filling.  It’s delicious crust…but it’s almost like a cookie that is topped with filling. For my taste this dessert was good but could have been excellent if the proportions differed.

Last time we shared a Lemon Meringue.

I think this was even better than the Key Lime. Every part of this dessert was that perfect lemon/tart to sweet ratio, even the meringue was perfect in taste ….I REALLY LOVED THE FLAVORS….. but it also had an enormous amount of unusually delicious crust.

It was a lovely meal out and even though it differed some and the dessert crust were too thick for my taste I would still say my visit to Elements was worth a fork! This is lovely destination with a stunning atmosphere, professional service and wonderful food you won’t find at other places.

Worth a Fork!

Every THING is subject to change and your experience may or may NOT differ.

www.SanctuaryCamelback.com/dining/Elements

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My Forking Thoughts on Lay’s Chile Con Queso Potato Chips

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The first Chile Con Queso I ever tasted was from Chi-Chi’s Mexican Restaurant. It was a creamy cheesy sauce made from a Mexican Style Cheese blend and was spiked with little pieces of tomatoes, chiles and scallions. The Queso was served with a bottomless basket of hot white corn tortilla chips. Chile Con Queso seemed very exotic a few decades back but these days it’s a common southwest Texmex kind of snack food that often is served with soft pretzels and beer. These days it’s common to whip up Queso  in your own kitchen when you want to snack while watching a football game. At home most Americans just microwave a brick of Velveeta (a processed cheese food product) with shredded jack cheese or cream cheese with a can of Rotel (chopped tomatoes and chiles).

Well lets see what I think!

I open the bag and take a whiff.

My bag looks only 1/3 filled.

WOW, it smells mostly like a dirty deep fryer……..(ick)…….laced with maybe a little cheese…..just like what Chi-Chi’s deep fryers were like!

The chips are on the smaller side and have a granular feel to them.

The chips are extra thin and are speckled with something.

I eat a couple chips. They feel extra fragile in the mouth.

The actual chip lacks a potato flavor.

The first thing I taste is something sour.

It’s like the sour in sour cream but more sour.

Then it turns a sort of buttermilk taste followed by a soft kick of chile peppery seasoning. The first couple have a sourness to them that is unpleasant.

I eat one chip slowly.

This chip taste better than the first two.

I don’t get that sourness as much and the spice seems to grow. It’s spicy but a mild spicy……not bad for Lay’s……It’s also a little onion-ee……a little….garlic-ee…..it’s kinda black pepper-ee. There are other warm pepper tastes and a little salty. Something here reminds me of margarine…..

The spice and mild heat does grow and covers up the milky sourness.

Too bad the cheese taste is very disappointing……..They didn’t get the cheese taste right.

Almost good…….

1/2 a Fork…

Not horrible….but not great either……….The spice blend is pretty good for Lay’s but the cheese taste is off.  Instead of a processed cheese taste it’s something more like buttermilk.

This tasting is subjective. The Forking Truth is that your experience and opinion may differ.

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My Forking Thoughts on trying two Vegan Impossible Burgers in Metro Phoenix Arizona

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Table Tent on table at The Cuff in Old Town Glendale AZ

I’ve been excited to try the vegan Impossible Burger. These days I’m very selective about any ground beef that I will eat and there are no ground beef worries with the Impossible Burger.  I found that The Cuff Restaurant in Old Town Glendale now offers many Vegan items now and one is the Impossible Burger. The Impossible burger gets it’s meat like quality from something they call heme that comes from soy roots. The heme is also suppose to make the vegan burger patty bleed. Heme is also a protein that most people on a vegan diet don’t get so this burger in moderation can be beneficial to people on vegan diets.

Other side of table tent from The Cuff in Old Town Glendale AZ

At The Cuff you have the choice to go completely vegan with vegan cheese. I went vegetarian with real cheese that was cheddar. The burger was what I was going for here.

Impossible Burger from the Cuff in Old Town Glendale AZ

My burger arrived open faced and was topped with a slice of cheddar and caramelized onions. On the top bun half was mixed greens, tomato and a particularly good pickle chip. I cut my burger in half hoping for vegetable blood like on the Table tent photo.

Table Tent

 

It’s a little dry and crumbly but does have a nice sear.

It crumbles more when I break some off for my husband to try.

I put it together to try the way it’s meant to be eaten.

It’s not bad…….It’s almost like meat but with something textural wise I’m missing and more crumbly. The pickle and ketchup cover up a lot of the Impossible burger’s taste. I get a weird butter-like after taste that I’m not found of but I’m not sure if that taste comes from the cooking process of the burger, cheese or the bun. I think it taste something like margarine…..or an imitation butter.

It seemed like my Impossible Burger might have been over cooked?????

Maybe the Impossible Burger is Impossible to cook correctly?……… I don’t know?….

As luck would have it I found another Impossible Burger at PNPK in North Scottsdale so I decided to give that one a try and see if it differed any……and I was also hoping for blood….VEGETABLE Blood that is….

This impossible burger is offered as a slider. Both Impossible Burgers came with Impossible Flags on them. You have your choice of many different toppings. I tried mine with Brie and Mushrooms.

I’m going in for a bite and ……in a Vampire Voice like in a classic Bela Lugosi ….”I’m hoping for Blood…Blah Blah Blah Vegetable blood!”…….

No blood here either but this one does have juice and isn’t crumbly like the last one. It does have a texture that might be confused for meat.  This one really does feel like meat in my mouth. It’s very close to meat.  I think if I was a vegetarian I might fear that I was eating meat and be grossed out. This one taste better and I’m not getting that imitation butter flavor that the last one had…..My husband refuses to try this one after trying the last one……. He said maybe you can find some Impossible Meat at the store and make it into something better…..

I’m thinking maybe the Impossible Taco, Burrito or Meatball is next?

Who Knows?

Those were my FORKING Thoughts on trying two Vegan Impossible Burgers in Metro Phoenix AZ.

Everything is SUBJECT TO CHANGE and your experience may or may NOT differ.

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Did you Forking know about The FREE Ikea Birthday Meal?

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I think everyone in the world is familiar with Ikea because they are the world’s largest manufacturer of furniture. Ikea is a Swedish based company with locations over most of the world that sells build it yourself furniture, kitchens and they also sell home goods.

If you join the Ikea Family they treat YOU on your Birthday to a complimentary Swedish Meatball Platter with Coffee or Tea and Dessert and that’s not all! They also give YOU $15.00 to spend in the store.

Here’s the meal.

The FREE Ikea Birthday Meal

Here’s the FREE Dessert.

You can FREE Coffee or Tea EVERY DAY!

With the $15.00 FREE Birthday money someone got this very unusual Sansevieria Plant and a roll of shelf liner.

Now you Forking know about the FREE Ikea Birthday Meal.

Everything is subject to change and your experience may or may not differ.

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One Ingredient Banana Frozen Confection Recipe is Really Forking Good!

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One Ingredient Frozen Banana Confection with added cinnamon and crushed chocolate chips

We all heard about one ingredient frozen Banana Ice Cream. Everybody says it’s very easy and delicious. I literally had a BUNCH of Bananas so I thought I’d give it a try. The Forking Truth is that it’s not as easy as everyone says. But honestly after I figured out how to blend it up the “fake Ice Cream” did indeed come out delicious.

Get a bunch of bananas….I hear that you want them ripe but firm. (P.S. you can sometimes get a HUMUNGOUS bunch of bananas just like this once in a while from the 99cent store)

Peel the bananas and cut them in slices and then freeze over night.

I used a tub….

after doing so I think a big ziplock bag would have been a little better because it wouldn’t have been a thick of a frozen brick.

“Wow I got a Rock”

I got a big rock of banana.

I have to let it sit till I can hack off banana slices and blend them with a stick blender…..a little at a time…….I seriously think this recipe will only work with a professional strength stick blender like what I have.

I keep going about a cup at a time till I’m done and the bananas need to firm up a little more in the freezer.

To my surprise the bananas are very sweet and this doesn’t even need a thing but I add a spoonful of cinnamon and swirl it through just for fun. This goes back in the freezer to firm up.

Four hours latter it’s a nice consistency….Firm but very creamy.

One Ingredient Frozen Banana Confection with added cinnamon and crushed chocolate chips

It creamy and almost like Ice Cream. It has a really great banana flavor. I thought a little bit of cinnamon in it would be good ( and it is). I also thought a little crushed milk chocolate would go well here too. Many other variations can be made….A natural peanut butter swirl would be yum!……..Banana/Cocoa……..Banana/Melon……… Banana with Butterscotch …..Banana Malt……Banana/Strawberry……..Banana/Walnut…..How about Banana with Coconut? ……Maybe Banana Rum Raisin….I think Banana, Mango and Lime would be great too.

I think this is a much healthier and maybe tastier alternative to Ice Cream. (well most supermarket ice cream)

This one Ingredient Banana Confection really is Forking Good!

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You can get served INEDIBLE Food From 4.5 Star Rated Restaurants on Yelp

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The FORKING Truth is that in 2018 three restaurants in Metro Phoenix AZ served me inedible food that rate 4.5 stars on Yelp. I’m not talking bad food……I’m talking INEDIBLE Food.  I didn’t mention the name of any of the restaurants. It is my hope that the restaurants have all improved after my visit. It is not in my interest to put any of these restaurants out of business ……after all….Every THING is subject to change and if they don’t or didn’t change their ways they will go under on their own…….. All of these restaurants opened this year 2018 in Metro Phoenix AZ.

The first inedible food experience of the year came from a BBQ Restaurant somewhere in Metro Phoenix.

Indedible un-cooked Grits… LOOK they are still watery and are like sand mixed with water. Unless you are blind you can clearly see that this dish is not fit to serve to people. The Forking Truth is that we let them know about the grits and nobody said they were sorry. No-one brought us a replacement and nobody took the raw grits off the bill. The person that checked on us didn’t care about what we showed her and just ran away. The brisket we tried was also about not ready to be served as it was very chewy like rubber with hard inedible fat that had to be peeled off. I keep wondering what kind of person would serve this to a paying customer?

The next one came from a Fried Fish Restaurant somewhere in Metro Phoenix in April.

The fish we received was freezer burnt and then coated in crunchy unseasoned corn meal and was fried. It was very strange to bite into something that was like crunchy and chewy dried out fish jerky. The rest of all the food we tried here all was incredibly awful too!….. beyond your imagination. Even the tarter sauce was watered down and old tasting.  The problems here might have been a result of a combination of failing restaurant equipment, re-heating foods up multiple times and very poor cooking skills. All the food after tasting went in the trash and we ate someplace else. It’s hard to believe but The Forking Truth is that this restaurant still has a 4.5 star rating on Yelp. (as of Sept. 2018)

This particular Mediterranean Restaurant also has a 4.5 star rating on Yelp. I thought the food would be very good but I found that the food really sucked the day I was there too.

All the food photographed well so you can’t tell how it taste.

Except for the pickle.

Would you eat this Forking pickle?

We threw out nearly all the food we purchased.

To make a long story as short as possible-

Falafels-Not Edible – Hard as rock garbanzos that seemed not to get cooked but got sort of burnt. The falafels were similar to a mouthful of rocks, pebbles and gritty mortar that was dry and sandy inside.

Baba Ghanoush – Not Edible – They must have dropped a whole large bottle of liquid smoke in it. This was so over-loaded with smoke flavoring I thought it was sour at first. It actually made  me scream in the restaurant when I tasted it because it was so shocking.

Pickle-Not Edible – like from an opened can from a year ago…..also very sour. (I wouldn’t try but my husband did…..he’s a very brave man…he said it’s very sour)

Steak Shawarma – Not Edible – Might have been good before it got dried out. Like chewing on a thick nautical rope.

This is not a 4.5 Star to me.

WhyyyyyyyWhyyyyyWhy…..Eating at those places was as painful as getting clubbed in the knees

Some people make better food than other people but what kind of people serve such inedible food? ………..To me it seems like only something a child would do and not a normal person…. All kinds of people work in restaurants. I think it boils down to two kinds of people put out inedible foods. There are some people that don’t have a care on what they serve and there are also the others that don’t know how to do things better………

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Three Restaurants that score a 4.5 star average on Yelp served me inedible food this year in 2018.

That’s FORKED UP!

A 4.5 STAR AVERAGE MIGHT NOT BE WORTH A FORK!

NOTE that EVERY THING is subject to change and your experience  may or MAY NOT differ……..

………and that’s The Forking Truth

******As a slight update The Mediterranean Restaurant contacted me. They claim that they don’t use smoke flavoring. They are sorry the falafels tasted burnt to me.******

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My Forking Thoughts on Kroger Nashville Style HOT CHICKEN Potato Chips

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We are all excited about Nashville Hot Chicken anything here so these Nashville Style HOT CHICKEN Potato chips sound mighty intriguing. I look at the bag and the ingredients. I believe these chips to be vegetarian. They are marked kosher and I don’t see any ingredient that seems like meat.

I open the bag and smell the chips.

They do have an unusual odor. Maybe something like a fryer filled with old grease and paprika.

Take a closer look at the chips.

Smaller sized chips. some are folded. Dusty on the surface. Very crisp and shattering hard.

I taste one…..Taste like spicy BBQ……with lots of paprika….with a little sweet but not too much.

These chips lack chicken flavor and have too much paprika…..I should taste mostly LOTS of cayenne, chicken and dill pickle.

Not a bad chip at all but doesn’t taste like Nashville Style Hot Chicken.

This is subjective and I note that your taste or opinion may differ.

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Remembering the Food from Joel Robuchon’s L’ATELIER

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The Chef of the Century Joel Robuchon has passed away. My favorite restaurant in Las Vegas was L’ATELIER by Joel Robuchon. It’s a casual exhibition restaurant that serves the most high end tapas plates you can ever imagine. Everything was so masterfully crafted. You have to expect the unexpected….everything is the most wonderful surprise….I don’t know if there is a future for his restaurants so I’m sharing my memories here today.

This is what it looks like inside. You sit at a bar with a view of the kitchen. Everything is black and red.

They always start you off with an Amuse Bouche.

They also give you the most amazing bread basket with French Butter.

Here are not all but many of the plates we had here.

Le Canard L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon MGM Las Vegas NV

Le Bar L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon MGM Las Vegas NV

L’Oeuf – L’Atelier MGM Las Vegas NV

L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon Las Vegas NV

The Famous Joel Robuchon Potatoes

L’Atelier MGM Las Vegas

L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon MGM las Vegas Hotel Casino

All this was from the most Stared Chef in the World!

L’ATELIER by Joel Robuchon

www.MGMResortsInternational.com

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A few places for Hot Chicken in Metro Phoenix AZ pre Mrs Chicken ********* with some updates

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Nashville Hot Chicken is only authentic in and is a specialty of Nashville Tennessee. Here in Phoenix you can find Nashville Style Chicken….and other Hot Chicken…….we should just call it Hot Chicken. The Chicken should be marinated, floured and fried. It needs to be sauced either before or after flouring (or breading) with what they call a dry sauce or paste. If a wet sauce is applied then IT IS NOT NASHVILLE STYLE CHICKEN according to the Nashville Hot Chicken Coalition. Nashville Hot Chicken IS HOT because the paste is suppose to be 1/3 fat (often lard) OR it can be OIL and 2/3rds cayenne pepper that gets cooked and reduced till thick.  A few other seasonings are sometimes added. Nashville Hot Chicken is not just about heat as it’s is also suppose to be about flavor. Authentic places serve the chicken with dill pickles over the chicken and one-two slices of white bread under the chicken to soak up juices and flavors.

Here’s the Hot Chicken Sandwich from 6 Degrees Urban Kitchen in Scottsdale.

This sandwich was stuffed with a plump juicy marinated notable crispy chicken breast that was topped with honey hot sauce. House made pickles were tucked inside and the sandwich was served on a grilled eggy bun. (*****UPDATE***Sadly 6 Degrees Urban Kitchen has CLOSED for business since)

The Hot Chicken Slider from PNPK in North Scottsdale.

This Hot Chicken Slider is seasoned fried chicken, topped with dill pickles, slaw and spicy aioli sauce. It’s tasty….not scorching hot but hot that might be mellowed by the slaw.

Hot Chicken from Starlite BBQ in Scottsdale.

Here was a plump juicy breast and leg quarter. Both were SCRUMPTIOUS flavored chicken in a crisp HOT but delicious crust. It was just delightful with house made pickles and this really tasty whole grain mustard.

From Famous 48 in Old Town Scottsdale.

By far the most stingingly HOT! I almost couldn’t eat this one. This one had some sort of Mayonnaise applied to the chicken. This one was topped with an insanely HOT but delicious Buffalo kind of sauce with a good TANG. It topped the crunchy chicken and they gave me extra hot sauce on the side. You had to open your mouth a mile deep to eat this one as the eggy bun was extra thick and was difficult to eat… (I do note that Famous 48 was recently opened when I tried them and it’s possible this sandwich has been toned down or tweaked since to please the masses…….Another note is that Famous 48 has closed for the summer 2018. (*****UPDATE****Famous 48 closed and happened to re-open in a different location in Scottsdale) I recently tried the Famous 48 Nashville Style Chicken at a festival and it’s a completely different sandwich. It will be pictured at the bottom after the fork.

I also tried the Hot Chicken Sandwich at Mingo’s Louisiana Kitchen in Phoenix. It’s a LOUISIANA Style Hot Chicken Sandwich and Not a Nashville Style…..But it’s Hot Chicken so this sandwich is included here.

Mingo’s Chicken is flavorful and very moist. The chicken coated in a seasoned  Corn meal and has a much better texture than than other corm meal coated foods I’ve tried. I know it’s the best cornmeal coating I’ve ever tried.  The sandwich has a generous application of Tangy Hot Sauce with a great bite.  There is some shredded lettuce, tomato, pickle chips and a slathering of remoulade that is a French style of Tarter Sauce that is more detailed and complex than any I remember trying before. Old Bay dusted Fries came with the sandwich as a side.

Tried the Hot Chicken Sandwich from The Larder + The Delta in Phoenix. This was one of the milder of the Hot Chickens but WOWEEE this chicken was just DIVINE….This was the BEST of the boneless chickens in flavor, texture and juiciness. It’s tough to say but this chicken really was among the best…It had a quality about it unlike the all the others…..It was a very large amazing thigh. The coating was different. It was thin but sort of shattering crisp and caramelized. I could taste cayenne, onion and other flavors in or on the coating. The chicken was topped with an apple slaw and B&B pickles that were thick and delicious and hot sauce aioli ……This one here was off the charts!

Maybe you are curious about GENUINE Nashville Hot Chicken.

There are only SIX Restaurants that are Certified in the Nashville Hot Chicken Coalition.

They are Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack, Bolton’s Spicy Chicken and Fish, Pepper Fire Hot Chicken, Hattie B’s Hot Chicken, 400 Degrees, and Deezie’s in Murfreesboro.

Here it is! Hattie B’s Famous Hot Chicken from Nashville Tennessee.

Somebody brought me back a piece of Hattie’s Hot Chicken to try. Here it is………..

I put in the oven for 15 minutes at 350 to heat up.

This one has a strong cayenne aroma. (the most aroma of all the hot chickens I tried)

I pick it up and it’s a bit greasy. It’s not crisp but I was told even fresh made it’s not particularly crisp but better than what I had.

I tried the one that sold as hot. First bite seems very HOT (stingingly)…..I taste mostly cayenne…..followed by onion. The Chicken is very moist and flavorful…..for some odd reason it doesn’t seem that HOT to me as the first bite did. It’s just flavorful moist chicken.

These were a few of the places for Hot Chicken in Metro Phoenix pre Mrs. Chicken (soon to come…Phoenix’s first Nashville Style Hot Chicken Restaurant) (****UPDATE***Mrs Chicken did indeed open since I wrote this)

******Slight update…since I wrote this back August 2018 Monroe’s Hot Chicken has opened in February 2019 in downtown Phoenix and became the First Hot Chicken Restaurant in Phoenix. I did happened to try a few items and wrote about them but I was there opening week and read somewhere that recipes were tweaked since so I can’t describe what you might taste there today. This week (last week of April Mrs Chicken did open. I expect to try it out sometime but didn’t yet)

EVERYTHING IS SUBJECT to change and your experience may or may not differ. 

Some more updates are below the FORK.

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www.Hot-Chicken.com

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Monroe’s Hot Chicken Sandwich

Another notable Hot Chicken Sandwich I tried since was the Carolina Style Hot Chicken Sandwiches from The Root and Soul in Phoenix.

The Root and Soul

I remember that this one was among the better Hot Sandwiches of what I tried. It was a mighty tasty delicious sandwich with very juicy flavorful chicken.

A new chicken restaurant opened up in Scottsdale called The Hot Chick. I enjoyed the HOT Chick sandwich very Forking Much!

This one had tons of spice flavor, a little sweet, very scrumptious and super crunchy and juicy. This new one is close to the best! I also liked that they offer Hot Chicken on the Bone….

Famous 48 Nashville Style Chicken that I tasted this time was plump, juicy and developed with flavors. It wasn’t as spicy as last time and was a different exterior texture.

The Focaccia Di Recco VS Pizza Rimini from Pomo Pizzeria in Scottsdale Arizona

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Pomo Pizzeria in Scottsdale AZ offers Northern Italy Style Extremely THIN DOUGH Focaccia Di Recco pictured below.

and also Pizza Rimini, also a Northern Italy specialty in four or more varieties (one extra special flavor on my visit).

The Parmigiana Pizza Rimini is pictured below.

Today I decided to ask a few questions about the pizza and focaccia…..Are they the same?

NO……

One is a focaccia and the other is a pizza.

They start out the same with the same dough……….

Both get stretched out paper thin but the focaccia gets stretched out EVEN THINNER because it’s sandwiches cheese. It’s stuffed. There is a top layer and a bottom layer.

The Pizza goes in the certified Italian Wood Oven at over 900 degrees F for a very short time.

The Focaccia goes in a regular oven in the kitchen at a much lower temperature for a much longer time.

The TASTE……YES the crust come out  tasting  VERY DIFFERENT!

The Focaccia almost taste like it was fried……I’m thinking that some of the oil from the Stracchino Cheese flavors both sides of the crust and the cheese is still all melty inside. It’s just really delicious! It’s so flavorful with almost cheese sauce inside the two tissue thin crusts.

You might feel different than me………..

I do think the Pizza Rimini is good…..i’d eat it anytime.

What I like about it is that is is so light…..It’s like pizza made for angels. It’s like the best diet pizza ever. You have the taste of pizza without the heaviness. You can eat half a pizza and feel like you can eat more no problem….It must be low in calories………….. The only thing I didn’t like about the Pizza Rimini was the outer ring of crust. To me it taste like burnt matzoh….. but I note the parts with cheese and sauce are yummy and don’t taste burnt.

While I enjoyed the Pizza Rimini…….it just isn’t as tasty as the Focaccia Di Recco….( TO ME!!!!!!! maybe not you?) That thing is just off the charts! It was just CRAZY YUMMY! Way more flavors that were more enjoyable to me. OH and I forgot to mention that you can add on local honey to embellish the Focaccia even a little more. A small amount of warm honey applied just adds another level to the Focaccia.

Both were good but for me (and my husband) we both preferred the Focaccia Di Recco.

www.PomoPizzeria.com

You know The Forking Truth is that EVERYTHING is subject to change and your experience may indeed DIFFER! Just remember that!

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