Live a little and Forking try a new pepper!

There’s a whole world of different peppers out there and they all taste different.

I decided to try the peppers in my cabinet and will try to describe how they taste.

To taste the spices I used a mild slice of cheese and hoped the flavor of the pepper would get absorbed into the cheese.

I’ll start at about 7:00 on the plate and work my way clockwise till I get in the middle of the plate.

Nora Pepper-Earthy and fruity with a little heat- more smokey/earthy than Aleppo Pepper. Nora Pepper is a staple in Spanish Cooking.

Aleppo Pepper- More sweet and fruity than the Nora Pepper. Slight earthy-smoke flavor with Medium heat.

Malabar Pepper- A familiar all purpose pepper black pepper but very flat one note tasting after tasting Tellicherry Pepper.

Tellicherry Pepper- Sweet smooth black pepper taste that doesn’t burn mouth like the Malabar.  Leaves a hot finish.

Piment D’ Espelette – Unique- Like super really good but better spicy paprika. Fruity, medium spice and more.

Cayenne – Smokey, earthy, hot, slight bitterness.

Shredded Red Pepper – Fruity with mild heat. Almost herbal taste.

Szechuan Pepper – (not a true pepper) Mix of lemon, ginger and tea leaves. Not hot but mouth numbing. To be used with hot peppers so you can enjoy them more.

White Pepper – Taste nothing like black pepper although white peppercorns are just ripe black peppercorns.  To me white pepper has a dusty potato skin taste. Kind of hot. I like to use some white pepper for potato dishes, risotto and gnocchi.

Live a little and Forking try a New Pepper.

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The Carrot Cake Hershey Kisses are only sold at Walmart stores. I thought this seemed like an interesting flavor of candy as it’s something that I think was never done before.

I found that when you chomp them down you get way more of the sweetness.  This candy runs on the sweet side for candy. I think the candy kind of taste best this way when you just eat it. However you can experience much more complexity if you let the candy melt in your mouth.

To me this candy kind of  taste like you scraped out a spoonful of carrot cake frosting with some of the cake in your frosting followed with a chemical aftertaste when you just eat them.

When you let it just melt in your mouth there is more of a show and the flavors that come to you in layers.

I was hoping to start with a hint of buttery carrot taste that I didn’t get. Instead I just got sweetness that tasted like lower quality white coating of some sort. Then an unpleasant  gritty texture came to my mouth. Suddenly a taste came that was something that reminded me of my childhood…..forking Play Doh-

(a child’s modeling clay) No I never ate Play Doh but I still remember the scent of white Play Doh and that’s what I got in my mouth. Soon the taste changes again and I could taste something that tasted like cream cheese frosting and next came an almost realistic kind of tang like from cream cheese.  Some spices followed that seem a little gingery and lastly I get a bang of a possible raisin or raisin like flavor. Sadly the finish leaves my mouth with that darn chemical aftertaste.

Almost  good!

Rated 1/2 a Fork because it’s a mix of good and not so good

To each his own. This is only my forking opinion and your forking opinion may differ.

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There is a whole world of salt out there. Why the FORK would you even think of using harsh, metallic, heavily processed table salt when you can use natural mineral rich salt that taste better and actually taste less salty. When you use table salt your food doesn’t taste as good. Better tasting salt helps your food to taste better.

The work horse of the kitchen is kosher salt. It’s less harsh and better tasting than table salt. it works wonders with meat.

The Grey Sea Salt has the most taste. Not sure how to describe it and it’s a sort of briny taste but it doesn’t seem like too much salt. Maybe it’s a balance thing?

The Pink Himalayan salt is suppose to be among the healthier salts with more minerals than most other salts. To me this one taste like kosher salt but that might be because of the grind I have. Maybe it’s normally smoother than what I have.

I like the Australian peach colored flake salt. It’s mild and delicate with an interesting texture. You don’t cook with this salt as it is a finishing salt.

Mediterranean Sea Salt is better tasting than regular kosher salt. Less salty, smoother.

The Salt in the middle of the plate is Red Sea Salt. One web site claims that this salt is number one for mineral content. There is something smooth and delicious about it. It’s almost sweet. I’d sprinkle on desserts. It taste like it would go really well with dessert if you want a little smooth salty crunch.

Lastly the most interesting of the salts is the Blue Persian Salt. It was hard to photo but here is a close up.

Here is another Photo.

It looks like blue in the salt but I read that it is an optical illusion. It’s the only salt I ever tasted that has a cooling sweet finish. It’s also far more expensive than all the other salts. I purchased a small amount just to try it out. It cost about $5.00 for about 3 ounces. I’m thinking this might be very good to rim an alcoholic drink with because of the unique complexity and smoothness.

You opinion may differ from mine but that is the Forking Truth From Me.

Your Food will taste Forking Better if you just get rid of your Forking Table Salt because there is a whole world of salt out there and ALL OF THEM ARE FORKING better than table salt.

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Strawberry Shortcake M&M’s are special edition M&M’s that are only sold at Target Stores. These M&M’s have a white filling that is suppose to taste like strawberry shortcake. The M&M candy shells are colors of pink, cream and white. The Bag of strawberry shortcake M&M’s comes in is a pastel pink color and features the Green M&M on the bag holding a tasty looking strawberry shortcake on a plate.

I thought I might like these M&M’s for two reasons.

One- I like strawberry shortcake and…….

Two – last month Walmart sold some sort of special edition chocolate covered strawberry flavor M&M’s that were good and seemed natural tasting.

The FORKING Truth is that these Strawberry Shortcake M&M’s to me taste exactly like strawberry artificial drink mix that is blended with vegetable shortening and covered with that sugar shell.

These M&M’s to me seem like a FORKING GLOB of vegetable fat that’s chemically flavored with something that reminds me of strawberry. After trying to let the candy melt in my mouth it now feels all greased up like I was forking sucking on vegetable shortening. These M&M’s don’t melt in the mouth….

The strawberry shortcake M&M’s are among my least favorite M&m’s that I have  ever tried. The flavor for me is too artificial and the greasy non-melting texture I find stomach turning. I’ve tried other flavors of white chocolate M&M’s before that didn’t seem greasy to me so the greasiness of the strawberry shortcake flavor was very unexpected.

Your opinion may differ from mine but to me these strawberry shortcake M&M’s are forking gross and this bag of M&M’s is now in the trash.

NOT Worth a FORK!

My mouth is still forking greasy.

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I came across the Microplane Spiral Cutter at HomeGoods for about $10.00. It sells on line for about $15.00 and it’s an interesting color of green. It’s small and doesn’t take up much room if you want to keep it to give to someone you don’t like.

I thought Microplane was a trustworthy brand so I took a chance on this one because the Paderno and KitchenAid Spiral Cutters BOTH don’t spiral cut carrots.

It promises to make spiral cuts and ribbons and shows attractive carrot ribbons on the box.

This is all you forking get when you insert a carrot and do a few inches of twisting.

The FORKING TRUTH is that you get little uneven broken shreds that aren’t ribbons and a big waste of carrot that looks like a tiny skinny forking penis-

that leaves you unsatisfied and longing for more.

Not only will the Microplane Spiral Cutter put a cramp in your style it will also put a forking cramp in your hand. It doesn’t fit well in your hand and your hand quickly gets a cramp.

The Microplane Spiral Cutter is hard to clean.

Little pieces of carrot doesn’t come out of the sharp blades and it stains easily and looks like a dirty toilet bowl after only a few twists of use. This photo was taken after scrubbing. Even after a ride in the dishwasher it looks the same.

“Looks like a Forking Stained Toilet Bowl”

This small hand held tool is money down the toilet if you keep it.

Like I said…….

NOT WORTH A FORK!

Back to HomeGoods and I’m getting my $10.00 back even if I can’t get the all the forking carrot or the carrot stain out.

The Forking Truth is that the Microplane Spiral Cutter does NOT make carrot ribbons as promised so for me The Microplane Spiral Cutter is NOT WORTH A FORK!

NOT Worth a FORK!

The Microplane Spiral Cutter Doesn’t Make the Cut!

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I was browsing a certain review site and noticed THREE reviews already posted for a restaurant that isn’t due to open till May 2016.

THE FORKING TRUTH is that this is dishonest and unethical. Anybody past the age of 7 should know you can’t review a place you haven’t stepped into.

The Restaurant isn’t even open yet.

That is a WTFORK!

Now that is FORKED up!

I do understand that this restaurant has other locations and some people might feel like they already know the place. I also note it is possible these reviewers might have been to another one of the restaurant’s other locations………But this is still a WTFork! BECAUSE THEY HAVEN’T FORKING been in this restaurant yet.

Nobody wants to read a review when the reviewer hasn’t even forking set their forking mouth and teeth in the restaurant yet.

Doesn’t anyone manage this site?

I let this review’s site’s local and head office know about this and sent them both a “Tweet” because I’ve found that sending them questions threw their site is useless and nobody ever  replies.

The least I would expect was a reply that they aren’t perfect and stride for perfection or some kind of rubbish like that. Instead nothing from them.

The Forking Truth is that they don’t have the

MEATBALLS to reply to me.

Over the past several months I called this review site on a couple other things I noticed.

I noticed the review of the day was for a restaurant that was temporarily closed for business. I thought that review was very unhelpful for me and a review of a restaurant that was open for business would be a better choice. Again no reply.

Recently I also noticed  that an individual reviewer posted 46 reviews on one day on this particular review site. Any person with a working brain knows nobody goes to that many restaurants in a day, week or month. There is no credibility here when I see someone do something like this. Doesn’t this site have any rules. I contacted this site about what I noticed and asked how many reviews a day can someone post. Just like all the other times nobody replied to me.

Again no forking meatballs.

Tweets, contacting threw customer service and also contacting via talk don’t do a wee bit of good. Here is the FORKING TRUTH of what happened when I contacted them threw the talk page for a problem I had with their restaurant reservation service. This is the forking response I got.

It makes me think this site must be ran by forking drunk monkeys.

Well here is to all the no replies and the one worthless reply . It’s the Raspberry you are getting the FORKING Raspberry!

And That’s The Forking Truth

UPDATE! The review site removed the three reviews for the unopened restaurant. 2-8-16 after letting them know four days back.

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Forking Filthy Salt and Pepper Shakers.

Forking Filthy Silverware.

Forking Chipped Glassware and or Plates.

Slopped up filthy bowls.

Dirty Floors.

Receiving brand new filthy napkins

Food that isn’t right…The above tarts were hard like rocks and our forking forks couldn’t penetrate them.

More food that isn’t right. Sent back food and received Recycled Food back. (Cook put orange American Cheese on the burger, scraped if off and slapped on the white cheese among other problems)

Even more forking food that isn’t right. Fondants that are FORKING icing fondant

Instead of Molten Lava Cakes like they should be.

and something completely different that really annoys me……

The Forking Weekend Brunch. Not all but it seems like MOST really nice restaurants in the metro area just offers a weekend BRUNCH.

Sometimes restaurants do less business for weekend lunch and must run with less staff to be open. Less staff and fewer menu items help with food cost but that isn’t appealing to everyone.

I REALLY forking hate brunch. I usually can’t eat out during the week and I’m not going to drive across town on the weekend to eat eggs, french toast, pancakes or forking oatmeal.

I want to have something nice like a fancy entree salad. Maybe a house roasted or house smoked meat sandwich on quality bread with maybe some sort of fancy farmers market side dish. I want something nice, something that inspires me and something that is worth driving across town for…

Usually going out to eat is special and enjoyable.

However filthy Salt and pepper shakers, Chipped glassware or plates, dirty anything that I have to use, dirty floors, food that isn’t right and Weekend Brunch are some of the Things I FORKING HATE that some Restaurants offer.

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