Every once in a while a new M&M’s Flavor other than the classics of Plain and Peanut is OK or Very Good. I would rate the Strawberry Milk Chocolate M&M’s OK. This is the first OK New flavor in a long forking time for me.

Once you open the Strawberry Milk Chocolate M&M’s bag you get the aroma of real chocolate and strawberries.

I thought they might be pink inside but the M&M’s just look like regular Plain M&M’s inside.

They kind of remind me of strawberry flavored milk I drank when I was a child…but with chocolate.

These M&M’s actually taste like chocolate and sort of like strawberries without a weird aftertaste that I normally get when I try a new variety of M&M’s. That’s the BIG difference between this new flavor and lots of the other limited edition flavors I tried. No weird after taste here.

Strawberry Milk Chocolate M&M’s are not Forking Bad and are “Worth a Fork.”

 

There is a lot of hype for Patti La Belle’s Sweet Potato Pies that are sold at Walmart for $3.48. How good can a $3.48 pie taste? In fact this pie is so popular that instead of being a seasonal offer it’s being offered all year long and other Patty La Belle desserts will be offered too. So sometime last month I decided to give the Patti La Belle Sweet potato pie a try.

I don’t eat sweet potato pies very often but have tried them out at restaurants. I also don’t eat pumpkin pies very often either at the most only two slices a year at holiday time.  I am comparing this store purchased Sweet Potato Pie to store purchased pumpkin pies that I try at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

The pie is a little hard to get out if the box. You’d never expect some sort of high quality glue holding the box together from Walmart. I almost couldn’t get the forking pie out of the box.

Part of the crust is crimped and some of the crust is just smooth on the ends. It says on the box for a fresh baked taste to heat the pie up at 300 degrees F for 10-20 minutes so I give it a try that way.

I taste it warmed up.

I think the most different thing about the pie is the texture of the sweet potato filling. It’s not as custardy something like a boxed Mrs Smith’s Pumpkin Pie or a Costco boxed pumpkin pie. The filling is softer and lighter. The crust is flaky and taste sort of floury. The main flavor in the filling taste like maybe fresh grated nutmeg and then you get one other spice in the background like possibly cinnamon. You don’t get that warm clove taste or snappy ginger taste like in some but not all pumpkin pies. I thought the pie was good but it did leave a really sweet taffy kind of taste as the finish in my mouth.

So I tried it a second time but room temperature this time. This time I got the more custardy feel that I’m used to. I thought the nutmeg flavor came out more for me at room temperature and I didn’t get that sweet after taste this time. I thought the crust lacked a natural butter taste that I prefer in pie crust but was still flaky and not like wet cardboard like most store purchased pies. I preferred the pie at room temperature.

The Forking Truth is that It’s a pretty good pie for $3.48 comparing it to other machine made store purchased pies.

My home came with all GE Monogram Appliances. My first problem was that my dishwasher had a slow leak and ruined my cabinets and flooring and trim. The dishwasher and home were under warranty so the dishwasher was replaced and some but not all repairs were done.

I also had a problem with my GE Monogram Wall Oven. It kept shutting off so the GE repairman replaced my control panel and touch pad for $300.00. My oven still kept shutting itself off. This time the GE repairman does a visual inspection. He finds the problem this time. My oven had an incorrect connector wire that caught on fire and was burned out. It was replaced with a correct ceramic connector that only cost less than $10.00. I spent the $300.00 on a new control touch and control pad I didn’t need due to the GE repairman’s diagnosis.

The biggest GE Monogram problem I had was my microwave oven that I seldom used. I moved into my house a couple days before Jan-1-07. In short 5 magnetrons have failed in my microwave oven between October 2007-2010. A magnetron I’m told is suppose to last 5 years. For some reason they wear out in GE Monogram Microwave ovens. It’s not free to get the GE repairman here and I spent quite a bundle on all those forking visits. Not to mention these were very expensive appliances that I paid for in the price of my home.

First GE Monogram Microwave repair Oct 25th-07 -replaced magnetron

Second Microwave repair June 30th -08 -replaced magnetron

Third Microwave repair November 13th -08 replaced magnetron

Forth Microwave repair October 26th -09 replaced magnetron

A few months latter the microwave stopped working again. Guessing it’s the magnetron again.

I asked and actually begged GE to replace my microwave oven since it was a defective lemon of an appliance. A magnetron should last 5 years but they were not understanding and wouldn’t replace my Microwave Oven.

I spoke to someone named Tommy from GE who only offered me 50% off parts and labor or a discount to purchase a new GE microwave oven. Yet I would have to find a trim kit on my own. I checked the discount Tommy offered me at my local appliance store and the discount turned out to be  very minimal.

I decided to throw out my (over $1,000.00) microwave oven and had a couple hundred dollar Frigidaire Microwave Oven installed. I haven’t had any trouble with my Frigidaire Microwave Oven so far. it’s been working great for years and actually works much better.

Currently I’ve had some trouble with the interior plastic cracking in my GE Monogram Refrigerator.

The egg tray also feel apart a few years back.

Every day I wonder how long my dishwasher will work because the screws holding it together are rusted.

Currently my lower GE Monogram Oven shuts off while on. I haven’t had it repaired yet at this time because it’s an intermittent problem and I have to wait till it’s worst so a repairman can witness it’s not working. At the time of this post it works about 80% of the time. I also don’t use the lower oven often.

I’ve also had a repair to the GE Monogram Refrigerator over the past year or so. I didn’t document it and  I just forgot what it was but I do have the repair bill on file.

From my experience

GE Customer Relations are not understanding.

GE Appliance Repair is NOT accurate diagnosing repairs.

GE Appliances are NOT QUALITY.

 

Lasagna almost everyone loves lasagna.

I made soaked semolina cakes called Basboosa.

Cannoli in Chocolate, Vanila and Cinnamon

Chef Thomas Keller’s Bouchons

Pots de Creme

Hope you all Forking Enjoyed and have a Happy New Year!

 

 

 

 

The KitchenAid Spiralizer Attachment cost between $75.00 (Kohls) up to $149.00 (Macy’s) depending on where you shop and averages at $129.00 (almost everywhere). The Padero Spiral Vegetable Slicer cost around $30.00. (I’ve seen look-a-likes that cost less and might not work as well?)

The Pros

1- It’s a KichenAid Product that mostly metal with some plastic parts -Padero is mostly plastic with some metal.

2- It’s easy to clean – As is the Padero.

3-It has a peeler attachment – The Padero does not peal.

4-It makes a nice shape spiral for frying. – The Padero makes slightly thinner spirals.

The Cons

1-It cost more than the Padero Spiral Vegetable Slicer

2- It doesn’t do angel hair strands like the Padero

3-Odd shape potatoes don’t spiralize unlike the when using the Padero

4-Potatoes that are medium/large and larger need to be cut down because they don’t fit in. The Padero  can slide to do a larger potato or squash.

5- I wasted some potatoes that I tried to spiralize and the waste splattered all over my counter.

Well the forking truth is that the Padero doesn’t look as cool as the KichenAid Attachment and how long it will last against the KitchenAid Attachment I don’t know. It also doesn’t peal but for me it works better and more efficient.

So I already Forking Returned the KitchenAid Spiralizer Attachment.

I can’t say it’s not worth a fork because it can spiralize nicely under the right conditions.

 

Does Forking Fecal Material matter to you in your food?

I was deeply bothered about the recent Consumer Reports Story.

In short they said that every sample of ground beef they tested contained some fecal matter.

Some of the ways fecal matter gets spread to the beef are……

At the Slaughter house from a number of ways

Removing the hides (cutting threw everything)

Breaking the gastrointestinal tract (splashing all over)

Simply from the tools not being cleaned after feces contact.

I don’t know if kosher beef was tasted. I know kosher beef is only the front quarter of the cow so chances of fecal material getting on that meat would be more difficult.

I was surprised to learn that Sardinian People enjoy cheese with maggot poop.

The cheese called case marzu is banned but is still made anyway. The cheese starts out as a pecorino that they leave out and cut the crust off attracting maggots to lay eggs. The eggs hatch and turn to larvae and then the larvae poop and that becomes the unique flavor of this cheese. It’s said that when you eat this cheese you have to chew and kill the maggots or they will chew threw your intestines. I read this from the Huffington Post.

According to infowars.com if you eat fish from China it’s likely the fish were raised eating pig poop. Most of China’s poultry are raised eating pig poop too according to infowers.com.

The FORKING SAD thing is……

The FDA rejected thousands of food shipments from Asia due to FECAL contamination and the FORKING kicker is that only 3% of the food gets inspected.

A study from the International Journal of Food Microbiology states that Fecal Contamination often happens at soda fountains.

I don’t even want to know how the fork that happens.

The DailyTech.com posted that the Japanese are already experimenting with growing steak from FORKING POOP.

What the fork would you have with that?????? A side of Pees?

Does fecal material matter to you in your food?