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?

 

Baking soda has many culinary uses in the kitchen that you might not forking know about.

A small amount of baking soda is added to popsicles to prevent them from getting forking rock hard.

Home made yogurt taste less tangy with a little added baking soda.

Although baking soda tends to make canned tomatoes to taste flat sometimes baking soda is added to neutralize acid.

Some cooks add baking soda to boiled vegetables to keep their color….however the vegetables do tend to get soggy.

I haven’t tried it but I read in Cook’s Illustrated Magazine that baking soda is used to help caramelize meat.

I have tried the Cook’s magazine recipe that uses baking soda to make better tasting browned potatoes.

When boiling eggs a little baking soda added to the water helps to make the shells peal off easily.

To make the best creamiest hummus add baking soda to the boiling garbanzo beans.

Bring to slow boil cream and add some baking soda to make cream cheese.

Perhaps these are more Uses for Baking Soda than you Forking Knew About?

References

incredible egg.org

chowhound.com

Cook’s Illustrated Magazine

The Forking Truth is that sometimes a Very Good Restaurant WILL SCREW UP. I was at this well known usually very good restaurant recently in Carefree Arizona. This is a restaurant that has a James Beard Nominated Chef/owner. I love nearly all the food I’ve tried at this Chef’s Restaurants. The food is always highest quality, mostly locally sourced, very creative and masterfully prepared. The food is always forking good and sometimes it’s so good it’s mind-blowing. I’ve been here several times before so I was looking forward to an amazing lunch. I have blogged about all the Chef’s other restaurants and was hoping for a new “Worth a Fork” story to tell. Sadly what happened to me here I wouldn’t want to happen to you so I don’t feel like writing a “Worth a Fork” story. Instead I have to just tell The Forking Truth about what happened kind of forking story.

We arrived and a server told us to pick any table we wanted so I picked a table facing the scenic mountains instead of the other direction with a table facing the parking lot. The server takes our beverage order and I soon receive an iced tea. I was looking forward to starting with a creative vegetable plate prepared with interesting ingredients I’d never think of paring together. Then a lunch plate of some sort and if I had room maybe dessert.

It wasn’t too busy yet in the restaurant and only a few tables were seated behind me.

Then the forking unthinkable happens.

Nobody forking comes back to wait on us……

We wait……

We forking wait some more……

We notice the three tables behind us were all waited on and those people are eating but we didn’t get any FORKING service.

Why?

What am I Forking Chopped Liver?

A forking Leper?

Twenty five or more minutes go by so we decided to have lunch some forking place else.

Against my husband’s wishes I left $4.00 on the table. Not as a tip but I wanted to pay for the forking iced tea I hardly drank.

I wrote my story on one review site and the same day someone who identified themselves to me as the waitress from that restaurant contacted me to let me know that they apologized for bad service and wanted to buy me lunch. To me not getting waited on is the worst thing that can happen (besides forking food poisoning). It’s not like you got any food to rave or complain about. It’s like going to the amusement park and they won’t let you on any rides.

I would have thought the owner would have apologized on this one because it’s a biggy…I think.

I was very unhappy about making the trip to this restaurant and not getting waited on. I traveled maybe 30-45 forking minutes to dine here. It’s not terribly far but it’s not in my forking back yard either.

I also feel really forking weird about the offer to come back because if I come back to take them up on the free lunch offer they might just artificially kiss up to me.

I’m just very unhappy that this happened…….

I guess I should be happy that they want to fix this and I should take them up on their offer.

I do note that you will usually get service from this particular restaurant and the food is usually very good but, on my last visit THEY DID FORKING SCREW UP.

As a forking update…..Nothing has happened so far…………

The Forking Truth is that Sometimes A Very Good Restaurant WILL SCREW UP and if they are a very good restaurant they will try to fix it.