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Where the Fork I’ve Been Eating in Paso Robles California 2015

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Most people go to Paso Robles to drink wine. I did a lot of wine tasting and also got to eat at several places.

My fist dinner was at Chico’s Cafe in downtown.

Chico's cafe Paso Robles CA

Chico’s cafe Paso Robles CA

I had the local sand dabs special. The fish seemed fresh and was just a tad over cooked with slightly burnt tasting potatoes. I’ve been here several times before and usually the food is executed very well. This wasn’t bad it just wasn’t as great as usual. Oh well.

The food from Thai Classic was so good I ate here twice during my stay.

Lime Fish from Thai Classic Paso Robles CA

Lime Fish from Thai Classic Paso Robles CA

I had the Lime Fish Special. It was spicy, garlicky, limey with fresh tasting meaty mild white fish. It was very good and tasty.

For my second visit I had the Mango Eggplant Curry with Chicken.

Mango Eggplant Curry with Chicken from Thai Classic Paso Robles CA

Mango Eggplant Curry with Chicken from Thai Classic Paso Robles CA

This dish was executed far better than from many Thai Restaurants in my area. The flavors were a welcome slap in the face. The lemon grass flavor just popped and basil was infused into the dish with the other flavors. The sweet mango and coconut milk toned down the heat. This dish just had everything going on and was so forking delicious.

Went to a newly opened restaurant called Fish Gaucho.

Fish Gaucho Paso Robles CA

Fish Gaucho Paso Robles CA

Fish Gaucho is a casual Mexican Style Restaurant. They don’t bring you chips and salsa. If you want chips and salsa you have to order it for around $7.00 and they will bring you chips with several salsas. I tried the ahi tuna and watermelon salad.

Fish Gaucho Paso Robles CA

Fish Gaucho Paso Robles CA

The fish seemed fresh but only had a grey sear on the ends. For my taste this salad had too much acid and was too spicy for me. This salad was almost painful to eat. The peppers were hotter than jalapeños. The salad did taste much better in the few bites were I had watermelon to cool the heat and balance the acid. The salad might have been good if they gave me more than four forking small chunks of watermelon.

Another place that was special that I ate from twice was the Bless Your Heart Bakery.

Bless Your Heart Bakery Paso Robles CA

Bless Your Heart Bakery Paso Robles CA

In this little shop everything is diabetic friendly, gluten free and low glycemic. They don’t have much in the way of sweets on display but you can order nitrate free meat sandwiches on their special healthy fresh baked bread.

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I had fresh roasted nitrate free turkey breast on that special rosemary bread. First bite was so different that it was strange to me. As I ate it it just got better and better. The meat was flavorful and natural. The bread didn’t leave a rock in my stomach like the way real bread does and it really was tasty. The rosemary bread went really well with the turkey.

I also went to the new Peruvian Restaurant called Mistura.

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I had the escabeche. It was sea bass local root vegetables and three kinds of potatoes. Everything about the plate was fresh and tasty. I’ll probably revisit this place on my next trip to Paso.

Mistura Paso Robles CA

Mistura Paso Robles CA

My most special and favorite meal came from Bistro Laurent.

Tomato Cheese Basil Tart from Bistro Laurent Paso Robles CA

Tomato Cheese Basil Tart from Bistro Laurent Paso Robles CA

Bistro Laurent is French Classic Cuisine paired with local ingredients fueled by an experienced Michelin trained Chef. I had the multi course tasting menu paired with wine. They sort of don’t let you pick your dishes. They ask you what you won’t eat and pick plates for you. Wine pours were very generous and the parade of perfectly seasoned and executed foods marched to us paced in a timely manner. Every dish was memorable such as the best cheese plate I ever had.

Bistro Laurent Paso Robles CA

Bistro Laurent Paso Robles CA

The perfect steak.

Bistro Laurant Paso Robles CA

Bistro Laurant Paso Robles CA

A really great dessert.

Floating Island from Bistro Laurent Paso Robles CA

Floating Island from Bistro Laurent Paso Robles CA

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The FORKING BEST Cheese Plate I ever Had…..Whey better than the REST

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The FORKING BEST cheese plate I ever had was the cheese plate from Bistro Laurent in Paso Robles California. Forking Cheesus it made me feel like I never tasted great cheese before. It was something that I couldn’t provolone.

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It was a very simple cheese plate without the usual adornments such as nuts, fruit and honey but this plate showed me that cheese when ultra good doesn’t need embellishments. Cheese plays the starring role. It’s all about the cheese. The cheeses were so amazing that I asked for a list of what I tried. I camembert it any longer and here is my list.

I’m not 100% certain which cheese is what but when I looked up all the cheeses I am pretty certain that the center cheese that looks like a pretty carnation was the Tete De Moine. It might have been the strongest of the cheeses on the plate and is served scraped from a knife for more air surface for proper tasting. In French tete de moine means monk’s head because it was created by monks in the French speaking area of Canton of Bern.

I think the wedge at the top that looks similar to brie is the Reblochon. It might look like brie but it did taste a forking lot better than any brie I ever forking had. Reblochon is a French Cheese from the Alps traditionally made from cow’s milk.

Other Cheeses on the plate are Etorki- pasteurized sheep’s milk cheese made in French Basque County.

Camembert- creamy surface ripened cow’s milk cheese  (unlike any camembert I ever had and more flavorful)

Comte- French Cheese made from unpasteurized cow’s milk from the France-Comte of eastern France (NOTHING like any comte I had before)

Last cheese was spelled Ste Maure by the Chef but in my search the cheese came up either Sainte Maure or Sainte Maure de Touraine. If the cheese was one of the Sainte Maure kinds it was a full fat goats milk cheese made in the province of Touraine. The Sainte Maure de Touraine is made with a straw in the center and the Sainte Maure is made with out the straw. Both are fine cheeses.

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That Cheese Plate WAS THE BEST FORKING CHEESE PLATE I EVER HAD!

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Vegetarian Food Can Be Forking Sexy

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Vegetarian food can be forking sexy and these are some of the Vegetables and Vegetarian Dishes I made. The Forking truth recipes expect for the Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe can be found on this website.

My heirloom tomato pizza….Yum!

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Purple asparagus is sweeter than regular asparagus but it turns green when you cook it.

Easy Salt Crusted Potatoes

Easy Salt Crusted Potatoes

Who doesn’t like a salt crusted potato with butter?

Heirloom carrots

Heirloom microwaved carrot chips

Potato Chips

Easy Microwaved Potato Chips

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Wrinkled  Peppers

Moroccan Inspired Carrots

Moroccan Inspired Carrots

Stuffed Pickled Beets and Blue Cheese Wrappers

Stuffed Pickled Beets and Blue Cheese Wrappers

Brown Sugar Cinnamon Chestnuts with Crisp Sage

Brown Sugar Cinnamon Chestnuts with Crisp Sage

Crisp Carrot Strips

Crisp Carrot Strips

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Potatoes

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More potatoes

Polenta Lasagna

Vegetable Polenta Lasagna with red pepper sauce

Breakfast

Breakfast

No Mayo East Coast Style Cole Slaw

No Mayo East Coast Style Cole Slaw

Mixed Citrus and Saffron Basboosa with Lemon Summac Mascarpone

Mixed Citrus and Saffron Basboosa with Lemon Summac Mascarpone

Kale Sprout

Kale Sprout

Cannoli

Cannoli

Making the Bouchons

Making the Bouchons

Mac-n-Chz

Mac-n-Chz

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Red Spinach and other vegetables

Romanesco Cauliflower with Romesco Sauce

Romanesco Cauliflower with Romesco Sauce

Rainbow Carrots two ways with Apple, Basil and Black Rice

Rainbow Carrots two ways with Apple, Basil and Black Rice

Spaghetti Squash with Harissa Vinaigrette

Spaghetti Squash with Harissa Vinaigrette

Purple Potatoes

Purple baked Potato fries

Flatbread

Pickled Beet Flatbread

Heirloom Pizza

Heirloom Tomato Pizza

Vegetable stuffed Rice Paper

Vegetable stuffed Rice Paper

Vegetable stuffed Rice Paper

Vegetable stuffed Rice Paper

White Sonora Berries Salad in Dijon Sage Vinaigrette

White Sonora Berries Salad in Dijon Sage Vinaigrette

Tomato, Hibiscus, Onion and Roasted Lime Salad

Tomato, Hibiscus, Onion and Roasted Lime Salad

Blinged up Polenta

Blinged up Polenta

Green Chili and Fat Free Cheese Blintz

Green Chili and Fat Free Cheese Blintz

Picked Beet Patties Falafel Style with Pink Horse Radish Cream

Picked Beet Patties Falafel Style with Pink Horse Radish Cream

My Chocolate Chip Cookies

The FORKING BEST Chocolate Chip Cookies that you might see for sale someday on line or at a farmers market.

Timbale

Timbale

Red Lentil and Carrot Kofte

Red Lentil and Carrot Kofte

Duchess Style Parsnips

Duchess Style Parsnips

Ricotta Gnocchi

Ricotta Gnocchi

Roasted Cauliflower

Roasted Cauliflower

Asparagus Guacamole

Asparagus Guacamole

Roasted then Fried Rutabaga topped with oven fried Lotus Chip

Roasted then Fried Rutabaga topped with oven fried Lotus Chip

 Vegetarian can be Sexy and that's The Forking Truth

Vegetarian can be Sexy and that’s The Forking Truth

 

 

The Forking Truth is that Humans are too Stupid to know how to Eat Wrapped Cheese Slices

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The Kraft Heinz Company has extended the recall of Individually wrapped forking cheese product because humans are too forking stupid to know how to eat it without choking. NO I’m not talking about the Cheese Product Slice it’s all about the forking plastic wrap on the cheese. Humans confuse it with the similar cheese product and forking eat it and some humans choke.IMG_9552

After all the forking product that was already recalled again the KHC recalled another 335,000 cases because they received two forking complaints about choking hazards from remaining wrap on the cheese. (according to Zacks Equity Research)

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Probably from someone like this.

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There is just no forking hope for the human race if we are too FORKING stupid to peal plastic off cheese product even if they do taste forking similar. Sadly the forking truth is that humans are too stupid to know how to eat wrapped cheese product.

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I Usually Leave Forking Disappointed from Most Chain Restaurants

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I don’t recall tasting anything forking great from a national chain restaurant in the past ten years.  I’ve usually just thought the food was maybe better than a frozen dinner or almost good or just ok. After just returning from traveling from the airport around dinner time I was forking exhausted and thought just picking up some of the new all natural burgers from a certain chain wouldn’t be such a bad idea. (of course this was before I knew fecal matter has been found in all ground beef……..YUK!) This place promised fresh baked buns and all natural grass fed beef. I try to avoid national chains but this was a very weak forking moment and I was feeling very weak and tired so I gave in to my weakness and said, “what the fork” “why not?”

The burger was ok and much more forking edible compared to the dried out you know who king burger and certainly was very edible compared to my least favorite that I consider inedible  burger (what I call the McDrek Burger). The McDrek just forking seems like devil’s excrement to me. That’s because I always got a headache after eating a McDrek’s burger as a child and haven’t relished the thought of having one since.  The meat in a McDrek’s burger just always looked forking unappetizing to me. It looked like canned dog food mixed with brown baby food and made into a forking patty. I thought it was the forking devil’s poop laid by a clown that laughed at you.

But  as ok as that all natural burger was  it only seemed as good as a 1980’s forking king burger, the old forking recipe when you might have forking gotten it YOUR WAY and the meat might have been real beef that was flame broiled. Both the  all natural burger and the 1980’s forking king burger are and were thin patties of beef in really large buns with a good amount of very similar toppings, lettuce, tomato, onions, sauces. I know the buns differed but that one bite taste did take me back to the 80s. But still this wasn’t a forking great burger it was just ok as a fast food burger and better than todays dried out king burger and FORKING LIGHT YEARS BETTER than the clown’s burger.

I choose not to go to forking national chain restaurants because during my life I’ve been to many of them at some point. At best they were almost good.

That budget steakhouse with all the forking peanuts on the floor seemed kind of fun. You never know who the fork sneezed on them forking peanuts before you. Or who the fork came out of the bathroom and did what and had some peanuts before you…..(think about that one)…. But the food never did taste forking good because of how processed it was and I thought while leaving I was going to cut my foot on a forking peanut shell.

I don’t recall tasting anything forking great from a chain restaurant and I usually leave disappointed or forking grossed out.

I do note I haven’t been to all national chains and haven’t tasted everything at every chain. Also your taste may differ so my opinion is subjective.

I usually leave disappointed from Most Chain Restaurants.

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Does Fecal Matter to You in your Burger ? The Forking Truth

That's FORKED Up!

That’s FORKED Up!

I read on news.yahoo.com that Consumer Reports tested 300 packages of ground beef in 26 cities and reported that EVERY FORKING SAMPLE had FECAL MATTER in it. Channel 3 AZFamily  reported the same news as 450 pounds of ground beef from one hundred stores across the country all containing forking fecal contamination.

A little POOP with your forking burger

A little POOP with your forking burger

I guess all of us that eat burgers…….

Ingo's Tasty Food Phoenix AZ

Ingo’s Tasty Food Phoenix AZ

meatloaf, tacos and meatballs are full of sh*t sometimes from forking fecal matter.

Does Fecal Matter….to you…. in your burger?

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Shishito Peppers are Forking Delicious

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Shishito pepper are FORKING delicious. These thin wall peppers blister up easy and are popping up on restaurant menus everywhere for around $10.00 a plate. About 90% of the peppers are mild but the forking weird thing is you get one super spicy one every so often.

I buy these peppers from my local Asian Market and they were on sale for 99 cents a pound.

 

An easy way to prepare the peppers is simply to roast or fry them.

Not always but often these Japanese peppers are embellished with Asian ingredients in restaurants. I thought I’d do something different that also was delicious.

I cranked up my oven to 450 degrees F and coated the peppers and some crushed hazelnuts with extra virgin olive oil and them roast for about 7-8 minutes till the peppers blistered and the hazelnuts roasted.

Then I topped the peppers with a small amount of roasted tomatoes,  Sardinian Cheese called Fioro Sardo, some oregano, fresh ground sea salt, fresh ground black pepper, a drizzle of reduced balsamic vinegar and Korean shredded red pepper.

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Shishito peppers are FORKING delicious!

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You Forking NEED TO COOK Bean Sprouts

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I forking purchased a bag of bean sprouts and noticed an advisory to boil them or to stir fry them before serving.

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I thought I’ve eating them raw before?

But I read that toxins in the bean sprouts are only broken down from cooking.

Illnesses and deaths have occurred from infections linked to salmonella and e. coli from bean sprouts in the USA and other countries.

I’m never forking eating bean sprouts raw again.

You Forking need to cook bean sprouts.

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The Forking Truth is that When you have a Whale of an Appetite they feed you a Guppy

Little Cleo's Seafood Legend Phoenix AZ

Little Cleo’s Seafood Legend Phoenix AZ

The Forking Truth is when you have a Whale of an appetite they feed you a guppy. Ok my forking dinner was a little bigger than a guppy but it wasn’t enough food and left me somewhat disappointed and forking hungry.

We travelled across town to dine at this place because they were running a four course special for $35.00 and the food is very good from this place.

The first course was a fresh oyster and a freshly prepared shrimp.

Little Cleo's Seafood Legend Phoenix AZ

Little Cleo’s Seafood Legend Phoenix AZ

That I didn’t get to forking eat because I don’t eat shellfish so my husband ate them. I did taste the white wine sauce and the cocktail sauce. Both of those sauces were unusually delicious and the cocktail sauce had little pearls of horseradish floating on the top to give you a more layered tasting.

The next course I picked was the amazing house smoked sturgeon “bacon” and egg toast.

Little Cleo's Seafood Legend Phoenix AZ

Little Cleo’s Seafood Legend Phoenix AZ

That I shared with my husband because he also enjoys it and he said, look at all that bread you got and I didn’t get any bread with my frog legs so I forking gave him half of my second course not knowing I’d screw myself.

Then I got this….you know sometimes SIZE DOES FORKING MATTER!

Little Cleo's Seafood Legend Phoenix AZ

Little Cleo’s Seafood Legend Phoenix AZ

The grilled loup de mer was not only prepared perfect but was forking delicious with the perfect amount of buttery winey richness and lemon-ee acidity and was the perfect portion size if you were the forking size of a hamster.

Note..Hamster got more forking food.....

Note..Hamster got more forking food…..

This platter left me wanting more….for real….i wanted more! I was forking hungry…..Hungry like a wolf.

Hungry Wolf

Hungry Wolf thinking about what to do after that anchovy sized fish

I’ve been to this restaurant earlier this year and ordered the same thing and last time was about three times the forking size of the anchovie I received this time. Below is the Grilled Loup de Mar I had LAST TIME.

Little Cleo's Seafood Legend Phoenix AZ

.. Little Cleo’s Seafood Legend Phoenix AZ

Isn’t last times Fish much BiGGER than this?

Little Cleo's Seafood Legend Phoenix AZ

Little Cleo’s Seafood Legend Phoenix AZ

I usually don’t have room for dessert but eat it anyway most forking times. This time I had FORKING room for dessert.

I do have to say the buttermilk pie was forking delicious.

Little Cleo's Seafood Legend Phoenix AZ

Little Cleo’s Seafood Legend Phoenix AZ

Even the crust was delicious. I usually don’t eat most crust on pies because they are high in calories and forking don’t taste good anyway. But this crust was thin and buttery tasting like it should be and the filling was vanilla-ee with the right amount of sweetness. The cream didn’t come from a can and tasted like it was fresh made. A little fruit on top cut the richness.

The Forking Truth is that when you have a Whale of an Appetite they feed you a forking Guppy.

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The Reign of the Horror of More Pumpkin Spice FORKING Continues with Peeps

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Peeps have been the number one selling non chocolate candy for over 20 years and over five million Peeps are produced a day. Peeps are marshmallow candies that were originally shaped like chicks. At one time Peeps was just an Easter Candy and was made in yellow, pink and white colors. Some time latter the Peeps became all Holiday Candy and now they are anytime candy that happens to be featuring forking seasons like fall. The new fall flavors will be caramel apple, candy corn and FORKING PUMPKIN SPICE!

A few fun facts you might not know about Peeps.

Peeps have a two year forking shelf life.

In 2015 Peeps teamed up with Prairie Farms to produce Peeps flavored milk in marshmallow, chocolate marshmallow and Easter egg nog.

Someone in Sacramento in an eating contest called a “Peep Off” ate 102 forking Peeps in 30 minutes. ( bet  it didn’t hurt coming out)

Bethlehem PA where Peeps are produced drops a forking GIANT Peep for New Year’s Eve.

Peeps are not vegetarian. They are made with forking  Gelatin made from pork.

The reign of horror of more pumpkin spice forking continues with Peeps.

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Information gathered from-

Wikipedia.com

Mentalfloss.com

Degreesearch.org