Buyer Beware when you eat Something Packaged (Part 1)

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I was living in a Fool’s Paradise not knowing about all the FORKING CRAP they sneak into processed foods and Fast Food.  Maybe YOU ARE TOO!

I already wrote about Castoreum that Beaver castor sac substance mixed with FORKING Beaver’s Urine by the anal gland. (WTFork) (WHYyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy) (if you remember Nancy Kerrigan, the Ice Skater  insert that picture here) WHYyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

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A very small amount of Castoreum is used (but not noted on food labels because it’s a “natural flavor”) in NOT ALL but some naturally flavored mostly vanilla raspberry things. A little bit goes a very long way and not much is needed only trace amounts. It’s also very expensive and not much is produced. I don’t have a forking clue on why someone decided to eat it.

Recently I wrote about Gelatin. I had no idea it was so Forking Processed to a forking point that many people don’t even consider it a meat substance even though it starts as Pig Skin.  The stuff is processed so much chemically it no longer is forking meat and even a starving Dog won’t eat it. Gelatin is added to so many things it’s scary.

Fast Food is fast and some people enjoy it. Recently according to the Huffington Post they wrote about a few Fast Food Places and some of the horrifying ingredients in their products they sell.

The Eggs in a Subway Breakfast Sandwich aren’t what you think there cracked up to be. (excuse bad pun) Besides eggs they have a solvent found in shaving cream, a silicon found in Silly Putty, and a Sealant found on Roofs and Concrete. God only knows what they’re going to find in you when you forking eat the stuff.  (Forking Gross)

Another Story reports about Chicken McNuggets sitting out on a counter too long and actually………

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MELTING

into a pool of liquid.

You’d think a FORKING salad would be OK wouldn’t you? (WTFork Forking worst than gross)

No!

Sadly most fast food salad lettuce has PROPYLENE GLCOL in it.

FYI Propylene Glcol is in Antifreeze and Sexual Lubricants.  This sounds like the set up for a good joke. Antifreeze and Sexual Lubricants……???

Buyer Beware when you eat something packaged.

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Chef Burke Inspired Fisherman’s Toast

I was forking watching Top Chef Duels and Chef David Burke made something called Fisherman’s Toast and all the judges were raving about it. They all went forking on and on with someone saying something like, “It’s so good I Could Forking eat this everyday forever”.  I don’t know exactly how he made it because all he revealed was that is was toast that’s charred with butter, meyer lemon and nori. I looked all over the web and nobody has posted a similar forking recipe anywhere. I was in a hurry to make this since it seemed so simple.  I didn’t go out to buy quality bread or light my grill.

I’m guessing that he grilled the bread to get the perfect char and that perfect char just before burnt is the secret.

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I just toasted the bread and got a taste of what it could be. My taster enjoyed it.

I know it wasn’t nailed but I’m excited to do it next time.

Something to try.

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Pickled Beet Flatbread Recipe

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Pickled Beets have such a great flavor and you can add them to other normal everyday things to make something forking interesting. For this Pickled Beet Flatbread just set your forking oven to 400 degrees get two pieces  of parchment paper, your baking sheet and a rolling pin and you can make this tasty flatbread in minutes.

Ingredients

1 Cup Whole Wheat Flour

1/4 Cup Corn Meal

1/4 teaspoon Baking Powder

1/4 teaspoon Baking Soda

1/4 teaspoon Kosher Salt

1 Tablespoon Extra Virgin Olive Oil

1/2 Cup Your Home Made Pickled Beets and fill the rest of the cup with Beet Liquid

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Then Blend your Beets.

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1/4 cup extra Beet Liquid

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Mix well and roll flat between two pieces of parchment paper. (Or use one silicone mat and parchment paper.

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Remove upper parchment and bake flatbread on parchment on baking sheet in a 400 degree oven for about 10 minutes.

Decorate as desired.

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Just a Salad with the previous Meyer Lemon Mint Tahini Dressing Recipe taste really forking good on Pickled Beet Flatbread.  I’m thinking of several other combinations with this one. There’s a bunch you can do with this one.

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Forking Good!

Forking Good!

Meyer Lemon Mint Tahini Dressing

Beet Flatbread with Chickpea Salad and Meyer Lemon Mint Tahini Dressing

Beet Flatbread with Fresh Salad and Meyer Lemon Mint Tahini Dressing

A little Twist on the classic Lemon Mint Flavor. Very forking tasty this recipe is a keeper.

Ingredients

2 small or one large Garlic Clove minced

2 Medium Sized Meyer Lemons (The Juice from both and at least one of the zest)

2 Tablespoons Extra Virgin Olive Oil

2 Tablespoons Tahini

1 Chile De Arbol minced

1 teaspoon dried mint

1 teaspoon Hibiscus Syrup

A small amount of fresh crushed Sea Salt and Black Pepper

Depending on how thick your tahini is you might need to add some water to thin. You just mix ingredients well and you have a delicious dressing to make a salad special.

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Forking Good!

Forking Good!

WTFork is that? (Chickpeas)

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Depending on where you forking live you might have never seen fresh Chickpeas.

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The Chicken is a Legume that is high in protein and is one of the earliest cultivated Legumes.

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Other names for the Chickpea are, Garbanzo Bean, Ceci Bean and Channa.

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These raw green one taste similar to  raw English Peas and can be prepared as similar dishes but do take a forking long time to shell.

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Easy Chicken Gumbo

Easy Chicken Gumbo over Pink Rice

Easy Chicken Gumbo over Madagascar Pink Rice

It takes a forking long time to make Gumbo the trick is low and slow so you need prepare for that and also need a just roasted chicken with saved Chicken Fat for that deep chicken flavor you want. The Red Bell Peppers and Heirloom Tomatoes added extra sweetness to this gumbo.

 

Ingredients

1/4 Cup Chicken Fat (saved from your fresh roasted chicken)

1/4 Cup Flour

1 Red Bell Pepper diced

1 Sweet Onion Diced

3 Stalks Celery Diced

1 Roasted Hatch Chili minced (or any very hot pepper you have)

3 Cloves Garlic minced

2 Cups Chicken Stock

2 Bay Leaves

About a pound of Heirloom Tomatoes Diced

1/2 teaspoon Cayenne Pepper

1/2 teaspoon dried Thyme

1/2 teaspoon Kosher Salt

1/2 teaspoon Black Pepper

11/2 teaspoon File Powder

2 teaspoons Worcestershire Sauce

1/4 Cup Dry Sherry

About 8  ounces of your fresh roasted Chicken Pulled or Chopped

About 2 teaspoons Fresh Parsley Chopped

About 2 teaspoons Scallions Chopped

 

Directions

Cook Chicken Fat and Flour on low heat till it’s Milk Chocolate Color but make sure you don’t burn anything along the way or all is forking ruined.

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Add 2 cups of stock and it will thicken forking fast.

Drop in Bell Pepper, Onion, Celery, Hatch, Bay Leaves, Garlic and let simmer till vegetables are soft.

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Add Worcestershire, Sherry, Salt, Black Pepper, Cayenne,  and Tomatoes

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and cook down till Desired Consistency about two hours more on low heat.

 

Remove Bay leaves and add your fresh roasted Chicken and File.

Taste and determine if you want to adjust seasonings.

Garnish with Parsley and Scallions.

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Serve over rice. Makes about 4 Cups or two hearty Bowls.

Easy Chicken Gumbo over Madagascar Pink Rice

Easy Chicken Gumbo over Madagascar Pink Rice

Forking Good!

Forking Good!

 

 

Stuffed Eggplant Casserole

Stuffed Eggplant Casserole

Stuffed Eggplant Casserole

Something a little different to do with Eggplant without breading it. You just broil or grill and season (S&P) your peeled eggplant in thin slices. A heirloom variety will work best because they’re never bitter and are always sweet.

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Then I took the eggplant slices and filled them like tacos with fresh cooked spinach and ricotta cheese mixture. (other ingredients used were Vegetable stock to cook the spinach, Sea Salt. Fresh Ground Black Pepper, sweet onion, carrot, garlic and Extra Virgin Olive Oil)

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Each folded Stuffed Eggplant got topped with Provolone Cheese-

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A slice of Heirloom Tomato, a sprinkling of Sea Salt, Crushed Black Pepper, oregano, basil, and small or half fried sage leaves or a basil leaf would be good.

Bake at 400 degrees about 10 minutes.

Drizzle with extra virgin olive oil and reduced balsamic vinegar.

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Forking Good!

Forking Good!

 

WTFork “K” means Pork ?

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I saw this forking unflavored Gelatin at the Super Market. The “K” on it really caught my eye and I was forking hoping I found a plant based Gelatin.

So I went to forking read the ingredients.

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All I see is Gelatin.

WTFork!

Next I contacted the store that sells this Gelatin and they assured me it was Kosher and Made from Pork Skin.

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In my Head I’m thinking WTFork. How can somebody be so misguided. Everybody knows Pig can never be Kosher.

This is Forked Up!

This is Forked Up!

In my research I learned Copyright Laws don’t apply to single letters so any company can put a “V” or “K” on their product.

Copyrighted Symbols are

Vegan and Vegetarian Symbols

Vegan and Vegetarian Symbols

Kosher Symbols

Kosher Symbols

There is a forking lot of processing that goes into the manufacturing of Gelatin. Collagen is extracted from Skin and Bones, it’s soaked, cooked, filtered and evaporated. During the process it becomes inedible so much so even a starving dog won’t eat it. Food that a starving dog won’t eat loses it’s status as food and becomes the same as eating forking dirt.

Here is how the manufacturer explained it.

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People who still consider this kind of product Kosher are in the extreme minority.

Every reliable Kosher Certifying agency does not consider such a product Kosher.

In the United States almost all Kashrut Organizations do NOT endorse Gelatin made from Non-Kosher Sources.

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“K” doesn’t necessarily mean Kosher it might mean Pork.

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Forking Truth

 

It’s Forking Easy to make a Delicious Crusty Pizza in your Home Oven

 

Most Forking Pizzas that you get out look like this.

Brother's Pizza

Brother’s Pizza

Why have that?

When you can have this?

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I Forking Love making pizza it’s so easy. I do note it’s easier and quicker if you have a double oven but I used to make pizza the same way when I only had a single oven so you can do it too!

Just follow the directions for your yeast. I needed 100-110 degree water

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and for a double batch of dough I needed about the same amount of sugar to yeast.

 

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Then I added this much water.

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And I waited maybe a half hour till I got this.

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Next I added my bread flour

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Till it was almost mixed and then added Kosher Salt and Extra Virgin Olive Oil.

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And I mixed it up by hand and made it into a ball and kept rolling it inside it’s self and added a little more bread flour for the dough to sit in. Then I covered it with plastic wrap and sat it in a warm place.

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I waited for it to double in size and punched it down and kept rolling it into itself again and again.

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And like a forking broken record. I punched it down again and rolled it into itself again and forking again.

I took half the dough and patted it into a slightly Extra Olive Oiled pizza pan topped with a little semolina flour. I also used a little semolina flour to spread it out.

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I wanted a fluffy but crispy crust so I let it sit out half an hour and had my upper oven set at 350 and my lower oven set at 475 with a pizza stone in it.  I baked the crust for about 12 minutes in the upper oven and flipped the crust on a board and then topped it.

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Now this went in the 475 oven on a pizza stone and came out 6 or 7 minutes later.

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Doesn’t This

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Look Forking Better

than

this?

Brother's Pizza

Brother’s Pizza

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WINNER WINNER Spelt and Rolled Oats DOG Biscuit Recipe

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I thought my dogs might enjoy a home made Biscuit made with Spelt Flour and Rolled Oats. I used a small amount of Chicken Fat from yesterday’s roasted chicken to add flavor to them and a little stock. The only other ingredients are Spelt Flour, Rolled Oats, and an Egg. They must be good because both dogs wanted to keep eating them and my Human Companion ate one and said it was very tasty.

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Set your oven for 300 degrees and you need either parchment paper or a silicone mat to line your baking sheet.

Ingredients

1 Cup Spelt Flour

1 Cup Rolled Oats

2 Tablespoons Chicken Fat from your just roasted Chicken

1 Egg

1/4 Cup of Chicken Stock

Mix

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I  hand molded them into 24  Shaped Bones

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and cooked them for 30 minutes on one side and another 30 minutes on the other side at 300 degrees.

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“MORE BISCUITS PLEASE”

“WINNER WINNER Spelt and Rolled Oats Dog Biscuits” (Refrigeration is recommend and please feed in moderation also to use within a week as no chemicals or preservatives were used)

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Forking Truth