I found this forking cute gadget at Home Goods. It claims to have many uses. It’s suppose to grind meat, make sausage and pasta too. Beside being cute, machine washable, less than $20, and easy to put together it has a cool suction device that doesn’t actually suck as it  secures the almost non-working machine to any surface.

I didn’t forking even try to grind meat because it really sucked SO FORKING MUCH at just making pasta. First I tried some  spelt pasta and it took me about 50 cranks to put out this much pasta. I sure was forking cranky after this but thought a more traditional 50% semolina 50% flour mixture might do the trick to making some forking pasta.

So I gave forking rigatoni’s a try.

Same forking thing. About 50 FORKING CRANKS for FORKING 3 pieces of forking pasta.

I forking went back to Home Goods and returned this idiotic device because this forking gadget has ZERO Pastabilities in my forking kitchen.

Not Worth a FORK!

The Forking Truth

Red Bell Peppers even OLD ones are versatile.  I always forking stock up on red bell peppers when they are for sale at a great price.

I cut some up, cook them up and freeze them and a roast up a bunch and freeze roasted red bell peppers. I find that when the pepper is old and wrinkled they roast up more even with the easiest to peel off skins and the pepper gets a better roast. It’s sort of the same reasoning on why the best fried chicken is the kind that sits uncovered in the refrigerator for maybe three days and the skin dries out.

After the peppers are roasted (actually broiled all around) The skins come right off and I use the roasted red peppers in a variety of ways.

Muhammara

Muhammara – basically a roasted red pepper dip traditionally made from roasted red peppers, walnuts, spices, pomegranate and thickened with bread. (I made mine with forking almonds and didn’t add the bread)

Roasted Red Pepper hot paste

Timbale

A layer in the Timbale

Hot Sauce

The backbone in red hot sauce.

Spaghetti Squash with Harissa Vinaigrette

Harissa – roasted peppers, tomatoes, lemon and spices

Romanesco Cauliflower with Romesco Sauce

Romesco sauce – roasted red peppers, garlic, almonds, hazelnuts and most people add bread.

With Dinner

Roasted red bell peppers are great with many dinners, a layer in a sandwich, and also stuffed with breakfast fillings.

Piri Piri Style Chicken

Piri Piri Style Chicken is marinated in a spicy pepper sauce.

Piri Piri Style Chicken with piri piri style sauce

Piri Piri is usually  a spicy red pepper sauce with garlic herbs and citrus.

. Red Pesto

Red Pesto – Roasted red peppers, fresh basil, pine nuts, garlic, EVOO and Sardinian Cheese (Fiore  Sardo).

A Red Pistou might be – Roasted red peppers, basil garlic EVOO

Red Bell Peppers even OLD ones are forking Versatile and Delicious!

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I didn’t forking know that people pickle kale stems until I watched Celebrity Chef Richard Blais at the Chipotle Cultivate Festival in Scottsdale AZ. He mentioned that Chefs do things like pickle kale stems.

Chef Richard Blais in Scottsdale AZ Chipotle Cultivate Festival

Richard Blais specializes in innovative American Cuisine. He made a forking oyster po boy sandwich with not real oysters but used chicken oysters and he also made boudin sausage but not with regular casing he used a forking squid and stuffed that. So while he was forking chatting about Star Wars he gave a helpful hint and suggested to use the stems from kale and make pickles out of them so I thought I’d give it a try. I got this forking wild idea that ginger lemon mint pickles would taste good. Honestly it did taste good on the carrot sticks. But that’s about it so I’m not pushing pickling kale stems. I did boil them a couple minutes as Chef Blais suggested before pickling but I don’t think they are worth it because the kale stems came out just like celery. After boiling the stems they still had that stringy thing like celery. You can peal celery but you can’t peal a kale stem so I forking prefer celery to kale stems. I only liked the way the carrots came out. I sure Chef Blais did kale stems FORKING better or just had forking better kale stems.

I’m not going to forking pickle kale stems again.

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