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SousVide Supreme Time!!!
Remember when we mentioned the new SousVide Supreme water oven back in our 45 Forkfuls of Christmas holiday shopping guide? Well the fantastic SousVide Supreme folks offered to send us a unit to test out here at the FF HQ for two weeks. We had been eagerly anticipating it’s arrival. And it landed on our [...]
Resolutions of the Culinary Variety
So here we are in 2010 – whoohoo! The Foodie Forkful Fam is just home from three weeks of traveling around, visiting all of our little one’s grandparents. We had a great time, and got a bunch of cool foodie gifts (vacuum sealer, ceramic knife, cool spices, etc) that we will surely be using for [...]
Merry Christmas from The Foodie Forkful!
Hope you enjoy a dandy holiday with your family and friends. Merry Christmas from us (specifically from the youngest member of our team – Leo), we’ll be back with more foodie goodness in the new year!
Forkful #5: Reinventing the Wheel
We’re getting down to the wire for Christmas shopping, so here’s a simple yet super-useful one: a handheld pizza cutter. Until we got one of these, I had only ever seen the old-style pizza cutters with the wheel on one end and an angled handle. Usually the blade wheel wobbled all over the place, and [...]
Forkful #9: A Whole Deck of Deals
You may recall the post we did a month or so ago about the release of the 2010 A La Card deck. It’s a deck of 52 cards that you buy for $30, with each card getting you $10 off one of 52 Chicago restaurants. We think it’s pretty cool, and recommend it to anyone [...]
Apples + Cinnamon = Pancakey Goodness
Growing up, a local restaurant had these amazing apple pancakes that were the size of a dinner plate and 2-3″ thick, covered in sugary, caramelized sliced apples, and my best friend and I nearly made ourselves sick by finishing one each in a single sitting. Despite nearly bursting, I’ve had a love affair with apple [...]
Slate.com – Beverage Carbonation Explained
For those who enjoy soda or beer, Slate.com has an interesting article explaining why carbonated drinks can taste different in a bottle versus a can. You learn something new every day…. Does Soda Taste Better In A Bottle Than In A Can?
Peeps-Flavored Popcorn?!
Just in time for Easter, everyone’s favorite avian marshmallow is coming out as a popcorn flavor! Houston Harvest, an Illinois popcorn company, is launching Peeps-flavored popcorn in assorted sizes and colors for Easter. The company also launched Hot Tamales (cinammon) flavored popcorn back in February. But the cult of Peeps goes even further – Lenox [...]
Paula Deen’s Boys Don’t Use Butter?
In an development that actually made me giggle out loud, Paula Deen’s two chef sons are partnering with I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter to promote their new baking sticks. I mean really – Paula Deen is the queen of butter. ICBINB is the company with the TV ads making fun of Mrs. Butterton, who is [...]
Tropical Fruit & Basil Sorbet
I don’t know exactly why, but lately I’ve been obsessed with wanting to experiment with different herbs in sweet applications. The idea of playing in the gray area of the sweet/savory divide is just totally intriguing to me, and since my mental hanster wheel has been spinning on this one for a while I finally [...]
