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Every parent's favorite Christmas?

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All Things Food, beverage and beyond Happy Saturday to you.

Jeez, I feel like I've been in the studio every single day, like I don't know, forever.

Is that dramatic enough?

Forever?

And today I'm with my my boy, hanging out with my boy who's here today.

He turns nine tomorrow, my son, my little boy.

Oh, I up, he drove us here today.

It's kind of cool.

His girlfriend seems nice, his new CPA seems like a great guy.

So he's moving along his new job.

Hey, come here for a second.

You said you wanted to give a shout out to all the young kids today in a special way.

Come here, what do you want to tell everybody?

Six sven?

You just got six seven to everybody who teachers listening?

Oh my god, I thought it was on vacation.

Had a boy you six seven all over him.

That'll teach him alight.

Yeah, we've done plenty of that around the house, a lot of sixes and sevens.

He is the class representative too, He was elected Crest class representative.

Yeah, and he ran on six seven.

Yeah.

That and free bus rides for all of New York.

Yeah, so it seems to be working all right.

Hot drinks, some quick and easy ones for Technique of the Week, and then we got a lot to get into today, including to remind you about the fifteenth annual kfive Postathon is eyeballs Deep.

Now we're gonna be broadcasting live on Giving Tuesday this Tuesday, December second, from five am to eight pm.

At the Anaheim White House.

We'll be giving more details on that as well, and you can also go to find out more at KFI AM six forty dot com slash Postathon.

Bill and I have an option you.

Can bid on for an in person barbecue party at Bill Handle's home you heard right in his backyard.

We're gonna have fun chefs there and it'll be very a small, intimate event and you can win a seat there, actually pay for a seat there, but it goes to a good cost.

You can check that out a ki A sixty dot com slash pasta thon.

That's really cool.

But we have some fun things we've got for you, So a couple of quick things hot chocolate.

I was at Disneyland last week on Sunday and Monday with the family.

My brother Craig came along and we just had the best time.

And I got to tell you we had beignets or like I call them ben yay, I like it is what I'm saying.

And they are delicious, and they have a peppermint dipping sauce there like a frosting that's really great.

And then they have a new Mickey Ears one that is also peppermint powder on it that's really it's subtle, but it's it's very nice.

And they're hot.

Chocolate hit me as extra delicious, and.

I was just trying.

I was like, there's something about this that is just really good, and it reminded me of one of the ways we make it at home.

Now, I've made hot chocolate every way you could possibly imagine, including melted chocolate itself.

But still you want a great hot chocolate with zero fuss.

Brogars.

Go to your store and look for Broghers.

They are a local dairy and to me, they have the best chocolate milk and if you can find it, the best eggnog.

They come in these beautiful glass bottles that you can return.

But it's just old school delicious.

But you take their chocolate milk, which is thick and creamy and lovely, and you just heat it up, put it in a saucepan on the stove and gently warm it up and it's amazing.

So for Max's birthday, we actually said celebrated with some school kids a week or so ago and in the rain, and we did a little hot chocolate bar.

So you do the cocoa and you make that and it's wonderful.

And then you get different flavored whipped creams, and then you get different things that you can put on top, whether it's crushed peppermint or whatever it is, the little Jimmy's, the little decorations and things like that, and you put it on top, and they got to put their own together.

But kids will tell you when something isn't great.

And these kids flipped over Broger's because it is just that good.

And I'm telling you that their eggnog is so good as well.

You know what I'll do straight from the bottle, adding nothing.

I will dip bread in it and make French toast with their eggnog because it's that good.

Yeah, straight up, I know right, you're learning something here.

Apple cider.

This is super simple.

And if you can't find cider, you can get apple juice.

But you find a good apple cider, you put it in a saucepan.

You add your cinnamon sticks in there, and then slice rounds of an orange about a quarter of an inch thick, and you put them in there in a saucepan with the cider with the cinnamon sticks, and you bring it up to temperature.

Let that simmer in your house.

You don't even need to drink it to fill feel christmasy now, you know, obviously, both of those drinks can be adultified if you want to put some rum or something like that in there.

They go very very nicely with these Christmasy drinks.

If you want to get some you know, peppermint schnops or something that goes well with the hot chocolate, for sure.

But these are super duper simple, warm drinks that have a big impact and you virtually do nothing for them.

You let them star as themselves and they just come out fantastic.

All right, We'll get into some others, some buttered RUMs, some mulled wine.

How about a hot toddy.

You were here right, we come back, so go know where it's the Fork Report.

I'm Nil Savedra, KFI AM six forty.

Happy Saturday to you.

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Hey everybody, it's the Fork Report.

Happy Saturday to you.

Look at this.

We've lived through Black Friday, where eyeballs deep in Thanksgiving weekend.

December is knocking on our door and decorations.

I've seen a lot of them up already.

I'm your your well fed host, Neil Savadrin, very thrilled always to be here during the holidays is just a special time for us to connect and be together.

It's my boys ninth birthday tomorrow, so he's hanging out with Daddy today.

He hasn't been to the studio in a while, so it's kind of nice to have him here.

And boy, we have a lineup today, some folks we want to talk to you about.

They've both been on the show before and it'll be fun.

We'll get into that.

Coming up right now, we're talking about hot drinks.

I know our weather is weird, but it is.

You know, it has been cold at night and in the morning.

When I came in the other day for the Handles show, it was it just had that crisp coolness that just makes you, I don't know, just puts you in the in the spirit, and that puts you just makes it feel like you're having some weather.

So I thought about hot drinks.

Now, of course, there are drinks that can be adultified or served.

You know, we talked about cider and hot chocolate just a little bit ago.

We'll get into some that have alcohol.

You could put alcohol in those, of course, but these are alcoholic by nature.

And the first one is I'm trying to get two in here.

Mold wine.

Mold wine is a warmed wine that has wonderful ingredients that spring out the flavor of the holidays.

So it's got spices, it's got honey, it's got fruit brandy.

You put some brandy in the wine and it kicks up everything and makes it super lovely.

So you get seven and fifty milli liter.

That's just a bottle of red wine.

One orange sliced into rounds.

You're gonna put some aside for serving garnish.

Six whole cloves, three three inch cinnamon sticks, plus more of course for serving.

Three star anise pods.

This is kind of a licoricy flavor, the star anise.

It brings to the flavor.

Pealet here, half cup, quarter cup honey, And you want to put this in a medium saucepan over medium heat.

You bring the wine, the oranges, clove, cinnamon, starrnise, brandy, and honey to a simmer, don't boil, reduce the heat to medium low, and you just cook, sturing occasionally.

It's going to get super fragrant.

It's going to reduce just a little bit.

You want to do this for about ten minutes or so, and then you divide it among different cups or mugs or whatever you want to do, and you garnish it with more orange slices and cinnamon sticks.

And boy, is that the best air freshener you can have in your house too.

It's just going to be absolutely stunning.

Okay, quick, One hot Toddy, which is another one of my favorite ones.

A hot Toddy is a lovely adult beverage for the holidays as well.

It is not difficult to make many of these things.

You're Tom and Jerry, You're hot toddies, hot buttered rum, the hot buttered rum, and the Tama jerret.

You can find a pre mixed concoction to help you make these more quickly, but a hot toddi is super super easy.

Two ounces of bourbon, two tablespoons of honey, one tablespoon of fresh lemon juice.

I mean, it's really going to be brighter and more pleasant than the jarred stuff or the little squeeze lemon thing, but you could use that as well, and then lemon slices and cinnamon sticks for serving.

But in a small sauce pan over medium heat, you heat one third cup of water until simmering.

In a mug, you combine bourbon, the honey and the lemon juice, and then carefully pour in hot water, stirring with a spoon until the honey is dissolved and you taste and you add more water if needed.

I'm looking at less water, if you know what I'm saying.

Garnish with lemon slices and cinnamon sticks and that's it.

Easy peasy lemon literally squeezy.

So those are a couple of hot drinks ideas for the holiday season that are really lovely.

Uh, jam up how you wish, but they're just very delicious on their own.

Stick around.

More to come on The Fork Report.

I'm Nil Savedra.

You're listening to The Fork Report with Nil Savedra on demand from KFI AM six forty.

Hey, everybody, it's the Fork Report.

All thing food, beverage and beyond.

We just take three hours every Saturday from two to five to shake off the heaviness of the week.

Whatever is going on in the news, and there is always a lot, it seems, but just come together and celebrate food, kind of shake all that stuff off and you know, come together on something we all love and that's good, good food.

Of course, the Super Bowl of Food was on Thursday, as we celebrated Thanksgiving with a feast, whatever your feast is in your house.

I hope it went well and enjoyed.

You know.

It's been talking to people and I was surprised there was no I mean, when you get thirty five forty people together, there was no politics that I heard talked about this year, and that's not usually the case, and I heard that from many people.

So I hope yours was peaceful and focused on connecting and getting together.

We're going to get into leftovers in a minute, how to use them safely and some ideas for you if you're thinking why do I I want to do something different.

But I also want to remind you about the fifteenth annual KFI Postathon.

It is here.

You can donate at any time at KFI AM six forty dot com slash Postathon.

That's KFI AM six forty dot com slash Postathon.

But we're doing our our live broadcast giving Tuesday.

That's this Tuesday, December second.

We'll be doing it from five am to eight pm.

So you'll have starting with Amy King with a wake up call, and I will go through eight pm with Conway and it's gonna be a good time.

It's gonna be there at the Anheim White House.

More details you can find at the website there.

But keep in mind Jeff Bruno and his charity, Katerina's Club, provides more than twenty five thousand meals every week every week to kids in need here in southern California, and your generosity really makes it happen, and that cannot be overstated.

Bruno will tell you that sixty to seventy percent of their budget comes from you, the KFI listener, and supporting us through all the different ways you support.

So not only you can donate pasta and sath sauce and all of that, but you can go to any Wild Fork Foods location.

They've been wonderful partners to us.

You just say KFI Pastathon when you check out, and fifteen percent of your purchase will be donated to the KFI Pastathon Smart and final.

Of course, you.

Can donate any amount at any store in California, Arizona, and Nevada through twelve seven.

Wendy's has been great and their food is wonderful.

You can donate at any so Cal Wendy's location through twelve seven as well.

Give them five dollars or more donation and you'll get a coupon book that gives you great things like a free children's meal with a purchase, and free nuggets and all kinds of great stuff definitely worth more than five dollars, so you get a double hit there.

But check out all of this at KFI AM six forty dot com slash pastathon on.

Also want to remind you that Bill and I have a special auction item that you can find at KFIM six forty dot com slash pastathon, along with other really wonderful auction items from Gary and Shannon and Dean Sharp and John Cobalt and doctor Wendy and all kinds of things there that you can find there.

But it is we tried to come up with something really really special.

And exclusive, and I think we did.

I'm going to broadcast the Folk Report live from Bill Handle's backyard.

I think it's in March some time of next year for a backyard barbecue, and the highest bidder is going to come with their guest to Bill Handle's house barbecue.

Not only will and I'm white House do some catering there.

We're going to be grilling.

It's going to be an excellent and intimate experience.

So we'd love to have you there.

If it's put on your heart to donate, please do again.

Kfiam six forty dot com slash pastathon.

What a wonderful, wonderful way to donate.

And that's our reward to you for being so generous.

All right, Okay, so this is the deal.

I'm going to make it as simple as possible, not getting into all the details.

But your leftovers for Thanksgiving have to be eaten by Monday.

You have three to four days to eat them, and so they got to be gone by Monday.

That's really what it comes down to.

Now, how do you use them?

Man, be creative, enjoy yourself nachos.

Have you thought about that, taking some of your leftovers your turkey?

Maybe even mashed potatoes, stuffing whatever you wantberry gravy and cheese on a bed of crunchy nacho chips, whatever you want to do.

Toast them off in the oven.

And it's a fantastic way to use it.

You know what else is great is potato skins.

You know, like twice baked potato type situation where the potato skins you scoop out the insides there.

You put a lot of good stuff in there.

We'll put your Thanksgiving leftovers in there.

You know, a little bit of cheddar cheese.

You bake those off and you got yourself something really truly wonderful, and it's got all those great flavors.

You can do turkey melts, but do it with maybe some bree and some cranberries, a little bit of that cranberry sauce, little sweet a little tart up against that turkey and the creaminess of the melted three come on.

Stop.

Also, Thanksgiving leftovers in a taco form works great, whether you want the corn tortilla or a flower tortilla.

Putting it together into a like a Thanksgiving sandwich you do, like a crunch wrap type situation.

But it just is another great thing that you can add some crunchy bit, some tender bits to it.

I've seen egg rolls being made where you chop it up and you add some fresh ingredients in there and then you put it in the egg roll wrapper and you fry them.

Come on, you get this crispy goodness.

You can do other things that come to mind that are simple, like turkey salad, things like that.

But there's there's nothing, there's nothing.

It could be any sort of cultural twist on it, whether it's you know, Mexican or Spanish, whether it's Asian inspired, whether it's a good old sandwich, which is one of my favorites.

But you can use it with other ingredients.

Make yourself an Italian chopped salad with the turkey.

Do you make a casserole with all of these things together?

They just are one of those things that come together so lovely.

Now, another thing is a Monte Cristo sandwich, which I love.

So you get some of you get some Swiss cheese, and then you add some of that ham, that turkey, a little bit of Dijon mustard and you, you know, put put it in batter and you shallow fry it.

You dust it with some of that powdered sugar and you can use you know, jam on the side, or you can use you know, some of your cranberry sauce and you get that sweet and savory and delicious.

The whole point is it doesn't have to be the same old, same all.

You can judge it up however you want and enjoy it in any sort of setting and it just becomes lovely turkey pot pie.

I did a ham pop pie one year with the leftovers, and it's one of my favorite things still to this day.

So just keep those things in mind.

Enjoy it.

But no, it's not there forever.

It will go bad, so eat it up asap.

It's the Fork Report on Neil Savadra KFIM six forty.

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Happy holidays to you man, Christmas around the corner.

Of course, you've got Hanukkah Kwanza as well, which obviously I'm less familiar with, but I will tell you.

I love this time of year.

I just do.

And one of the reasons why I dig it is the and it's the fifteenth annual KFI Pastathon Chef Bruno and his beautiful charity, Katerina's Club, named after his lovely mom, God Rest her Soul, provides more than twenty five thousand meals every week to kids in need here in southern California, and the KFI listener, you and your generosity every year blows us away and really is doing the heavy lifting of all the work.

They're money wise, and Chef Bruno and his team are always.

So humbled by it, as are all of us.

So a couple of ways to donate.

You can go to very simply, you go to kfiam six forty dot com slash Pastathon.

Of course, you can donate at anytime.

You can go to wild Fork Foods our partners and friends on the Fork Report.

There you just say KFI Pastathon at checkout in teen percent of your purchase will be donated to the KFI Pastathon.

Wendy's donate at any so Cal Wendy's location through twelve seven.

You can donate at any any amount at any store Smart and Final store in California, Arizona and Nevada, and we thank you for that.

And you can bid on a bunch of items you've got co hosting an hour with John Cobalt, a Dodgers game with Gary and Shannon, A Dodgers game with Dean and his wife, coaching meeting with a life coaching meeting with doctor Wendy Angel Martinez and her Naughty Sandals or They're Beautiful.

She does gorgeous work there.

There's trips to Las Vegas, the Magic Castle, Exclusive dinner for eight at Anaheim White House.

There is an Apple Watch, all kinds of great stuff.

You have to kind of go through and check all this out.

But Handle and I are doing something very special this year.

We want to do something big and it's a backyard barbecue.

I will be broadcasting the show live from Bill Handle's backyard and we're going to have an old fashioned barbecue in the backyard.

Well, we have it upscale, yes is ana I'm White House and Bruno going to be doing some catering absolutely, but we'll have pitmasters there and some chefs there grilling as well, and the highest bidder we'll be able to invite someone and a plus one and come to this backyard barbecue, which will be basically for you and it will be good fun.

So we're looking to raise a lot there.

It's at sixty five hundred right now.

We'd love to see it getting even higher than that, which is very generous, So check that out.

Kfi am six forty dot com slash pastathon.

All Right, some quick tips dealing with leftovers.

I told you that you've got three to four days fre eating most of these things, and or you want to freeze them, Today would probably be the day I would freeze them.

Personally, your ham, anything that you've got that you want to store, now's the time to do it.

A couple of things when you think about storing them.

If you want to freeze, hard cheeses like parmesan, cheddar Swiss can last up to four weeks in the refrigerator, that's fine once opened, and up to six months if frozen.

But some cheeses do not freeze.

Your soft cheeses breeze.

Your ricotta or racota can be refrigerated for up to one week, but should not be frozen.

Fruit pies.

Fruit pies typically last for one to two days at room temperature, or up to a week in the refrigerator, but I don't know how a pie can last for up to one week anyway.

Personally, I'm already plowing through the leftovers of the pumpkin pie, but you think cream meringue, pumpkin pecan.

All pies that traditionally contain Dairian eggs dairi and eggs must be refrigerated for one and will usually last up to three or four days, so they should be.

Gone this weekend as well.

Reheating, you have to reheat things up to one sixty five.

They've got to go up to the safe temperature to protect you from any bacteria that obviously grows when you know things are around for a while.

But a key thing in with freezing is if you have a vacuum seal bag, that's the best way your food savor that type of thing.

The reason why is it takes the air out and a good deal of the moisture that create little sharp shards of ice.

Because freezers home freezers don't freeze as quickly as commercial freezers, so the longer it takes something to freeze, the longer those little crystals form, and the more like daggers they start cutting into and damaging the cell walls and things like that.

So it makes food that should be more structured and firm, it makes it mushy or soft, and it gets weird things like that.

That's what you're doing in the freezer.

You're trying to protect it from freezer burn or any damage from the in the freezing process, because of course, when you're at thirty eight degrees and cooler, no bacteria is growing at that at any rate when it's under that kind of temperature.

So really it's about not getting it damaged by the process of freezing, and therefore you're going to have it fine for another time.

But that's the things you want to do, but probably you'll end up getting through it.

My hope is with those sandwiches or salads or whatever you might be doing.

But really.

Today and tomorrow should be the days that you're wrapping up any of your Thanksgiving leftovers, so enjoy them.

Be safe because you don't want to be sorry.

You don't want to get the turkey trots, not these kinds of turkey trots.

All right, the good folks from Gisados are coming in.

We'll have some great food and talk about their success stories and where they're at right now as we celebrate a big anniversary for them.

So go know where it's the Fork Report.

I'm Nil Savedra.

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