Welcome Back

Happy New Year! All this week, we will be re-introducing our bloggers by re-posting their very first post for Special Fork. Next week we’ll be back blogging with more cooking insights, helpful tips and delicious recipes that take no more than 30 minutes of prep time, all to solve your daily dinnertime dilemma: what to cook now!

Today we feature my introductory blog post. For more of my food stories please follow this link to Inside Special Fork.

Sandy
Co-Founder, Special Fork

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Happy Holidays from Special Fork

By Sandy Hu

Special Fork bloggers will be on vacation beginning next week, to enable each of us to spend time with family and friends through the holidays. We’ll return January 2 with a look back at the best of Special Fork from 2011; all bloggers will return beginning January 9 with new recipes and fresh insights.

While there are no new blog postings, remember to check our database of recipes for your everyday cooking and holiday needs.

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A Persian Feast

By Marilyn Hunter

Not every home cooked meal has to be eaten in our own home. Last night we went to our friend’s apartment for a Persian Feast. Her apartment is no ordinary place; rather it’s perched on a high floor of a skyscraper with spectacular views of the ocean, mountains and downtown city lights of Los Angeles.

Sweet spices, fragrant rice and roasted meats wafted down the elevator shaft for a delicious welcome long before we arrived on her floor. Persian meals are well-balanced affairs with salad, vegetables, piles of fresh herbs, pickles, walnuts, feta cheese and of course the famous rice dishes.

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Taking Leftover Turkey South of the Border

By Katie Barreira

It can be hard to gobble up all of those Thanksgiving leftovers. Well in Spanish, turkeys say gluglú gluglú and if you’re still picking your way through a holiday bird and just can’t bear the thought of another turkey sandwich, here’s a Mexican-inspired recipe that will have you gluglú-ing every last bite.

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Some Quick Meals to Survive the Holiday Frenzy

By Sandy Hu

From Thanksgiving until the New Year, there are never enough hours in the day to get ready for the holidays.  While you’re trimming the tree, shopping for gifts, baking cookies and preparing to host parties, the daily cooking still must get done.

Special Fork, a mobile recipe website, was built to solve what to cook at 4 p.m. when you haven’t yet decided what’s for dinner.  While spur-of-the moment decision-making is fine most of the year, during the holiday frenzy, it’s good to have some quick meals in mind for the week so you can plan ahead and stock up on the ingredients you’ll need.

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