Las Vegas & Beyond FOOD News

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Las Vegas Food News – The Most Notable Dish of the week was the Ligurian Focaccia from Matteo’s Ristorante Italiano. This was spectacular and is already one of the best dishes I’ve tasted in Las Vegas period. It’s really different. Ligurian Focaccia is seldom found on menus to begin with. If you do happen to find it then it is usually thin crackers filled with melted Italian cheese and the top might have some sort of embellishment like honey. At Matteo’s it was a sort of balloon bread that was filled with crescenza cheese. They offer three styles I picked the one that was embellished with mushrooms, asparagus, and squash blossoms. You just don’t know how great this is until you taste it because it is like eating delicious air……It’s so light and amazing!

It was a great week and I do need to mention a couple other notable dishes.

The North Sea Salmon also from Matteo’s Ristorante Italiano was the most masterfully prepared salmon I’ve tried in Las Vegas so far.

Best Salmon came from Matteo’s in the Palazzo Venetian

It was fresh and moist and prepared to a perfect silky medium with a great sear. It also had the most perfect crisp skin that was nicely seasoned and never got soggy and stayed crisp like a potato chip. You very rarely get salmon so masterfully prepared.

I have to say the Beer Battered Mushrooms from Las Vegas Brewing Company were also notable.

They were fried unusually well and also were delicious. These mushrooms were cooked perfect and seemed free of oil. They just had a nice very thin crisp on them and never got soggy or oily….They were magically fried.

No bad dishes this week!

Las Vegas Food News – Born and Raised on 1125 E Craig Road Closed. (this closure was not mentioned on the news or newspaper….as most local restaurant news is seldom mentioned)

Las Vegas Food News – Antojitos Mexicanos failed health inspection

Las Vegas Food News – Ummmm Maybe Spaghetti and Octopus Balls?

Las Vegas Food News – Beer Today and also Worth a Shot!

Las Vegas Food News – You gotta Lava Hawaii and Elvis

Las Vegas News – José Andrés opens his 7th Restaurant on the Las Vegas Strip this week!

Las Vegas Food News – Multi Concept Kosher Ghost Kitchen (ghost kitchen means no dining room- It’s pick up or delivery only)

Las Vegas Food News – Locals Only Menu at Bourbon Steak (It’s a secret….not published anywhere)

Las Vegas Food News – This September

Food News – Recalled Foods

Food News – I Cran-berry believe it.

Food News – Not Mush-Room here so space is next

Food News – Not Funny and this has happened to me several times at my local Smith’s

Weird Food Related News – Violent Cheesy Nacho Assault – Ummm doesn’t look like she said “Cheese” for her mugshot.

Dog Gone it Cute Food News – Actor Steve Schirripa (from the Sopranos, Blue Bloods, and more) Having a bowl of Spaghetti with his Birthday Dog!

That was just some of the Las Vegas & Beyond FOOD News

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FORKING Thoughts on Kitchen Aid Stand Mixers

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According to EVERYONE on the internet Kitchen Aid Stand Mixers are by far the best that any home cook can buy. I had mine around 15 or so years and noticed that it seems to make noises and gets so hot I think it might catch on fire. I read that the average age for a Ktchen Aid Mixer to last is about 15 years so maybe I’m due to replace it.

Recently I noticed that Kitchen Aid Mixers were on sale at Costco so I picked out a new one. When I picked it up I noticed that it isn’t as heavy as my old one……..?

I made a batch of dough and I wanted it to mix for ten minutes.

Then after 4 minutes it stopped.

I tried a few more times to start it up.

I returned it back to Costco. I still have my old Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer. Maybe it will work a few more times?

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A Taste of Skye Thai Grab & Go – Las Vegas NV – Worth a Try!

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Skye Thai Restaurant is a sort of Grab & Go Thai Restaurant located in the Centennial Area of Las Vegas Nevada. It’s very casual. You order and pay at the counter. You either take out or you can sit at one of the four tables in the restaurant.

They offer most of your usual Thai Favorites and a few dishes not so common at Thai Restaurants like Brussels Sprouts, Chicken Pho, and Pumpkin/Zucchini with Egg. Soft beverages are offered here. For dessert they offer Coconut Ice Cream with Roti and Banana Fritters. Whatever you order the food is served in to go containers. Also most of the dishes come with your choice of heat from 1-10. For my taste 6 is plenty hot and 4 is mildly hot but my husband likes #8.

So far we tried –

Egg Rolls

Brussels Sprouts
Pumpkin Zucchini with Egg
Pad Kra Pao

Green Curry with Chicken

Glass Noodle Salad (contains shrimp & pork)

Pad See Eiw (Crispy pork with noodles)

Pla Rad Prik (Crispy Fish in a slightly sweet chili sauce with green beans and crisp basil) Everything was good but this dish was my personal favorite so far.

Skye That Grab & Go is CERTAINLY Worth a try!

Skye Thai

9650 W Skye Canyon Park Dr Las Vegas NV

702-998-6647

I haven’t found a website for Skye That but they are listed on some take out sites.

Every THING is subject to change.

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A Taste of Lunch at Boom Bang Fine Food & Cocktails – Henderson NV

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Boom Bang Fine Food & Cocktails is an American Brasserie by former Top Chef and Joël Robuchon Chef Elia Aboumrad -Page and Husband, staff and others. If the chef or restaurant sounds familiar to you then perhaps you saw the chef on Food Network’s “24 in 24 Las Chef Standing” That is currently going on at Food Network.

The restaurant is stylish inside. There’s a reflective ceiling, cactus wallpaper adorns the walls. The tables are set with wine glasses and starter plates.

To one side is sort of breakfast counter.

To the other side is a traditional looking bar.

It looked so good when we walked in that we had to try the star bread (marinara, cheese, pesto, rosemary).

It’s a richer, softer, braided type of bread.

We also tried the buffalo cauliflower with C’s Rojo sauce.

Tasty….Not too hot…and Rich Chunky Blue Cheese Dressing on the side.

For my main I tried what they call Steak Fritas with salad or fries (I picked salad).

It’s a good sized portion. Most of the steak is tender….Only a few pieces on the ends I can’t chew. The salad is fresh and has a very good but plain dressing on it.

My husband got the French Dip.

The house made bread is outstanding…….It’s like eating bread in Philadelphia……….The meat is also a generous portion with good flavor that is tender. It also has some delicious caramelized onions……..but it needs a lot of the au jus to be moist. It also comes with horseradish cream, fries, and ketchup.

We also shared the lemon meringue tart.

The lemon curd is amazing but loose. The Italian meringue is good but loose like the filling. The crust is hard and substantial.

That was a taste of lunch at –

Boom Bang Fine Food and Cocktails

75 S Valle Verde Dr Henderson NV

702-478-6200

www.BoomBang.Restaurant

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My Trip to Sparrow & Wolf Las Vegas NV – HITS & Misses

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Sparrow & Wolf is a sort of fancy ever-changing Global Menu Type Restaurant in the Las Vegas Chinatown that is very close to the Las Vegas Strip. It’s dark but not too dark inside and also energetic.

We started off by sharing the Oxtail Hummus.

The Hummus came with naan bread and the hummus was embellished with shredded dry oxtail, crispy chickpeas and the tiniest amount of curry oil that was too small an amount to taste. (a miss because the hummus was very average and the oxtail was dry…..naan bread was also gummy)

Next was a Mango Crudo that came with trout, fish roe, and radish.

We also shared the Robiola Agnolotti. (Hit)

It had too much pickled ramp foam and chewy morel mushrooms. The flavors overpowered the robiola cheese. (MISS)

Our dinner was the Tile Fish for two.

This dish was delicious! It was lightly breaded and laced with epazote & santo and came with fava bean salsa verde. (Big HIT)

We also enjoyed the Honey Toast for dessert (Japanese milk bread, candied orange, cream cheese, blood orange sorbet, spiced Grand Marnier)

Hit

Some Hits and some Misses.

Sparrow and Wolf

4480 Spring Mountain Rd Las Vegas NV

702-790-2147

www.SparrowandWolfLV.com

Every THING is subject to change.

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Las Vegas & Beyond FOOD News

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The Best BITE of the week was the incredible melt in your mouth bite of wagyu beef from Ginza Izakaya Japanese Restaurant. It’s a neighborhood bite that tastes $$$$$ expensive. Sadly the worst bites of the week also came from the same restaurant. I should note that this restaurant has only been open a month and maybe is just not ready for prime time yet?

The worst bite of the week was the Hamachi Kama from Ginza Izakaya Japanese Restaurant. Usually the collar is the best part of the fish to eat. But here it might be considered a crime to over cook a collar that much. It was s flaming HOT it burnt my mouth and no wonder it was dry and stringy.

The Chicken Karaage (fried chocken appetizer) tasted floury and lacked any seasoning. And the dipping mayo on the side doesn’t help.

Las Vegas Food News – Sometimes terrorist go to jail and have to close their restaurants.

Las Vegas Food News – Come Hungry and leave fat.

Las Vegas Food News – lets Salsa and See!

Las Vegas Food & Drink News – Food Trucks, Tequila, and Cigars – Wheely Good?

Las Vegas Food News – Food Trucks and more to remember Polly Gonzalez

Las Vegas Food News – Maybe Spaghetti and Octopus Balls?

Las Vegas Drink News – Beer Today and Worth a Shot?

Food News – You gotta Lava Hawaii and Elvis

Food News – Well it might depend on how you look at it?

Below is an actual Whopper with a tail wagging customer.

Drink News – To Piss You Off that’s Un-Beer-liebable

Food News – It’s TOAST to Butter Days

Food News – Tomato Recall – Can we fix it with tomato paste?

Food News – If you can’t do soy then eating those beans might make you go oy!

Food News – Salsa-Rious Salsa Recall

Food News – Not all but some Oreo Cookies are BUGGED

Food News – A Big but little SUCKER

That was just some of the Las Vegas and Beyond FOOD News.

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Potato Pierogi Recipe 2nd UPDATE Based on Cooks Country Potato Pierogi Recipe

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Maybe due to the Egg Shortage Problems I really think that the eggs I buy are smaller and the dough recipe for Potato Pierogi comes out too dry. I altered the recipe so my dough will come out. My first update was only to make the potatoes the day before because I found that the pierogi were much easier to stuff with cold hard filling. This recipe will make around 20-30 pierogi. It will make up to 24 pierogi if you are a perfectionist and don’t reuse your dough ends. If you reuse dough ends you will get around 8 more pierogi but they will come out thicker no matter how good you roll the dough. (remember for best results the filling should be made the day before)

Ingredients for around 24 pierogi.

2 1/2 cups bread flour – dough

1 teaspoon baking powder – dough

1 cup sour cream – dough

2 eggs – dough

1 Tablespoon water – dough

1/2 teaspoon course sea salt – dough

1 pound potatoes – boiled in salted water and peeled and mashed well – filling

4 oz sharp cheddar – grated (or as much cheese as you feel like) – filling

2 Tablespoons butter – filling

sea salt to taste – filling

black pepper to taste – filling

white pepper to taste – filling

cayenne pepper to taste – filling

Directions

Get out your stand mixer and attach the dough hook. In the bowl goes the flour, baking powder, sour cream, eggs, water, and salt. Mix low to get it together and then – Mix on medium high 8 minutes.

(For best results the filling should be made the day before) For the filling in a large bowl combine the mashed potatoes, cheese, butter, and seasonings. Mix and mash well till smooth.

Take about 1/3 of the dough. Lightly flour the surface of table, board, or rolling sheet.

Add dough ball and cover with a sheet of plastic wrap and roll it as thin as possible. Cut 3 inch circles. Use a rolling pin and get the circles a little thinner.

Stuff each circle with a meatball size scoop of potato filling. Pinch them shut. Use a fork to get the pinched shut ends better.

Repeat till done.

Reuse dough ends only if you don’t mind them coming out thicker.

Boil pierogi till they float.

You can eat them now or take it a step further and either sauté them with caramelized onions or fry them in butter with some canola oil.

You can serve the pierogi with sour cream and or apple sauce if desired.

Potato Pierogi

A Special THANKS!!! To Cooks Country so I could do what I got here!

Enjoy!!!!!!!!

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Sushi Neko – AYCE Las Vegas NV – Very Good Rolls – Good Selection of Fish- Not so good chicken – Worth a Try!

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Sushi Neko is an all you can eat sushi restaurant in Chinatown in Las Vegas Nevada. It might be confusing to some to find this particular restaurant because they also have Neko Sushi Supreme a few doors down that opens an hour latter. They also have Neko Ramen next door and a new Neko (I think called Neko Snack) is opening up next to Neko Sushi Supreme. They are similar to the other all-you-can-eat sushi places but do offer a larger variety of fish than the all-you-can-eats outside of Chinatown.

Anyways –

We started out with –

Red Snapper Nigiri

Salmon Belly, Tuna, and Yellow Tail Nigiri

Fish was reasonably good in all the nigiri but the rice is over seasoned and loose and wet.

Chicken Karaage – unseasoned and hard chicken and tough like a car tire.

Salmon Collar – slightly over cooked but ok

Hawaiian Roll – BEST OF WHAT I TRIED HERE

spicy tuna, cucumber, tuna, avocado, spicy garlic ponzu

Spicy Tuna Roll – very good

Beef Bulgogi – infused with good flavors but all dried out

Shishito Pepper Skewers – Tasty and good!

Pork Belly – not the best

Ama Ebi – sweet raw shrimp

Sausage – slightly overdone but ok

Fried banana with vanilla ice cream and chocolate syrup. Cheap ice cream but ok

Well you get your money’s worth here.

Worth a Try!

Sushi Neko

5115 Spring Mountain Rd Las Vegas NV

702-247-4241

www.SushiNeko.Setrush.net

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Panevino Italian Grill & Deli & More – Las Vegas NV – All Reasonably Good – Worth a Try!

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Panevino is a large Bar, Fine Dining Italian Restaurant, Italian Deli, and Banquet Restaurant located not far from the Las Vegas Airport in Nevada.

Here’s part of the Deli.

Here’s the bar.

And here is part of the dining room. If you look to the left side in the picture below then you can see this restaurant has a view of the Las Vegas Strip.

It was our first visit to Panevino so the waiter said we get a complimentary balloon bread.

It was different and also tasty.

We also shared the Gorgonzola and Pear Salad. They were kind enough to split the salad on two plates for us.

For my main I tried the grilled Scottish Salmon with Roasted Potatoes and the Seasonal Vegetables.

It’s covered in a lemony parsley sauce. They didn’t ask how I wanted the fish done but to my surprise they prepared it just so to medium.

My husband tried the Trinity Ossobuco.

Everything was prepared just as it should be. It was also a very generous portion.

We tried dessert.

Here’s the Chocolate and Hazelnut Temptation.

The dessert was good but I thought it was odd that they garnished the plate with a frog.

Service was very professional and all the food we tried was reasonably good.

Panevino is certainly Worth a Try!

Worth a Try!

Panevino

246 Via Antonio Ave Las Vegas NV

702-222-2400

www.PanevinoLasVegas.com

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House Of Dutch Pot – For a taste of the Caribbean – Las Vegas NV – Worth a Fork!

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House Of Dutch Pot is a Caribbean Restaurant located around twenty minutes past the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. If it seems familiar to you then maybe you caught an episode of Guy’s Grocery Games on Food Network

and saw the chef of House Of Dutch Pot or maybe you caught the Diners Drive Inns and Dives also on Food Network and saw House of Dutch Pot?

Anyways –

They have a big screen TV inside and guess what channel it’s on…..Food Network.

Here’s the inside. I do warn you that the tables might be uncomfortably close to each other (they were the day we were there).

We started off with one of their new to the menu appetizers called stir fried vegetable wonton.

They are filled with stir fried vegetables and are tasty. They come with a dipping sauce that tastes similar to hoisin sauce.

For my main I had to try the jerk chicken.

WOW! The chicken is tender like butter and melts in the mouth. It’s infused with all kinds of flavors and some heat. To the side are cooling macaroni and cheese with steamed vegetables.

My husband tried the oxtail.

He said that they were delicious and very good. (I didn’t try because oxtails are too succulent for me and can’t handle the fat in them). his sides were tangy vinegary slaw and rice with peas.

Try House of Dutch Pot if you want a taste of the Caribbean.

Worth a Fork!

Worth a Fork!

House Of Dutch Pot

4255 S Durango Drive Las Vegas NV

702-485-3500

www.HouseOfDutchPotLasVegas.com

Every THING is subject to change.

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