I make pizza dough often and bagel dough is similar but heavier with an added secret ingredient (malt flour) You also need a stand mixer to make this dough. I thought this would come out best making the dough day one and boiling and baking the bagels day two. I don’t mean to brag but these bagels really did come out FORKING AMAZING. At the moment they are the best bagels me or my husband has tasted in all of Vegas and in all of the Phoenix area.
Ingredient for up to 50 mini bagels
Dough
2 3/4 cup 110F filtered water
2 Tablespoons honey
1 pack dry active yeast (2 1/4 teaspoons)
1 teaspoon sugar
6 3/4 cups bread flour
2 Tablespoon course sea salt
2 Tablespoons malt flour
Boiling water to start the cooking process for the bagels
add 2 Tablespoons honey
2 Tablespoons baking soda
Bagel toppings –
You also need to add sesame seeds
Poppy seeds
Everything bagel mix
non stick spray
Two day directions
Have your 110F water ready in a tub or bowl. Add the sugar, 2 T. honey and the yeast to that water and mix well and cover with a lid or plastic wrap. It need about ten minutes to make a foamy top.
In your mixer add the flour, malt flour, and salt. Use dough hook.
After water is foamy then you can add it to the flours.
The directions for my Kitchen Aid Mixer say not to use above speed number two with the dough hook so I did mine on speed number 2 for ten minutes. Depending on your brand of flour the recipe can be up to two tablespoons light or heavy with the flour or water. YOU NEED to look at the dough and decide it it needs slightly more water or more flour. The dough needs to stick together and pull away from the bowl.
Put the dough in a tub(s) or Bowl (s) and cover with lid or plastic wrap. Refrigerate over night.
DAY TWO
Cut the dough in quarters. Start with one quarter and roll it as long as your cutting board. Then cut that dough in half longways so you have two long thinner doughs and roll it smooth.
You need a couple sheet pans sprayed lightly with non stick spray.
For mini bagels you need to wrap dough around two fingers.
Then squish the ends into the dough.
Keep going.
Now you need your boiling water with the baking soda and honey added.
You also need your bagel toppings set up.
Pan of sesame seeds
Pan of poppy seeds
Pan of everything bagel mix
You also need to set your oven on air fry.
I boiled the bagels only maybe two minutes after they floated
Then they got dipped on both sides with seeds and back on the sprayed sheet pans t
They went in my oven set at air fry for only 10 minutes.
My first ones I made too small and were super mini. These I only wrapped around one finger.
Not perfect but they taste amazing.
Did a bit better with my 2nd batch with the dough wrapped around two fingers.
Little Avalon Cafe is a casual coffee and healthy eats sort of place with three locations in Las Vegas Nevada. The newest North Decatur Blvd location (as of this posting) is not yet listed on their website. You come here for coffees, lattes, breakfast, all kinds of heathy bowl meals, fancy toasts, salads, smoothies, sandwiches, and even fish and chips.
It’s casual. You order and pay at the counter. They either call your name when something is ready and sometimes they run some things out to you as they are ready.
You can seat yourself on the community patio.
Or inside at a table or the counter.
I thought that the strawberry mix salad sounded good so I tried it with added salmon.
The salmon is grilled nicely with nice grill marks.
It’s also prepared surprisingly perfect with a moist medium center.
The soft greens and strawberries are nice and fresh and taste good.
But my salad is missing the candied walnuts.
It does have the quinoa but it is such a small sprinkle of quinoa that it just gets caught in your teeth. (I doubt it even amounts to a teaspoon of quinoa).
Still a good salad but missing the candied walnuts and not enough quinoa to be satisfying.
My husband tried the Philly Cheesesteak with Waffle Fries.
The sandwich is on a good quality sourdough seeded roll that is generously (maybe too generously) slathered with butter. The shaved ribeye is nicely caramelized and tastes good with the onions and bell peppers but HARDLY CONTAINS ANY CHEESE. It’s still a good sandwich but slightly disappointing with the lack of Cooper Sharp Cheese. I do note that the waffle fries are very good and are fluffy inside, freshly made and nicely seasoned.
Tres Tacos Birria De Res Food Truck is located at the Murphy Express Gas Station (6035 Losee Rd) in North Las Vegas Nevada 4pm-? Tuesdays-Sundays. They offer a limited menu of Mexican Foods.
There is no seating so you do takeout or stand at a shallow table.
On our first visit we just shared street sized double shelled chicken tacos (without the sour cream).
We were very surprised on how good the chicken tacos were. They were well packed with flavorful moist chicken.
We went back and my husband tried one of each taco they offer. (without the sour cream)
Top left – chicken taco
Top right – adobada (beef)
bottom left – asada
bottom right – birria
All were at least good. A fav might be the adobada?
I had three. (without the sour cream)
Left to right birria, chicken, asada. All good. Like the birria and chicken best.
We also shared some Mexican Rice and Beans.
On another visit my husband tried a quesabirria taco and said that it really was very VERY good!
Tres Tacos Birria De Res seems to be Worth a Fork!
Worth a Fork!
Tres Tacos Birria De Res
6035 Losee Rd North Las Vegas NV (in the Murphy Express parking lot)
725-321-2718
I haven’t found a website for this business but they do have a Facebook Page.
The Lamb Boulevard location of Seventy Six Station Casino offers a 24/7 bar, gaming, and restaurant that also offers all day breakfast. They also offer a mostly American Menu of various lunch and dinner choices.
So far everything has been at least good (except for the salmon because it was over cooked and not flavored well)
It looks like the typical 24/7 bar, gaming and food places that we have all over town. With lots of big screen TVs and a combination of bar seating, traditional seating and high tops.
So far we’ve tried-
Poblano Rings (not on current menu)Filet Tips Salmon (only dish so far that I wouldn’t recommend)
Fish and Chips
American Burger with Onion Rings
Smokehouse Salad with BBQ Chicken
Pot Roast Melt with Tator Tots
So far everything was at least good (except the salmon)
Seventy Six Lamb by Station Casinos is Worth a Try!
We went to the Great American Foodie Fest this week but my best taste of the week was a chicken sandwich that came from a food truck that was at the Henderson Art Festival called Good Hood.
Hot Honey Chicken Sando – Fried Chicken served with brined chillies in honey with pepper jack cheese, arugula, tomato, and signature sauce on a toasted brioche bun
It was just a really GREAT Juicy delicious sandwich packed with layers of flavors. Actually this was my husband’s sandwich and I only had a bite but it was amazing.
The food I tried at the Great American Foodie Fest wasn’t bad but it didn’t blow me away. (keep in mind that I wasn’t able to try much there because portions were full size so we got done fast)
In other FOOD News –
May 15 NADC (Not A Damn Chance) Burger opens – 124 S 6TH Street
May 16 Flavors of Aloha Festival – Craig Ranch Park
May 16 With Love Always (smash Bbrgers and custard) Red Rock Casino
May 16 Tailgate Beach Club – Mandalay Bay – Snoop Dog is expected to preform
May 19 Zippy’s – 5485 Camino Al Norte – NORTH Las Vegas
Till May 31 Michelin Starred and James Beard Awarded – Alinea POP UP – Belaggio – Micheal Mina Restaurant
May 31 Last day for MGM Grand Buffet
Spring? Bartho’s (beer bar) 1563 S Commerce Street
Spring? Cobra Clutch Cocktail Bar 1201 S Main Street
Spring? Wings Korean Chicken 5105 S Fort Apache Rd
Spring? Everything Philly & Co (ghost kitchen) 110 S Rainbow Blvd
Spring? Whole Lotta Sweets Cafe 5695 E Charleston Blvd
Spring? Sizzle Steak Burger 3585 S Fort Apache Rd
Summer? Siegel’s 1941 (Breakfast & Lunch) Alex Steakhouse (same spot for dinner) El Cortez
August 26 Michelin Guild Southwest Ceremony – INVITATION ONLY – Fontainebleau
Fall? Stix Asian Food Hall – Uncommons
And in Silly and or Cute Food News – It’s HOT here so my dogs got a car ride to In-N-Out Burger and ate the burger at home.
My local Sprouts Grocery had a sale on a selection of Maeve Chocolate Bars on sale so I picked what sounded like what was the most interesting flavor that day. It was called Dirt Pile Rich Dark Chocolate Bar. It said that it was made of Dark Chocolate, Mini Chocolate Chips, Crunchy Cookies, and Cocao Nibs.
Sounds good
I open it up…..it’s slightly broken….Maybe that is why it was reduced so much?
Take a piece
When you just eat it then it’s hard to tell what is in the chocolate.
When you let it dissolve in your mouth then you clearly can identify cookie crumbs and the bitter cocao nibs. I didn’t identify mini chocolate chips and I think maybe they just melted into the bar.
The bar does have a nice rich chocolate flavor and isn’t waxy. It’s good but also small. I wouldn’t pay too much for it.
Not bad and Worth a Try!
Those were my FORKING Thoughts on the Maeve Dirt Pile Rich Dark Chocolate Bar. I do note that your FORKING THOUGHTS may indeed differ.
Phoe Aimie is a full service Vietnamese Restaurant located in North Las Vegas Nevada. They offer twenty varieties of pho (normally a beef noodle soup). Some of the other offerings are – appetizers, vermicelli plates, rice dishes, and noodle dishes. They also offer soft beverages, Vietnamese Iced coffee, and beer.
Someone usually seats you as soon as you walk in.
It’s an Asian atmosphere inside with large Asian urns, bamboo, and hanging lanterns.
You might want to start off with something like the potstickers. You can order chicken or pork and they come out crispy.
Chicken Potstickers
You will probably order a pho.
#17 Pho T Chin with Rare Steak Brisket Pho with added Meatballs #27 Pho Sate (Spicy Peanut Soup) with rare steak and noodles
A few of the other dishes that you might want to try –
Flowing Tide Pub 8 is a 24/7 Bar, Gaming, and Restaurant Type of place that is located in the Centennial Part of Las Vegas Nevada. It looks very similar to most of the other 24/7 bar, gaming, restaurant places with a big bar in the middle and lots of big screen TVs. They offer many of the usual foods that you get in these kinds of places. They offer all day breakfast, sandwiches, burgers, salads, pastas, entrees and more.
This one has bar seating, high top table seating, high booths, and some sofa seating. I noticed one small traditional table by one of the doors. People under 21 are not allowed in.
We started by sharing an appetizer called Caulifire (spicy cauliflower)
It came with a sauce described as creamy gorgonzola with cilantro. Whatever it all was everything had good flavors to it. The cauliflower did run very spicy. I needed to use the creamy sauce to eat it. I liked the flavors but the cauliflower was a soft and maybe overcooked.
I tried the pacific salmon for dinner.
I asked for a medium cook on the salmon. It’s not medium but is moist so I’m happy enough. Tastes like mostly butter and dill. The vegetables seem fresh but are slightly over cooked and are very soft. The rice is tasty.
My husband tried the fish (cod) and chips.
It was mostly good. Liked the blue cheese slaw and fries. Liked the fish but the batter was soft like cake and not crispy.
Great American Foodie Fest took place in Desert Breeze Park in Las Vegas Nevada May 8, 9, &10 2026. General Admission was $10 to get in plus the cost of food and drink. One of the VIP options was $45. but included trips to five food trucks.
They were organized in a strange way that was a mess.
We had to wait in one line to get wrist bands and then jump into another line to get in. Then we choose VIP and had to wait in a third line to get our food tickets.
What I didn’t know was that only certain food trucks offered the VIP food.
and you needed your cell phone to figure this out.
The seating was limited and filled up fast. It protected you from the 100F heat we had today.
They were playing LOUD older music. I heard an EXTRA LONG version of Rod Steward’s – Do You Think I’m Sexy followed by Abba’s Dancing Queen.
First Bites were –
Birria La Paz – Fish Taco and Shrimp Taco – Actually very tasty
Next was
A slice of plain pizza for me and a slice of pepperoni for my husband from – Sincity Pizza
and I was kinda full so we finished with 1/2 a ice cream filled doughnut.
from Yonutz
I now know that I will never purchase tickets in advance and also will just do general admission because I didn’t get my VIP’s money’s worth. I also didn’t try other food trucks that I might have enjoyed more because I already paid for a much smaller VIP selection.
