Back in the old days……..(not so long ago)…..You only needed your shoppers card to get your supermarket discount sale items.
Besides using your shopper’s card…….several years back they added an annoying digital add on to get discounted sale prices.
Now there is another new choice for discounts.
Now we suffer with Delivery or Drive up and go prices.
UGH!!!!!
And That’s The Forking Truth
Bazaar Mar is a Seafood Tapas Restaurant with Spanish Embellishments by multi award wining and Michelin Stared Chef and Restauranteur Jose Andres and Team. This week it was quite hard to pick the notable dish since almost any from Bazaar Mar could be the Notable dish. A close choice for me would have been the mini fish shaped sandwich on a special hallow bread called bagel and lox. It was really exciting but the Japanese Peaches with za’atar were also extra exciting.
The little green fruits are the Japanese Peaches. The plate also contains stracciatella cheese, hazelnuts, little crunchy bites, fresh green leaves, and za’atar.
You are suppose to gather one of each on your spoon to eat it.
It’s so interesting…..So different……It’s also light and refreshing.
The Japanese Baby Peaches from Bazaar Mar is the Notable Dish of The Week!
Bazaar Mar (located in The Shops at Crystals)
3720 Las Vegas Blvd S Las Vegas NV
702-803-1100
www.TheBazaar.com
Bramare is a newly opened modern Italian Inspired restaurant located about ten minutes from the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. They serve incredible dishes and I was torn between three dishes they served me. They served the most amazing salmon collar I ever had anywhere. The only reason that isn’t the notable dish of the week is because the cucumber salad they paired with the salmon collar was good but was a bit stronger with flavors and was a little too strong for the fish. The other crazy great dish was the broccolini that had taste and textures like no other……I went with the Funghi Fritti because it was absolutely perfect and had maybe the most going on with it. It was these unusual honshimeji mushrooms that were lightly coated and fried with a crisp but extra thin coating. They were dressed with a garlic Chile sauce and also were embellished with pecorino cheese. This is a really great dish that almost anyone would enjoy.
The Notable Dish of the week was the Funghi Fritti from Bramare.
Bramare
3900 Paradise Rd Las Vegas NV
702-342-2111
www.Bramare.com
Showing Off is just to show you that I am still cooking or baking things.
Up above is a plain pizza with a good amount of fresh mozzarella on it.
Next is a slightly different onion galette. I used asiago cheese and added seeds and flake sea salt to the ends of the crust.
Below are spaghetti cupcakes
Next are-
Baked Salmon Mousse Balls and I also made a Mandarin Ginger Sauce to go with them and they sit on these cute little cracker bowls.
Sweet Potato Hand Pies
From the leftover sweet potato filling I just added an egg, more sugar, flour, baking powder, baking soda, pomegranate, and a few chocolate chips, and then embellished the tops.
Sweet potato bites with pomegranate and chocolate chips
Lightly Pickled Deviled Eggs
I packaged them like this.
That was a little bit of showing off.
I noticed these Savoursmiths Truffle Rosemary Potato Chips for around $6.99 a bag at my local Sprouts Grocery. They became discontinued and were marked down to a $1. a bag so I decided to give them a try.
The bag is marked Vegan and the ingredients don’t seem too far out so they seem safe to try.
I open the bag and take a whiff.
They smell strange…………Maybe a little like a herbal soap?
I pour some out.
The chips differ in size from small to large in size and do appear to have bubbly layers in the chips……
Texture-wise the chips are amazing. Crisp but not too crisp with layers also dry and not oily.
but-
The chips are coated very heavy with powders and are over seasoned. They even seem cheesy but cheese is not listed in the ingredients.
Between the cheesy taste, mushroom, onion, garlic, thyme, rosemary, truffle it is all too much and is far too powdery to enjoy.
Those were my FORKING Thoughts on Savoursmiths Truffle and Rosemary Chips.
Your FORKING Thoughts may indeed differ.
I used to love M&M’s Candies. I grew up enjoying the original and peanut varieties and latter I enjoyed the almond variety. Over the decades these candies changed things up and also introduced new flavors. Some I liked and some I didn’t care for……It’s been a very long time since I found a new flavor so I gave these Pumpkin Pie M&M’s a try.
WOW! It says on the front of bag ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR ………how good can that be?……..
Anyways
The M&M’s are different colors (Orange, Brown, White) and different sizes? Regular and mega?
I taste some…….I taste some more……
These are just too fake tasting to identify.
They sure DON’T TASTE ANYTHING LIKE PUMPKIN PIE
But even worse……
They don’t taste like chocolate either….
They are kinda sweet but not too sweet like some of them….
They just don’t taste like anything familiar.
Those were my FORKING THOUGHTS on Pumpkin Pie M&M’s I do note that YOUR FORKING THOUGHTS may indeed differ.
This week was another difficult week to decide on what plate to pick. All the dishes from Basilico stood out and were detailed like no other. I went with the Busiate Teapanesi (long twisted pasta) because this really was the first time that I was wowed by a pasta dish. The pasta alone was unlike any other….The fish was more like a very good tuna and the flavors were just right….There was something completely different about this dish that was exciting. I do note that if my husband was picking the notable dish that he might have picked the Lamb Ragu Rigatoni dish because he just kept saying how great that one was……He really enjoyed the flavors in that dish too.
The Busiate Trapanesi long twisted pasta with swordfish and Romesco sauce is the notable dish of the week from Basilico Ristorante Italiano. I do also have to note that this dish was from one of a weekly tasting menu that they were offering.
6111 S Buffalo Dr Las Vegas NV
702-534-7716
www.BasilicoLV.com
We try to take the dogs out to eat at least once a week but it has been too hot outside to dine out with dogs in Las Vegas so we are dining in. This is a combination of dining in with dogs and taking them for a ride to get a cheeseburger.
We took the dogs to a Jack In The Box and brought the burger home.
They get to eat about 1/3 of the burger without bread as a treat today and the rest over the next two days.
The dogs never refuse a cheeseburger!
The dogs also got to eat Thai Food from Amazing Thai in North Las Vegas.
They enjoyed Chicken Spicy Basil and Salmon Panang.
Then from Born and Raised Sports Bar in North Las Vegas the dogs enjoyed part of a Texas Burger.
and chicken from their signature salad.
Today the dogs got a cheeseburger from Five Guys.
Today we took the dogs to the In-N-Out to bring home a cheeseburger for them. They know the cheeseburger is coming from someplace inside.
Now at home they get to eat some.
We took out a cheesesteak WITHOUT onions (because onions are toxic to dogs) for the dogs from Those Guys Pies. We just give them some meat and cheese.
That was dining in with dogs for August 2024. We hope that you’ve enjoyed and we hope to see you next month.
It was difficult to pick one notable dish of the week since Safta really killed it with three notable dishes this week. The hummus could have been the notable dish simply because of it’s high quality taste and texture that you seldom get anywhere. Also the dessert sampler called Safta’s Delights is great enough to the notable dish. I went with the Salatim Platter that is a bunch of dips, spreads, vegetables, and fresh milled fluffy wheat pita because it was full of many delicious tastes and textures that are amazing. I really think just about anyone out there would love this platter.
The Salatim Platter
It’s one of the best, most delicious plates that you can find on the Las Vegas Strip.
Worth a Fork!
The Salatim Platter from Safta 1964 By Alon Shaya is a Notable Dish.
Safta 1964 By Alon Shaya Wynn Encore Las Vegas (This restaurant is a pop up or temporary restaurant and is expected to close before April 2025)
3131 Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas NV
702-770-5310
www.WynnLasVegas,com
Showing off is just to show that I am still in the kitchen. This week it was pizza, lemon poppy seed cakes, and brownies. I think most people like the pizza best. It gets inhaled real fast and I get the most Thank Yous for it.
Chocolate Chip Biscotti with Chocolate Drizzle
Pistachio Parm Crostini with Cheese/Onion Spread embellished with Romesco (red pepper/ almond sauce)
For at home I made two roast beefs. (of course the recipe can be found here) My husband hand slices them for me. The bigger one came out slightly more rare.
potato stuffed potatoes and veggie cheese bread slices.
Chocolate Hazelnut Crostada
