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Dining IN With DOGS Las Vegas NV August 2024

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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.

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In Memory of Louie 5-5-2001 – 3-3-2017

Notable Dish Of The Week – Salatim Platter from Safta 1964 By Alon Shaya Las Vegas NV – Worth a Fork!

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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!

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

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Showing Off

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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

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Notable Dish Of The Week – Marlin Taco from Mariscos El Ancla – North Las Vegas NV – Worth a Fork!

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The Marlin Taco from Mariscos El Ancia is the first one that I have tasted that taste the same as Marlin Tacos I’ve tried in Jalisco Mexico. It just has the right taste. The right amount of smoke. It also comes dressed with the same sauce. It’s also generous in size and also is delicious.

The Marlin Taco from Mariscos El Ancla is the Notable Dish of The Week and is Worth a Fork!

Worth a Fork!

Mariscos El Ancla

3960 W Craig Road North Las Vegas NV

702-291-8131

I have not found a website and have not found them on Facebook.

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Notable Dish Of The Week – Wagyu Pastrami on Rye from La Cantine Sandwich Shop

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The WAGYU PASTRAMI sandwich from La Cantine Sandwich Shop is FORKING AMAZING! ….I do note it’s easy to order the wrong sandwich here because they offer TWO different pastrami sandwiches. They offer a pastrami reuben that cost $8.00 LESS than the Wagyu Pastrami Sandwich….YOU WANT TO ORDER THE WAGYU PASTRAMI SANDWICH.

Wagyu Pastrami Sandwich

Not east cost style rye but the hand cut Wagyu Pastrami makes up for it. The pastrami is a mix of just the right delicious flavors, right smoke, and right fat. It’s embellished with kraut, dressing, and melty Swiss.

It’s a really GREAT Pastrami Sandwich.

The hand cut Wagyu Pastrami on Rye from La Cantine Sandwich Shop is The Notable Dish of The Week!

La Cantine Sandwich Shop

3250 Tenya Way Las Vegas NV

702-749-7400

I have not found a website for La Cantine.

They are on Facebook but are NOT ACTIVE There.

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Notable Dish Of The Week – 10 oz. Ground In House Prime Rib Burger from Carved Prime Rib at The Cannery Hotel Casino North Las Vegas NV

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North Las Vegas is lucky to have one of the better burgers of Vegas from Carved Prime Rib at The Cannery. The burger has a nice beefy prime rib type of taste that most burgers don’t have. It is also a very large burger and some people will get two meals out of it. The burger comes topped with cheese sautéed mushrooms and onions. Lettuce, sliced pickles, and tomato comes on the side. Actually the burger does come with cheese (Swiss) but substitutions are allowed and my husband usually gets cheddar or American Cheese on his burger. Skinny fries come on the side in a hot heated bowl.

The Notable Dish of the Week is the 10 oz. Ground in House Prime Rib Burger from Carved Prime Rib at The Cannery Hotel/Casino.

Carve Prime Rib at The Cannery Hotel/Casino

2121 E Craig Rd North Las Vegas NV

702-507-5777

www.Cannery.BoydGaming.com

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Here’s some potato stuffed potatoes and cookies. Today the potatoes were topped with brown butter, scallions, and thyme.

The next week I made 2 pizzas.

One was fresh mozzarella, smoked scamorza, parmesan, sauce, home made pesto, fresh basil

The other was spiced butternut squash with cannoli cream, pistachios, pistachio cream

They went real fast……

Made rye rolls and cocktail sized rye rolls.

Cocktail Rye Rolls

I stuffed the tiny rye rolls with tuna/trout mousse and pickled onion.

I forgot to photo the next week but it was Macaroni and cheese stuffed potatoes and some brownies.

FORKING GREAT Fudgy Brownies

They all get gobbled down fast.

Just showing off some stuff I made recently.

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Notable Dish Of The Week – The Truffle Garlic Mushroom Brie Taco with Spicy Raspberry Sauce from The Meat Wagon Las Vegas NV

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We both enjoyed our meals from a Unique American restaurant in Las Vegas called The Meat Wagon.

I tried an assorted Taco Plate ( mushroom, fish, chicken). ((It comes with house made chips and are on house made grilled pita breads))

All three tacos were delicious but the most out of the ordinary taco was the –

Truffle, garlic, mushroom, brie, taco with spicy raspberry sauce.

I’ll be honest…….since I tell the FORKING Truth….I don’t really get the truffle but the combination is so oddball and so unusually delicious I have to give it to this one.

The Notable Dish of the week was the Truffle, Garlic, Mushroom, Brie Taco with Spicy Raspberry Sauce from The Meat Wagon.

The Meat Wagon

7905 W Sahara Ave Las Vegas NV

725-735-7381

www.TheMeatWagon.US

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Notable Dish Of The Week – The House Made Bread & Ricotta Cheese from Monzu Italian Oven & Bar Las Vegas NV

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The House Made Bread with House Made Ricotta Cheese is a very special treat that you get when you dine at Monzu Italian Oven & Bar in Las Vegas Nevada.

The Delicious craft bread gets its unique developed taste from an all natural over three hundred year old family mother starter made from apricots. This very special bread takes five days to prepare.

Then you get to dip the crusty bread into the oil and perfectly seasoned creamy house made ricotta cheese.

YUM!!!!!!!!

The Notable Dish of the week. The House made Bread & Ricotta Cheese from –

Monzu Italian Oven & Bar

6020 W Flamingo Rd Las Vegas NV

702-749-5959

www.MonzuLV.com

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Squeeze Cheese, Chicken Liver & Peanut Butter are helpful to give Medication to difficult Dogs

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One of my dogs is older and is now on a lot of medications. This dog is difficult to give medication too. She even spits out pill pockets. She even spits out pill pockets without medication in them. When my last dog Louie was elderly and on lots of medications he was good with special doggy safe meatballs I used to make for him to hide pills. My current dog figured out that pills are inside the meatball so meatballs don’t work for her. The last few weeks chicken liver, squeeze cheese, and peanut butter are the only things that she will take pills in.

Here’s the squeeze cheese.

Squirt a small amount on your palm and insert pill.

Now squirt a little more to hide the pill.

Offer to dog.

Dog takes medication.

Then the slightly bigger pills I try to incase in Chicken Liver (just dump chicken livers from container into a baking dish in a preheated 350 degree F oven for around 30 minutes…you can season sparingly with a very small amount of sea salt and a very small amount of pepper)

Then I use squeeze cheese to coat the pill.

For bigger pills I use peanut butter.

I wrap the peanut butter around the pill and then offer to my patient.

Chicken Liver, Squeeze Cheese, and Peanut Butter are Helpful to give Medications to difficult dogs.

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