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Notable Dish Of The Week – Japanese Baby Peaches from – Bazaar Mar by Jose Andres – Las Vegas NV

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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.

Japanese Baby Peaches from Bazaar Mar

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

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Notable Dish of The Week – Funghi Fritti from Bramare – Las Vegas NV

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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

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Showing Off

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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.

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My FORKING Thoughts on Savoursmiths Truffle Rosemary Vegan Luxury English Potato Chips

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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.

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My Forking Thoughts on Pumpkin Pie M&M’s – Oy Veh

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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.

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Notable Dish Of The Week – Long Twisted Pasta with Swordfish & Romesco Sauce from Basilico Ristorante Italiano – Las Vegas NV

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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

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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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