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Category Archives: Forking Thoughts
Showing Off
Showing Off is just to show you that I am still cooking and baking. I’m not doing as many new recipes but all the cooked or baked foods that you see are a recipe on this site.
Up above are Sesame, Date, and Banana Cupcakes. Boy did these go fast at a gathering I went to.
Fried potato pierogi and chocolate Bouchons with chocolate frosting and drizzled with ganache ….These went really quick too.
I made butternut squash cinnamon buns and with the leftover dough I stuffed, rolled, and filled it with cinnamon and brown sugar and drizzled it with chocolate sauce. These all went.
Chipotle Rice Corn Cheddar stuffed Peppers. Lots of compliments and these went fast.
Baked Salmon Mousse Balls with Orange Ginger Sauce that sit in little cracker cups also got gobbled up.
I bet these will go fast too! and I added some extra cookies I had in my freezer.
Enjoy!!! and that was Showing Off!
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Pizza Rolls – Recipe Idea
I got the idea for pizza rolls after I made butternut squash cinnamon rolls. I just winged a focaccia type dough, rolled it thin, topped it with leftover lasagna cheese filling and some sauce and rolled it just like cinnamon buns. Then I sliced a little off and put each sliced in a non stick sprayed cupcake pan and topped the tops with a little bit of pizza seasoning and a little bit of shredded parmesan. In about 30 minutes at 350F give or take they were done. You can get my ideas for pizza, focaccia, and butternut squash cinnamon rolls here. I got lots of compliments on them and everyone loved them and gobbled them down. My husband said that he could eat them all day long.
Everyone will love them and they make a great appetizers for entertaining.
Enjoy!!!
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Notable Dish Of The Week – Pork Belly Nom Pang from Nom Pang Las Vegas NV
It’s very rare that I will pick one of my husband’s favorite dishes but I am picking this dish for good reason. He said that this sandwich was amazing! He said that the pork belly was incredible. Even the roll was amazing with the right crunch and just right fluffy interior. He said that this sandwich was so out of the ordinary very good that it might be impossible to order anything else from this restaurant. (it is a baguette sandwich. Normally comes with a spread of mayo (but left off at my husband’s request. It also contains cucumber, scallions, cilantro, pickled carrot, daikon, jalapeño, and that spectacular pork belly .) So……That is good reason to make the Pork Belly Nom Pang from Nom Pang the notable dish of the week!
Nom Pang
4275 N Rancho Dr Las Vegas NV
702-268-8288
I have not found a website for Nom Pang. At the moment (subject to change so give them a call) they are open 8am-6pm 7 days a week.
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The Absolute FORKING WORST Potato Chip Ever – FORKING THOUGHTS
The ABSOLUTE FORKING WORST POTATO CHIPS that I ever tried were Christie’s Sweet & Spicy Habanero super natural potato chips.
YUK!
They taste burnt and are too FORKING HOT and burn and are painful to eat.
The bag I got was not edible to me. I honestly don’t think anyone would ever manufacture something so horrible. Maybe that is why Sprouts Grocery was selling them for .99cents a bag?
Those were my FORKING THOUGHTS I doubt anyone’s Forking Thoughts will differ.
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Notable Dinner of the Week – Bramare Las Vegas NV and is Worth a Fork!
The Notable Dinner of the Week was from Bramare in Las Vegas. It’s an Inspired Italian Restaurant that serves seasonal Tapas Style (tasty small plates). It’s located about ten minutes away from the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada.
The plate above is a small plate called Striped Sea Bass Crudo – Sea Bass, Fennel, Orange, Pickled Chilies, Calabrian Mayo.
Pork Belly Agrodolce – (small plate) – Pork Belly, Polenta, Chilie Oil, Chives
Caponata – (small plate ) – Braised Eggplant, Pine Nuts, Capers, Bread Points (I was told that it takes three days to prepare the eggplant for this dish)
Ora King Salmon – (Medium Plate) Salmon, Chickpea Puree, Radicchio, Salsa Verde (The salmon was prepared to perfection here)
Funghi Fritti – (small plate) – Mushrooms, Garlic, Chili Sauce, Pecorino (pretty darn yum)
Broccolini – (small plate) – Black Garlic Cream, Bread Crumbs, Pecorino (This plate is FORKING CRAZY GREAT!)
Bramare is Worth a Fork! and was the notable dinner of the week!
Bramare
3900 Paradise Rd Las Vegas NV
702-342-2111
www.Bramare.com
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PRINGLES – Everything Bagel VS Hot Honey
I found several interesting flavors of Pringles Potato Chips at my local Walmart Grocery so I decided to try the Everything Bagel and The Hot Honey Pringles Potato Chips. I was more excited about the everything bagel because that flavor I never saw in a potato chip before……..I give it a try.
I sniff it and it smells weird……..
It doesn’t taste anything like an everything bagel……..How on EARTH did anyone anywhere approve this flavor?………..it actually it taste sort of like margarine. ICK! Disappointed because I wanted this to taste like an everything bagel….Oh Well…..(no onion, no sesame, no garlic, no poppy seeds….just a very weird sort of margarine taste…….:(
I taste the Hot Honey.
It has a much better potato flavor than most Pringles Chips and also is spicy hot…(but not crazy hot) and has a natural sweetness that taste like honey. The Hot Honey Pringles are very good!
The Hot Honey Pringles is the Winner by a LONG Shot!
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Notable Dish of The Week – Golden Pouches from Lemongrass & Lime Las Vegas NV
The Golden Pouches from Lemongrass & Lime are so darn tasty that everyone will like them. My husband hates curry but still thinks these things are delicious….and THEY ARE! They are rice paper that is stuffed with mashed potatoes and they sit on a very good massaman curry sauce and are topped with some crispy shallots.
The Notable Dish of the Week was the Golden Pouches from Lemongrass & Lime.
Lemongrass & Lime
8431 Farm Rd Las Vegas NV
702-566-4727
www.LemongrassandLime.com
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Showing Off
All the food pictured has a recipe that you can find here. These are some things I prepared for gatherings.
Up above are sweet potato pierogi and chocolate chip cookies (some had almonds)
Pizza (slightly under so I can re-heat nice)
Potato and Cheese Pierogi and Butter and Sesame cookies
Apple pies, corn souffle puddings, corn cookies
Potato Cannoli’s
Chipotle Rice Corn & Cheddar Stuffed Peppers with Potato String Crust (my recipe is here and also was featured on the front page of the food section of a Phoenix News Paper years ago by the food critic they had at the time. This time I used mini bell peppers instead of jalapeños and slightly less chipotle sauce to make them slightly milder. Don’t mean to brag but these are FORKING AWSOME!
and I’m just showing off!
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The Notable Dinner of The Week – Rang’s Cocina Moderne Las Vegas NV – Worth a Fork!
Rang’s Cocina Moderne is a full service Restaurant that serves a combination of Spanish, Italian, Asian Foods. Rang herself does most of the cooking and her husband Benedict does most of the serving. I’ve been here a bunch of times and on every visit any dish we’ve tried has been prepared to perfection. This restaurant has been featured in the July 3rd 2024 issue of Las Vegas Weekly and the Chef is also currently nominated for an award by the N.R.A. (Nevada Restaurant Association).
Tonight we had the Dulong.
This is embellished whitebait fish on grilled baguette slices.
My husband enjoyed the Chorizo Potato Croquettes.
Tonight I had the Chilean Sea Bass in a lemon coconut soy sauce.
And my husband enjoyed the real style Carbonara.
EVERYTHING Here at Rang’s Cocina Moderne is always delicious and prepared perfect.
Rang’s Cocina Moderne is Worth a Fork!
WORTH A FORK!
Rang’s Cocina Moderne
5900 W Charleston Blvd Las Vegas NV
725-214-1188
www.RangsCocina.com
