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Dining Out With DOGS in Las Vegas NV – January 2024

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Dining out with dogs in Las Vegas is just a “Fluff” story. It all sort of started with my late dog Louie. He was elderly and came down with aggressive cancer. We were told that Louie probably only had three months to live….maybe up to 6 months…..Well Louie always loved eating and always loved going out to eat so I thought the nicest thing I could do for Louie was to take him out to eat as often as I could. The good news is that Louie made it another 17 months. Today I take my current dogs out to eat when I can and when the weather is right.

The dogs got to go to SNS Diner BBQ in North Las Vegas. They always love going here. You might have seen this restaurant on Food Network’s Diners Drive Inns and Dives.I got a two meat plate with chicken and brisket. My two sides were slaw and macaroni and cheese.

The dogs got to eat, brisket, chicken, macaroni and cheese.

The dogs also got some meats from my husbands 3 meat plate.

And they are back to me for more off my plate.

The Dogs always love going to SNS Diner BBQ.

3229 Losee Rd North Las Vegas NV – 702-269-9696

www.SNSDiner.com

The next week it was FORKING COLD and WINDY here so we took the dogs to an In-Out-Drive Thru

The Giant Aussie pushed the beagle/chihuahua out of his seat so SHE CAN OBSERVE.

Then they got to eat the cheeseburger at home because it was TOO FORKING COLD to sit at a table (I did try).

Look at them…..The Giant Aussie is smiling….The Beagle/Chihuahua is trying to inhale the burger threw the air.

The Giant Aussie is always first.

Now it’s the Beagle/Chihuahua’s turn.

I gave them about 1/3 of the cheeseburger. They will get the rest for snacks.

My dogs always welcome an In-And-Out Burger.

They also got to try Those Guys Pies. This restaurant was also featured on Diners Drive-inns and Dives on Food Network. This restaurant as the name implies offers pizzas, sandwiches, and Thrifty ice Cream.

We shared an Italian White Pizza (ricotta, mozzarella, broccoli rabe, garlic, caramelized onion, roasted tomatoes, lemon oil) with the sausage on the side for the dogs.

They also got beef dog biscuits from the dog biscuit vending machine that they have inside.

The dogs always enjoy Those Guys Pies!

5585 Simmons Street North Las Vegas NV

725-251-5826

www.ThoseGuysPies.com

That was Dining Out With DOGS in Las Vegas for January 2024. We hope you’ve enjoyed and we hope to see you next month.

The Forking Truth
In Memory of Louie 5-5-2001 – 3-3-2017

A little taste of Jerusalem Mediterranean Chef’s Table – Las Vegas NV – Kosher and Halal Offerings

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Jerusalem Mediterranean Chef’s Table is a full service family owned restaurant, bar, and catering business that is certified kosher and is also certified halal. This business is located close to the Las Vegas Strip and is also close to Chinatown. They offer appetizers like hummus, smoked eggplant carpaccio, shawarma tacos, and Moroccan stuffed cigars. Some of the other offerings are kebob skewers, Lebanese Chicken, 9-hour brisket, steaks, specials, and more.

Inside is a variety of seating. Partial booths, tables, bar in a nice rich modern setting. To the left of my photo is an open kitchen and to right is a large window that lets in bright light during the day.

The soup of the day was bean soup that was well seasoned.

The Pita breads are super fresh and super fluffy. The hummus is very creamy and is very mildly seasoned, It was adorned with cooked chick peas, olive oil, parsley and pickled onions.

The falafels are the moist inside herby type and were drizzled with tahini.

The falafels came with a tabouleh salad was very detailed and was made with parsley, mint, quinoa, tomatoes, onions, apricots, almonds, olive oil, and tahini.

The Moroccan cigars are slow roasted ground beef with caramelized onions wrapped up like taquitos with a VERY spicy harissa tahini sauce.

They don’t ask you how you like your burger here but the burger came out flavorful and juicy. It came on a garlic brioche grilled bun. It also came with lettuce, tomato, tempura onions, lots of pickles, tomatoes and seasoned fries with a BBQ Alfredo aioli. It’s all very good but very hard to eat. If you look close at the patty it is almost shaped like a ball. That was my only peeve here.

The house made macarons were very VERY good, and are a perfect sweet ending to any meal here.

They are busy at dinner time especially when conventions are in town. Reservations for dinner are recommended.

That was a little taste of Jerusalem Mediterranean Chef’s Table. It should be noted that kosher restaurants are not for everyone only because you must be understanding…..A lot is involved to bring you kosher meats. Kosher meats cost about three times of what non-kosher meat cost so that might be reflected in prices.

4825 W Flamingo Rd Las Vegas NV – 702-341-5555

www.JerusalemGrillVegas.com

Every THING is subject to change.

The Forking Truth

All’Antico Vinaio Las Vegas NV – Famous Italian Sandwiches Have Arrived called BEST IN THE WORLD

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Saveur Magizine named All’Antico Vinaio sandwiches as “BEST IN THE WORLD.”

The legendary Florence Italy Based sandwich shop recently opened in southwest Las Vegas (about 8 miles from the strip) in the Uncommons at Durango and the 215.

Opening weekend it was standing in line only and the line went around the block.

They offer over a dozen different sandwiches on schiacciata bread. About 10 of them contain pork. There’s one beef sandwich, one turkey sandwich, and 5 vegetarian sandwiches.

We waited in line and got to the counter in about an hour.

The owner in the red shirt is hard at work with his employees. They also only have one slicer to slice fresh the meat on sandwiches directly to the bread.

I read the reviews and I thought I’d like the vegetarian sandwich called The Broadway Best.

In the Schiacciata bread is tasty toasted pistachio cream, creamy stracciatella cheese, tangy sun-dried tomatoes, (it was suppose to be….) spicy zucchini, and bitter arugula. This is too much bread for me so I removed the top layer of bread and brought it home and ate the bottom layer folded over.

I had no idea that pistachio cream and the stracciatta cheese would be such a game changer in a sandwich…….It’s such a combination that you have to try…..They sort of messed up on the zucchini….It’s there but it is just squishy plain zucchini. If it was spicy I think this sandwich would have popped! It’s still good though….

My husband tried two sandwiches and had extras to bring home.

Paradisco- Mortadella, Stracciatella, pistachio cream, pistachios – He saids that the meat was very good.

Inferno – VERY GOOD and peppery Porchetta, Nduju (sausage spread), (It’s suppose to have grilled vegetables, arugula.

He really enjoyed the porchetta. He hasn’t had porchetta that was really great in a long time. It would have been better with the grilled vegetables but they were missing…Still a good sandwich. He preferred this sandwich over the Paradisco (Mortadella sandwich)

Of course All’Antico Vinaio is Worth a TRY! Who doesn’t want to try sandwiches that are called “Best in the World”

All’Antico Vinaio’8533 Rozita Lee Avenue Las Vegas NV

725-204-8449

www.AllAnticoVinaioLasVegas.com

Every THING is subject to change.

The Forking Truth

Italian Style Lemon Cookies Recipe

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I had some lemons to use and I was thinking lemon cookie. I came across an Italian Lemon Cookie Recipe that I had to completely change the recipe but I tried to shape the cookies similar to the original recipe. I think the recipe I read had typos (like 4 cups of flour for 20 cookies doesn’t make sense) and there wasn’t enough lemon in the recipe to taste lemon either (typo?). Made some other changes and came out with something really different. These cookies came out extra light, very lemony, and not too sweet. Servings are very hard to determine here. I made 40 small but very light cookies. I think you might eat up to four as a serving. So that means you will get between 40-10 servings….40 if you only eat one……(you are NOT going to do that)…….10 servings if you eat 4……I think around 15 servings is realistic…….

Ingredients for around 15 servings

2 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/4 teaspoon sea salt

1/2 cup sweet butter – melted

1/4 cup sugar

1 egg – beaten

1/4 cup milk

1 lemon – juice and zest

1 teaspoon lemon extract

non stick spray

1 cup 10X sugar (for glaze)

2 lemons for zest and only one lemon for the juice (for glaze)

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and spray a cookie sheet with non stick spray.

In a large mixing bowl combine the flour, baking powder, salt, butter, sugar, egg, milk, juice and zest of one lemon, and lemon extract. Hand mix with a FORK till combined. Roll logs that are ever so slightly thinner than your pinky. Or you can be more precise and divide the dough into 4 and get 10 cuts out of each quarter……….Each 10th gets rolled into a log close to your pinky size and you want each log to be about 4 inches long. You roll it into a fancy knot.

Have fun with this……it’s not brain surgery.

They go on your sprayed cookie sheet.

Into your preheated 350 degree oven on your middle rack till slightly browned and cooked……Ovens do indeed DIFFER………In my Whirlpool oven mine took 17 and 18 minutes………Your oven may differ.

While your cookies are baking mix up the glaze in a small bowl…..It’s just a cup of 10X, zest of two lemons and juice of one lemon. Mix well with a FORK.

Dip the cookie tops into the glaze.

Use all the glaze.

For some reason my one dog feels the need to guard the cookies.

Italian style lemon cookies

The Cookies really are FORKING DELICIOUS!

The Forking Truth

Gourmet China North Las Vegas NV – No heat inside or in food and too sweet

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Gourmet China is an American/Chinese restaurant with a location in North Las Vegas Nevada.

We were planing to dine in but the heat wasn’t on and it was only 45 degrees inside and outside the day we were here.

Gourmet China isn’t a fancy place and only has three and a half tables for dining in. This restaurant is mainly for take out.

They have a wooden frog with coins in it’s mouth at the end of the counter.

We tried egg rolls.

To us they are more like spring rolls……These were crisp on the outside and were somewhat raw and doughy on the inside.

I tried the Szechuan Garlic Hot Chicken.

The Good –

The chicken seems fresh and is very tender.

The vegetables are tender crisp and also seem fresh.

The FORKING Truth.

This is NOT spicy hot at all.

This is NOT garlic-ee

This is SO SWEET you can pour it on pancakes.

This might be the sweetest American Chinese Dish I ever tried anywhere. Just so you know I truly do LOVE sweets but not like this. I think that this is far too sweet for anyone to enjoy.

I tried to fix it by adding their hot Chile sauce but something is also wrong with the hot Chile sauce…….It’s not HOT…….I don’t know WTFork it is?

My husband tries the Hunan beef.

The beef is tender and the vegetables are fresh. This dish was medium spicy and better than the Szechwan chicken……

Your experience may or may not differ, and you also might prefer your Garlic Hot Szechwan Chicken not garlic-ee, not hot, and extra sweet?

Gourmet China

6360 Simmons Street North Las Vegas Nevada

702-776-8998

I haven’t found a functioning website for Gourmet China but you can find them on Facebook.

Every THING is subject to change.

The Forking Truth

Casa Real Mexican Restaurant – Newly Opened Las Vegas NV – Worth a Try!

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Casa Real full service Mexican Restaurant and Bar recently opened at 7121 West Craig Road in Las Vegas Nevada. Inside is very decorated with several wide screen TVs, many Mexican artifacts, and nick knacks.

They start you off with complimentary chips and salsa.

I tried a dish that most Mexican restaurants don’t offer……The chef’s specialty dish….The Salmon a la Plancha.

WOW! This is really different…Smashed pumpkin seeds, mild habanero and mango salsas, asparagus, a slightly sweetened white rice that is kinda risotto like, and creamy sweet fried plantains. The flavors are delicious……The fish today was cooked well done but isn’t dry or fishy. If this was cooked slightly less this really would be amazing.

My husband went with a combo fajita (beef, chicken, shrimp with added cheese).

It a very large generous portion and also came with flour tortillas. Some parts of it are better than other parts (just like most fajitas out there). My husband thought that the refried ere very good. His least favorite thing was the chicken because it was dry today.

On another visit we tried a Chile rellleno.

It was different than what I’m used too but was made with a fresh poblano pepper…..I was told that they grilled it instead of frying it today. It was stuffed with cheese and was battered and topped with a Chile type sauce and a drizzle of sour cream.

The Taco Salad with chicken is also a little different. It’s topped with guacamole and some creama. The chicken on it was moist. It is a little smaller than what most places offer but for me it’s a good size.

You can also get tacos here. Seafood, birria, and pork were tried here. All were flavorful and tasty. They came with Mexican style rice and refried beans.

Our server was attentive and the margaritas were strong.

Casa Real is newly opened. Worth a Try!

7121 W Craig Rd Las Vegas NV – 256-452-1375

www.CasaRealMexicanRestaurantNV.com

Every THING is subject to change.

The Forking Truth

2 Hour Braised Napa Cabbage or Stuffed Dumplings Recipe

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There is a popular trend of frying cabbage lately. One of the fried cabbage recipes I came across was from Chef Adeena Sussman. Her recipe was called Melted Green Cabbage. She fried her cabbage wedges, fried the shallots and garlic, then put it all in a pan with broth, wine and seasoning cover it up and transfer to an oven for two hours.

This recipe is a different variation but is inspired by Chef Aleena Sussman’s recipe.

I do cabbage very often. It always gets crispy edges so I prefer to skip the frying of the cabbage. I just left my pan uncovered and I got crispy edges. This turned out to be a tasty different cabbage recipe that you can serve with anything. My Napa cabbage was sort of smaller so I got around 4 servings.

Ingredients for around 4 servings

1 Napa cabbage – quartered but not cored.

1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil

2 teaspoons sea salt

1 teaspoon ground black pepper

10 garlic cloves

2 large shallots cut into thick slices

1/2 cup white wine

1 Tablespoon vegetable soup base (I used Better Than Bouillon Brand)

1/2 teaspoon dried thyme

1 Tablespoon unsalted butter

optional – parsley, and or chives to finish

Directions

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.

In a small bowl mix together the wine, thyme with the vegetable paste and add it to your pan. Also add the butter to the pan. Place the cabbage, shallots, and garlic in the pan. Sprinkle the cabbage with olive oil. Sprinkle the salt and pepper.

Put this on the middle rack of your preheated 300 degree F oven for two hours.

After two hours it should look like this.

If desired sprinkle with parsley and or chives.

2 hour Braised Napa Cabbage

A Special THANKS!!!!! To Chef Adeena Sussman for her recipe so I could come up with what I got here.

The Cabbage was very good but I got the idea that it would be even more amazing in a dumpling……so…..

Then I made half a batch of Shirley Chung’s dumpling dough (2 c. flour, 1/2+1/8 cup water, 1/2 teaspoon salt) I chopped up one cabbage wedge with three braised garlic cloves chopped fine and part of a shallot chopped and mixed in one egg)

boiled them till they float.

Maybe I’ll fry them?

Then I fried around half of the dumplings in around a stick of butter and some of the oil that was sitting in the dumpling dish.

Stuffed Dumplings with two hour Braised Cabbage

These were FORKING Delicious!

The Forking Truth

Pumpernickel Crisps Recipe

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I’ve been making lots of crisps lately. I thought I’d try to make pumpernickel today.

This will make about 6 servings

1 cup flour

1/2 cup dark rye flour

1/4 cup wheat graham flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

2 Tablespoons unsweetened cocoa

1 Tablespoon dark brown sugar

1 Tablespoon caraway seeds + more for finishing

1/4 teaspoon ground cumin

1/4 teaspoon ground coriander

1/4 teaspoon granulated garlic

1 teaspoon onion flakes

poppy seeds – to taste to finish

flake sea salt – to taste to finish

1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil + MORE to spray dough

1/2 cup water (maybe add 1 more tablespoon if needed)

Directions

Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.

In a large bowl mix together the flours, baking powder, cocoa, sugar, caraway seeds, cumin, coriander, garlic, onion flakes, oil, water.

Divide in three balls.

Over parchment place and flatten a dough ball. Cover with plastic wrap and roll thin. Place this on a baking sheet.

Remove plastic wrap.

Spray dough with olive oil, sprinkle salt flakes, poppy seeds, and caraway seeds.

This goes on middle rack of preheated 450F degree oven for around 13-14 minutes or until done.

When it’s hot it might still be soft. Wait till it cools. If not crisp enough turn it over and give it two or three minutes.

Pumpernickel Crisps

ENJOY!!!!!

The Forking Truth

My Trip to New China Cuisine – North Las Vegas NV – Nevada Style Chinese Food….Soy Sauce Forward

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New China Cuisine offers your usual American Chinese Foods and also offers NEW Boiling Cajun Shellfish dishes and a milk tea menu instead of the sushi they recently offered. They are located in North Las Vegas Nevada. It looks like your typical Chinese Restaurant with roomy booths and Chinese Style decorations.

I went with Szechuan Chicken.

It’s a very large portion and does come with LOTS of tender crisp vegetables. I have red and green bell peppers, baby corn, water chestnuts, bamboo shoots, onions, carrots, and zucchini. The white meat chicken is MASTERFULLY tender…….The sauce is kinda flat and not very spicy……It taste mostly like thick soy sauce………Like from not all but most of the American Chinese Restaurants I’ve been to in Nevada……I’m beginning to think that Nevada Style American Chinese Food mostly taste like soy sauce………..

speaking of soy sauce……

The Hunan Beef also is MASTERFULLY TENDER like butter but taste even more like soy sauce. It comes with nicely steamed broccoli.

That was my trip to New China Cuisine……It might be Nevada Style American Chinese Food because what we tried was extremely soy sauce forward.

5515 Camino Al Norte North Las Vegas NV

702-438-3888

www.NewChinaCuisine.com

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The Forking Truth

John Mull’s Meats & Road Kill Grill – Las Vegas NV – Worth a Try!

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John Mull’s Meats & Road Kill Grill might look familiar to you if you watch Food Network’s Diners Drive-ins and Dives.

John Mull’s Meats & Road Kill Grill is located in the North Central Part of Las Vegas Nevada in a residential section. Around seventy years back this business was a slaughter house and meat shop that did catering. They no longer slaughter their own cattle here. They added a few outdoor picnic tables and serve mostly take out barbecue. They offer soups, sandwiches, dinners, and a variety of combo plates. The choices for the combo plates are – brisket, 1/4 chicken, hot link, pulled pork, pulled chicken, rib tips, pork ribs, (Tuesday-Thursday Tri-Tip).

I planned to dine here with the dogs because I read that this place is dog friendly but I had no idea that the place would be packed like sardines with people. It wasn’t the right environment to dine here with dogs so I waited in the car with the dogs and we did take out like most people.

Portions are tiny here……HA!…..I’m FORKING KIDDING!

My husband got an enormous combo plate with pulled chicken, pulled pork, brisket, macaroni and cheese, beans, cornbread, and a side order of hot links.

I got a combo plate of 1/4 dark chicken, brisket, macaroni and cheese, yams, and cornbread. Oh and it’s not tiny either.

My husband and I favored some things over other things….But the dogs enjoyed everything!

Between us out of what we tried we liked best the 1/4 dark chicken, pulled pork, hot links, beans, yams, sweet cornbread.

We both thought the brisket was tasty but we received a mix of fatty and lean brisket. Some pieces were dried out and others were moist.

We both thought that the macaroni and cheese was strange……..I thought it seemed like macaroni that was suspended in cream cheese with a little bit of cheddar mixed in.

“I enjoy the macaroni and cheese!” says the pup!

John Mull’s Meats & Road Kill Grill is Worth a Try!

3730 Thom Blvd Las Vegas NV

702-645-1200

www.JohnMullsMeats.com

Every THING is subject to change.

The Forking Truth