My local Sprouts Grocery had these fancy carrots on sale for 98cents a bag so I bought 3 bags of them. They were just roasted up with orange slices, orange zest, oil, a tiny bit of honey, and salt, pepper, and near the end I added pistachios. Serving size depends on the size serving that you desire……If you eat 4 carrots a serving then this will make around 8 servings.
Ingredient for around 8 servings
2+1/4 lb carrots (I had 3 – 12 ounce bags of fancy carrots that were washed and peeled)
1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
2 oranges and zest
1/4 cup pistachios – slightly crushed
sea salt – to taste
black pepper – to taste
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
Grate the zest off of the cleaned oranges. Then remove the peel with a knife so you are removing the skin that is around the orange. Then slice it up. Repeat with the second orange.
Line the carrots on sheet pan(s).
Spray the carrots generously with olive oil. Add some sea salt and black pepper. Add the orange slices and zest. Spray again with oil.
Place on middle rack of preheated oven till soft….(about one hour and 15 minutes – one hour and a half).
Add pistachios and spray again with oil. The carrots will need 15-30 minutes more. You want them a little wrinkly and just slightly browned.
Above are Pate A Choux Pastries filled with vanilla cream topped with chocolate, chocolate pots de creme, and a cherry
These are what I call potato stuffed potatoes…..Basically mashed potatoes with an egg piped into hollowed out baby potatoes or parts of regular potatoes.
Brown Butter Sea Salt Chocolate Chip Cookies
Thought I’d feature some oldies but still goodies.
Tokyo Cafe is a small casual order-at-the-counter ramen & curry restaurant located in North Las Vegas Nevada. Some of the other offerings are appetizers like octopus balls, edamame, and gyoza. They also offer soups, salads, fried rice dishes, and teriyaki. Soft beverages and boba are also available.
The chicken katsu curry is a double serving of chicken breast (in TWO layers) over maybe FOUR servings of steamed white rice with a small garnish of ginger dressed lettuce and a cup of mild or spicy curry on the side.
The tonkatsu ramen is adorned with three half jammy eggs, noodles, pork belly, mushrooms, and more.
The noodles aren’t the chewiest but the rest is pretty good.
Mi Carboncito Peruvian Food is located in Las Vegas Nevada. This isn’t a fancy place but it seems clean and soft beverages are offered here.
I ordered the #27 Pescado Sudado (steamed fish) but they served me the #26 Filete De Pescado (fried fish). I didn’t feel like saying anything so I just accepted it.
It’s a generous portion of mild white flesh fish that is fried nice and light with a thin coating that seems free of oil. Under the fish is a slice of ripe tomato and some onion salsa. There is also a serving of sticky white rice. We were also given two sauces. One was a creamy mild almost pink sauce and the other was a spicy cilantro sauce. Both sauces were tasty with the fish.
My husband tried the Picante Camarones.
He said that the sauce was spicy and delicious and the shrimp were prepared nicely.
Mi Carboncito Peruvian Food is Worth a try!
6679 Smoke Ranch Rd – 702-268-8907
I have not found a website for Mi Carboncito Peruvian Food but they can be be found on Facebook and their menu is on Zmenu.com
The Promenade Food Court is located in Fontainebleau Casino/Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada.
My first taste came from El Bagel. At the time of this writing this restaurant has an impressive 5 star rating on Yelp. They offer breakfast and regular bagel sandwiches. They also offer sides of matzah balls.
While I was waiting for our order I spotted Chef Aaron May eating a matzah ball from El Bagel but when I got ready to snap his picture he got up to leave (that is him on the right).
The better of the two bagel sandwiches was the Pastrami Classico (18 hour smoked pastrami, Swiss cheese, coleslaw, thousand island dressing) on a plain bagel because they ran out of most of their bagels by 11:00.
It’s tender and seems fresh. To us it is smokey but isn’t flavored so much like pastrami….It’s like if you wanted pastrami but with less flavors…..
We also shared a Lox Supreme -Open Faced (cold smoked Nova Lox, plain cream cheese, tomato, cucumber, pickled onions, capers, and a very small amount of fresh dill). On a plain bagel because they were out of sesame, everything, and poppy bagels. They only had plain and salt by 11:00.
The best part of this sandwich are the most flavorful freshest cucumbers that I have tasted in a very long time. These are the best cucumbers ever……The rest is ok…..Not the best bagel…….
Not the best cream cheese….It seems like it was watered down……..
The lox has a nice texture but taste ever so slightly fishy…….
Really don’t like the pickled onions…….because they taste more like candied onions…..Maybe they spoil the balance of flavors and maybe the sweet pickled onions make the lox taste off?
El Bagel – 702-678-9000
Fontainebleau Las Vegas 2777 S Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas NV
www.FontainebleauLasVegas.com
Moving on……
Next to El Bagel is Capons.
They offer Chef Capon’s custom beef blend burgers and chicken sandwiches on house made potato buns. They also offer chicken tenders, fries, onion rings, house made gelato, and soft serve ice cream.
We shared one of the chicken sandwiches called The Firebird (hot honey glaze, sriracha aioli, spice rub, bread and butter pickles on the house made potato roll.
It’s an ugly duckling (or an ugly capon?) BUT IT’S FORKING DELICIOUS!
It rocks with all kinds of delicious flavors and textures…….Sweet, Tangy, Spicy, Crunch, Juicy, Tasty, Delicious !!!!!
The pickles are BOMB diggity GREAT!!!!! WOW I wish they sold them separably. They have so much going on with them…They can make anything taste great…I wonder how I can make pickles like this? The chicken is marvelously juicy and flavorful with a shattering crisp exterior that Is coated in deliciousness and is embellished with a zingy sriracha aioli…. YUM
THIS IS A FORKING GREAT CHICKEN SANDWICH!
We tried a few scoops of the house made gelato.
The single scoops here are double the size of most places.
Both flavors here are amazing and are top notch.
We tried chocolate peanut butter chunk and pistachio.
They really are as good as can be…..The Chocolate Peanut Butter Chunk was made with quality tasting chocolate and DOES TASTE like chocolate but you also get pops of peanut butter cups….It’s just great together. The Pistachio really does taste like pistachio…..and has lots of real toasted pistachios in it……There is a possibility that this might be the best gelato in Las Vegas.
I will add that they are so creamy and rich that I would have guessed them to be ice cream.
Capons was a really great stop.
Capons – 833-702-7070
Fontainebleau Las Vegas 2777 S Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas NV
www.FontainebleauLasVegas.com
We also got to try Bar Ito. It’s a quality hand roll and sushi bowl stand. The menu is very limited and you can order either 3 rolls, 5 rolls, miso soup, or select one of the few bowls.
We tried three rolls (spicy tuna roll, toro roll, and a salmon roll).
They came in this amazing box with very nice chopsticks.
It’s so pretty (and so wasteful)
You need to read directions on how to unravel the sushi.
It’s very good sushi……and they also fill the sushi with a generous amount of fish…..It is very good….But I feel guilty wasting the magnificent box when I’m done.
Bar Ito – 702-678-9000
Fontainebleau 2777 S Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas NV
www.FontainebleauLasVegas.com
Roadside Taco from L.A. California has a stand in the food court that we tried.
We shared a mushroom taco and a hot chicken taco. I also noticed that they make margaritas here but it was early so I passed on margaritas.
After the mushroom taco for some odd reason the hot chicken taco is very bland.
The chicken is moist and the breading fell off of some of the chicken. It taste like they forgot to season the chicken……The slaw and chipotle aioli taste kinda more like mayonnaise and lack a chipotle taste……The mushroom taco was far more flavorful and also far more spicy than the hot chicken taco……
Roadside Taco – 702-678-9000
Fontainebleau Las Vegas 2777 S Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas NV
www.FountainebleauLasVegas,com
That was a Taste of Promenade Food Court at Fontainebleau Las Vegas.
2 lbs. green beans – trimmed and boiled in salted water for three minutes and then optional ice bath (you do the ice bath if you want the vegetable to stay green but it gets cold.
12 oz. kale – chopped
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1-small bottle capers (mine was 3 oz.) – drained and pat dry
1/2 lemon – just the fresh juice
sea salt to taste
ground black pepper – to taste
Directions
On medium high heat add the oil to a medium sauce pan. fry the capers till some of them open (3-4 minutes) Remove the capers and add them to the green beans. Fry up the kale. Add some salt and pepper. Fry the kale till it’s wilted and add it to the green beans. Finish with lemon juice. Add salt and pepper to taste.
At my local Sprouts Grocery Store I came across these Kimchi Dill Pickle Cranberries. I thought I was seeing things. Why would anyone want Kimchi Dill Pickle Cranberries?
You may not agree but I think someone was on drugs to think this one up.
Kimchi Dill Pickle Cranberries just might be the FORKING WEIRDEST Food Find Ever!
Pizza Baby’s origional location is on Craig Road in North Las Vegas Nevada. This is a neighborhood type pizza restaurant. That means you go to it if you happen to be in the neighborhood. They offer 2 sizes of pizzas (large and xtra large) made with 72 hour fermented dough. They also offer salads, cheesy sticks, fried pepperoni Bambino pockets, fries, chicken tenders, chicken wings, kid’s meals, and Blue Bell Ice Cream. Soft beverages are served here.
Looks like a pizza place inside.
You order and pay at the counter and seat yourself.
we started out by sharing an entree sized “Baby Loves” salad.
It’s bigger than I expected it to be. t’s different than the description. They gave us apples instead of strawberries and blue cheese..Without mentioning the substitution………………Anyways…….. This salad also has blueberries and candied pecans in it….It’s pretty good anyway. We both had small salads out of this and there is plenty left.
Here comes the Margherita pizza.
They put lots of fresh basil on it. The crust is light and not too heavy or dense. The sauce is very thick and rich. Cheese is decent…Not bad.
From what I tried so far it seems like a decent neighborhood pizza restaurant.
Las Pupusas is a casual Salvadorian/Mexican restaurant with a few locations in Las Vegas Nevada. I went to the North Las Vegas Location on Craig Road and had the grilled salmon there.
It’s not a fancy plate of food and is very basic but is a large portion and the salmon was prepared nicely with a soft moist center.
I was surprised that this $15. meal was prepared this nicely.
On another night we went to MRKT. It’s the nicest restaurant at Aliante Casino Hotel. It’s a steak and seafood restaurant. I’ve previously enjoyed steak here. I thought tonight I’d try the salmon.
It came out with a great sear on it and shattering crisp skin but was terribly over cooked and very dry. Incase you don’t know…salmon doesn’t taste good when it is over cooked.
What a shame…….the quality of this fish means nothing when it’s over cooked like that.
I send it back since it was $38.00. (without sides)
Then I get this……
It’s raw in the middle and like seared sushi…….
This got sent back too…..
Was waiting for a third one but it took so long we left.
Incase you don’t know what a quality perfectly cooked salmon is like …….here is what you should expect to be at a nice restaurant.
The salmon should have a nice sear. When it’s cooked like this you get that special silkiness in your mouth and the salmon flavor is its best. Also at better restaurants the blood line is removed (that is the dark meat on the bottom of filet).
The $15. Salmon from Las Pupusas was prepared better than the $38. salmon from MRKT.
Las Papusas
945 W Craig Rd North Las Vegas NV
702-648-6200
I have not found a working website for Las Papusas.
MRKT Sea & Land at Aliante Casino/Hotel
7300 Ailante Pkwy North Las Vegas NV
702-692-7320
www.Aliante.BoydGaming.com
Every THING is subject to change. (maybe the chef at MRKT will learn how to cook salmon?)
Umami Sushi is located in the Centennial Area of Las Vegas Nevada. This is a really Great “Neighborhood Type” sushi restaurant …………Not a Morimoto Type Sushi Restaurant where you spend like $500.00 a couple for sushi….instead you get a sushi fix for only $29.95 per person for all you can eat sushi. You can order a la carte or take out at Umami Sushi but most people do the All You Can Eat Here and it’s very popular. BE PREPARED TO WAIT FOR A TABLE…….We came extra crazy early for dinner (4:30) and they were already on an hour wait. We left and tried lunch instead. We came 15 minutes before opening and were #3 in line…About 15 minutes later a whole dining room of people were waiting outside for them to open.
(Best part of fish the collar) Hamachi Kama (these are limit one a person)
One of their specialty spicy rolls called , “A Little Tease” WOW! This was maybe the tastiest sushi roll I ever had anywhere……..Spicy tuna, cucumber, cajun tuna, fried onions, jalapeño, spicy mayo garlic ponzu, eel sauce. I’ll be sure to get this again!
Tuna Belly and Ocean Trout (limit one a person on Ocean Trout)
Tempura Vegetables
Fried sausages that look like octopus (my husband said that these were very good and he ate TWO plates of them.
Korean Fried Chicken…..Tasty but this ran a little sweet for me.
Some sort of pork dumplings that look like tater tots.
