I found Maple Bacon Bubble Lick at my local Petsmart. It reads on the bottle that it is safe for dogs and kids to eat maple bacon bubbles and it’s made in America so I thought it sounds like fun so why not?
When you open the bottle to use it smells like maple syrup.
We try it with our Giant Aussie crossed with Cattle Dog first.
She looks at the bubbles.
Then she seems interested. It looks like she might do something?
Then she watches them burst on the ground…..
Then we try Maple Bacon Bubble Lick with our beagle-chihuahua mix.
He looks at the bubbles.
He still is watching the bubbles.
Then he watches the bubbles bust on the ground.
Both my dogs just watch the bubbles. I wonder why they just watch the bubbles? Then I read the ingredients.
I guess not enough maple or maybe not enough bacon for my dogs taste.
That’s what my dogs did with Maple Bacon Bubble Lick.
The Baguette Cafe is a sandwich and breakfast restaurant located in Las Vegas Nevada around 8 miles away from the Las Vegas Strip. I recently read an article from Food and Wine Magazine about the BEST SANDWICHES in every state. They choose the Baguette Cafe as best sandwiches in Nevada (particularly the tuna) so I wanted to give this place a try.
Lots of trash here.
The inside is the same but I didn’t get a photo of it. (You can see one piece of trash that tumbled to the floor near to where it’s piled like a mountain.
All the tables and the floor are filthy but I ordered the tuna baguette anyway because I want to taste the best sandwich of Nevada according to Food and Wine Magazine. My husband was going to order an Italian meat sandwich but changed his mind when he read they put blue cheese on it and went with a turkey sandwich instead.
Here’s the tuna baguette sandwich.
The bread didn’t get toasted but it is very good bread. If they sold baguettes I would have made a purchase to bring some home. The greens are nice and fresh and they used better than average tomato slices. They also added hard eggs to the sandwich that are cooked nicely…..I hate to tell The FORKING Truth but the tuna salad is very average……..I was all pumped up to taste the best sandwich in Nevada…so this was a let down. Don’t get me wrong. It’s not a bad sandwich. ………..It honestly is a good sandwich………..The bread is excellent but the main filling is just average…….Like what you’d make at home or get from almost any other sandwich shop.
Moving on….
The turkey sandwich is also on very good bread but is even more disappointing.
It’s made with nice fresh greens, better tomato slices,,,,but……The turkey lunch meat is very similar to the type that the big chain Subway uses……..I thought it would something more like roasted turkey breast………..
My FORKING opinion is not the same as Food and Wine Magazine.
Don’t get me wrong…The food is good from Baguette Cafe but many sandwiches I’ve tried here in Vegas from several places are far better.
That was my trip to Baguette Cafe 8359 W Sunset Rd Las Vegas NV – 702-269-4781
Stallone’s Italian Eatery is a casual East Coast Style Italian Restaurant with a new location at the Santa Fe Casino in Las Vegas Nevada. You order at the counter and your name will be called as your order gets made.
In the picture below if you blow it up you can see one of the co-owners (behind the counter by the 28 shirt on the wall) that is well known for a reality show called “Tanked” that airs on Animal Planet.
We tried a variety of things and brought home leftovers….I heard that the sandwiches here are very good but enormous so I went with a garlic knot sandwich in the eggplant parmesan variety.
It’s not really something that you can pick up and eat. It’s more like a fancy appetizer. It’s cheesy.
It’s garlic-ee but not too much. The sauce is flavorful and delicious. The eggplants are fried perfect and seem like they are free of oil.
I also tried a plain slice of pizza.
It looks like a New York Slice but taste more like a neighborhood type slice. You need to add the spices to your liking. The crust is not thin enough to fold like a New York slice and it’s also not as oily as what I’ve tried from New York. But this slice has a nice crisp bottom.
My husband tried the #32 Super Hero called, The Godmother (veal cutlet, prosciutto, fresh mozzarella, cherry peppers, arugula, and balsamic glaze)
This stands out not just because of its size but also because of the special tasty bread that was baked for it. The veal is also prepared perfect and I was told that this was a delicious sandwich.
My husband also tried a slice of pepperoni pizza.
Both of us thought the sandwiches we tried were the way to go here.
Stallone’s Italian Eatery is newly opened at Santa Fe Casino and is Worth a Try!
The Martini is a twenty four hour restaurant, bar, and gaming place located in Las Vegas in the Summerlin area near Boca Park. When you walk in it looks pretty much like a big bar with a couple rooms for additional seating if needed.
Besides bar drinks and games they offer appetizers, salads, flatbread’s, sandwiches, burgers, entrees, and more. They also have a $15. filet mignon special that runs midnight to six am daily and all day Sunday.
We tried the truffled macaroni and cheese balls.
They were fried nicely and sat in a tasty tomato sauce embellished with shreds of parmesan cheese. We both didn’t get much of a truffle taste but that’s ok.
I was very surprised with how good and extra large the trail mix salad was with added seared tuna (soft greens, apples, blue cheese, cranberries, candied seasoned pecans, tangerine vinaigrette)
This was actually very good! I don’t know if they always give such large portions but this was so large I could only eat maybe less than half. Even the tuna was a very generous portion.
My husband enjoyed the Eastwood burger with fries (fried egg, jalapeño, cheddar cheese, grilled onions, avocado, mayo (left off at request), prosciutto, bacon).
The bun is big but I was told that this was a really great burger and turned out close to medium – rare as requested.
We went back on a Sunday to try the $15.00 filet mignon special.
Just add salt and pepper.
The Martini is Worth a Fork!
Worth a Fork!
The Martini – 1205 S. Fort Apache Rd Las Vegas NV – 702-227-8464
This is a variation of a brisket recipe I got by watching Diners Drive Inns and Dives on Food Network. Guy Fieri said this brisket was amazing and I think my last brisket recipe was pretty much what I saw on TV. There is no searing or smoking. The hard part is trimming off the hard fat and deciding on how much fat that you want to leave on. Briskets were on sale so I picked one up. It happened to be a small one (around 9 lbs) I cut off not all but most of the fat. Then I just cut the brisket in half. Sprinkled a whole 1.41 oz box of Sazon all purpose seasoning. One pan got 2 lbs onions and some garlic and a 1/2 cup of water, smoked sea salt and black pepper. The other pan got red peppers, garlic, smoked sea salt, black pepper, and 1/2 a cup of water. Cover pans tight and 6 hours latter we had really great flavorful brisket. (one pan didn’t contain onions so my dogs could eat some and it still came out delicious anyway) Serving size will differ dramatically on depending on how much fat you trim and how much fat you are willing to eat. Jiggly brisket fat grosses me out so I trimmed mine far more than you probably would. My 9 pound brisket only made around 9 not so big dinners……..(but I think they gave me more fat than meat …..).
Ingredients for at least 9 servings
1 brisket (mine was 9 pounds) – trimmed to your liking and cut in half
1 – 1.41 ounce package Sazon con Colantro & Achiote (cilantro and annatto)
15 garlic cloves – chopped
2 lbs. onions – sliced and rough chopped
3 red bell peppers – slices and rough chopped
4 sweet potatoes – peeled – cut in half if large
1 cup water
a good sprinkle smoked sea salt
1 good sprinkle fresh ground black pepper
Directions
Set oven to 350 degrees F
Each pan gets 1/2 a brisket sprinkled with 1/2 the Sazon. One pan gets all the onions, 1/2 the garlic, a good sprinkle of smoked sea salt and black pepper and a half cup of water.
The 2nd pan gets all the bell peppers, the sweet potatoes, 1/2 the garlic, a good sprinkle of smoked sea salt, black pepper, and a 1/2 cup water.
These pans get covered tight with foil and go on the middle rack for around 6 hours.
I thought this was extra easy!
FORKING EASY and DELICIOUS Brisket
(Tip***** You will want to put the briskets in the refrigerator over night so you can slice them. The liquid you might want to chill overnight so you can remove the thick layer of fat. *****Another hint- You might want to keep that fat in your freezer. It can add a lot of flavors to other foods and it can also be used to make beef gravy.)
The Market Place Buffet is located in the Rampart Casino in the Summerlin area of Las Vegas Nevada. This buffet offers a combination of American foods and global inspired foods. They are open for breakfast, lunch, brunch and dinner. They offer soft beverages, beer, and wine.
We tried them on a Saturday night that happened to be Aloha Night.
Not all but a few of the offerings were kalua pig (pictured above)
fried chicken
huli huli chicken
fried shrimp
coconut creamed spinach
sweet potatoes
mashed potatoes
roasted turkey breast
prime rib
a salad bar
assorted cheeses and cold cuts
assorted bread buns and tapenades
raviolis and pasta dishes
pizzas
three different soups
around 6 different Chinese dishes (the curry chicken was really great!)
and a dessert station with gelato
All this was only $30.99 a person (subject to change).
This wasn’t fancy food but honestly this was much better than I expected it to be. All the meats EVEN THE TURKEY BREAST were warm, tender, moist, and nicely seasoned. The desserts that we tried (gelato, lemon tart, lemon roll) were also a better quality than most typical buffets.
The Market Place Buffet at Rampart Casino is WORTH A TRY!
Amazing Thai Restaurant has two locations in Las Vegas. They are a little different from other Thai Restaurants because they offer vegan dishes and traditional Thai dishes. The North Las Vegas location isn’t a fancy place but is cozy with traditional seating, booth, and bar seating.
This is the first time I saw eggplant chips on a menu so I wanted to try them.
WOW! They are really great! they are made from a fancy white flesh eggplant and are creamy and sweet inside. The exterior is so crisp and it’s fried so perfect that it seems free of oil. I didn’t think I’d like the sweet sauce but it’s not too sweet and has flavors and heat. It’s pretty good too!
I tried the spicy basil eggplant with chicken and brown rice.
It’s very good but different from other places that I tried this dish from. The white meat chicken is tender. They use white flesh fancy sweet eggplant here too. It’s the sauce that has a deeper kind of taste…….
My husband tried the drunken noodles with beef.
Flavors are good. Heat level is good but beef today is a little on the chewy side.
1228 Main Bakery Bar & Restaurant is located in the Arts District of Las Vegas Nevada Downtown. This restaurant offers fresh brewed coffee, baked goods, breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a late night menu. This restaurant is part of the Wolfgang Puck Restaurant group but nothing about that is found on the website.
Besides salads, sandwiches, and entrees you might splurge to take home a loaf of bread or maybe try a fresh baked pastry.
During lunch time it’s very casual and you order and pay, grab a table number, and seat yourself.
I tried a smoked salmon latke.
The salmon seems fresh and silky. It seems like it might be from the belly area…..It also seems to be hand sliced…(you don’t find that at most places) This is very good! The smoked salmon, red onion, fresh dill, and dill cream fraiche sit on top of a perfectly prepared potato latke.
My husband a sandwich called Italian meat.
It’s made of fresh baked rosemary focaccia, basil aioli (on side at request), provolone cheese, soppressata, mortadella, prosciutto, and a very good salad on the side. My husband commented that the meats used were a very good quality and that he would enjoy eating this sandwich again. He also said that I made a very good choice today.
We managed to save room to try a lemon cruffin.
The lemon cruffin is FORKING AMAZING…….It’s like a croissant but more tender and moist and it’s filled with the most splendid lemon curd that is so flavorful….so true lemon tart with just enough sweet. There should be a line out the door for this dessert alone.
We came back to take advantage of their happy hour (3-6 every day) We got a bottle of cabernet that was only a couple dollars over cost so that was a great deal!
Then we shared what they call a Cypress Grove Bermuda Triangle (goat cheese and toasted pumpernickel….embelleshed with beets)
Oh YUM!! This is delicious……It’s a different style of pumpernickel than what I’m used to but it is all delicious together.
For dinner I had one of the most PHENOMENAL chicken dinners ever!
This was the roasted jidori chicken thigh with Brentwood sweet corn, romesco, and chive oil. The skin was reduced to as thin as paper. The chicken is infused with great flavors and is so tender it melts in your mouth. It was really FORKING AMAZING!
My husband tried the 1228 Wagyu Burger (dijonaise, American cheese, red onion, kosher dill, and fries)
It a solid good tasty burger (2 patty smash style) with very above average tasty fries with fluffy interiors. But my husband said if he knew how amazing the chicken was he would have ordered the chicken and he almost never orders chicken out.
I was too full to fit in dessert but I did take out a Amalfi olive oil lemon cake.
It taste the way it looks….It’s moist, rich, and very lemon-ee………
1228 Main Bakery Bar & Restaurant is Worth a Fork!
This recipe isn’t for everyone because you have to wing it depending on the heat and taste of your hatch Chile peppers. The Smith’s Grocery store near me has a really good Murray’s Cheese Counter and I almost always pick up the WOO HOO sales at the cheese counter for fun. As a result my hobby at Smith’s my refrigerator is usually packed with TONS of cheese that I hardly pay for. I know most people would never use this much cheese in a recipe but it came out really delicious. I also have many dried peppers I use to boost the taste since the hatch chilies I bought here are extra light on flavor and extra EXTRA light with heat. You will not be in the same situation.
I do make my macaroni and cheese different from most people no matter what flavor profile I’m doing. I do make a cheese sauce but I usually make it with a little corn starch (I HATE the taste of flour when I eat macaroni and cheese and cornstarch works better), nonfat dry milk, no butter, and LOTS of cheese.
Today I did something a little different. I was afraid I’d over cook the pasta. So I started the pasta out in a bowl of hot salted water for a few minutes. I noticed the pasta was softer and I drained it. Then I baked it with layers of cheese sauce and some added cheese.
When this all baked it did have some oil on the top and I added some crushed white tortilla chips and a masa, onion, crumb mixture that I added to the top.
Then I finished it with some chopped Mexican green onion, cilantro, and some pickled red onion.
According to my husband this came out to be a Masterpiece. It did come out FORKING delicious too!
Ingredients for around 12 servings
1/2 a pound box of pasta (either a point or twisty type) 8-9 ounces
1 teaspoon jalapeño flakes (or to taste) – cheese sauce
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper – cheese sauce
1/4 teaspoon ground white pepper – cheese sauce
15 oz mature cheddar cheese – either shredded or chopped (This is used to layer between pasta and sauce)
4 oz butter – melted – I used salted but you can use either – crumbs
1/2 cup harina de maiz – crumbs
1/4 cup flour – crumbs
1/2 cup chopped onion (I used Mexican onion) – crumbs
1/2 cup hard shredded Italian cheese (I used grana padano) – crumbs
1/2 teaspoon chipotle pepper flakes – crumbs
1 teaspoon smoked paprika – crumbs
non stick spray
2 oz crushed white tortilla chips – for finishing
2 Tablespoons – scallions – for finishing
2 Tablespoons – cilantro , chopped – for finishing
Optional (but better if you make some) 2 Tablespoons pickled red onions – for finishing (EZ – 1 onion sliced thin, 1/2 C. water, 1/2C. white vinegar, 1 Tablespoon sugar, 1/4 teaspoon g. black pepper, 1/4 teaspoon g. coriander)
Directions
Microwave or put on a pot of water with salt to boil. The pasta only needs around three minutes and then drain the pasta and put to the side.
Make cheese sauce. In a pot mix together the corn starch and milk powder. Then whisk in the water. This needs to be on medium heat until thickened. Keep stirring the bottom because it can burn.After it is thick add the cheddar, goat, brie cheese, and hatch Chile peppers. You will need to lower the heat to low. Add the hatch flakes, jalapeno flakes, black and white pepper.. Take off the heat.
This gets layered like lasagna.
Preheat oven to 350.
Use a big pan or 1/2 pan and spray with non stick spray.
Start with about three serving spoons of cheese sauce.
Next add about 1/3rd of pasta.
next add about 1/3rd of the cheddar cheese.
2 -3 serving spoons of cheese sauce.
1/3 of the noodles.
about 1/2 the cheddar.
1/2 the cheese sauce that is left. then top that with remaining pasta.
Add more cheese.
use the rest of the sauce.
Cover with foil that was sprayed with non stick spray. This goes on the middle rack of a preheated 350F degree oven till it’s cooked threw. Oven DO FORKING DIFFER. In my old GE oven this would take around an hour. In my Whirlpool oven this took 1 hour and 20 minutes.
While it’s baking make the crumb topping.
In a small bowl combine the butter, harina de mai, flour, onion, italian cheese, chipotle pepper flakes, and smoked paprika. This goes on a baking sheet sprayed with non stick spray. This goes on your upper rack till done. In my oven this took 30 minutes but oven do differ. I’d look at it in 20 minutes and then decide if it needs more time.
After 30 minutes mine looked like this.
By now your baked pasta dish will be ready.
You need to assemble it.
It will have some oil on the top that separated from the cheese.
The crushed tortilla flakes are perfect for that add them first.
Then add the crumb topping.
Next add the cilantro and scallions.
Finish with pickled onions.
Extra Cheesy Hatch Chile and Cheese Noodle Casserole
There’s always something new, weird, different, special, or limited edition in the wonderful world of food. We never know WTFork we will come across when we shop for food. Up above is
DIFFERENT – Post Disney 100 years of Wonder naturally and artificially flavored “FRUITY” flavored cereal…?????? Fruity can be anything…….it can even be castoreum. I sure hope that it’s not castoreum because that is the fluid from the beaver’s castor sac gland by his butthole……Well whatever this stuff is made from it looks like you will poop Christmas from eating it.
NEW – Wonderworks Keto Friendly Cereal that’s naturally and artificially flavored FRUITY…YIKES Fruity again!
DIFFERENT – Wonderworks Keto Friendly Peanut Butter Cereal….Try this maybe you will go nuts for it?
DIFFERENT – Wonderworks Keto Friendly NATURALLY Flavored chocolate cereal…..Sounds good but don’t know.
DIFFERENT – Kellogg’s It’s Back Cinnabon Cinnamon Roll Cereal….Might be good…might suck?
SPECIAL EDITION – Kellogg’s Red & Blue Color Mix Rice Krispies. Red and blue mixed together makes purple…So that means you will poop purple after eating this.
DIFFERENT – Bushwick Kitchen Trees Knees Spicy Maple Syrup…..This looks like a shampoo bottle…….???? What were they thinking?
NEW – Campbell’s Chuncky Spicy Chicken Quesadilla…….This flavor can’t be good. Who wants a soggy quesadilla?
LIMITED EDITION – Van Leeuwen Campfire S’Mores French Ice Cream. Might be good or just ok…The regular flavors of this ice cream usually are very good.
LIMITED EDITION – Van Leeuwen Hot Honey French Ice Cream – I almost cracked and almost picked this up….Sounds like a hot mess that might be…..(BEE)……delicious????????
DIFFERENT – Hershey’s MILKLICIOUS Kisses…..????? It seems these days they will add anything to Waterdown the chocolate……..
DIFFERENT – Mr Beast Quinoa Crunch Chocolate Bar…..????…..Mr Beast eats quinoa? Who knew?
WEIRD – Cap’n Crunch’s naturally and artificially crunch berry rice crisp bar…..This is the stuff that fuels CEREAL KILLERS.
DIFFERENT – Kettle brand air fried potato chips in jalapeño and Himalayan salt flavored…..Sounds like a great idea!
DIFFERENT – Dr Pepper zero sugar strawberries and cream……It’s different than Dr Pepper….Maybe Dr Pepper when he is sick?
DIFFERENT – Crush Soda in Strawberry and Grapefruit……Crush always was an orange flavored soda…..Nothing is forever anymore.
LIMITED EDITION – Old Bay seasoned Goldfish crackers. They’d be good in soup!
WEIRD – Kroger Deluxe Mermaid Sparkle….WTFork! is that? Blended up Mermaids with fish scales and hair…YUK! Someone must have been on drugs to come up with this one.
And there is usually something Oreo.
DIFFERENT – Deluxe Oreo Brownie made with Oreo Cookie Pieces (probably the little ends that break off in production?)
Well that was the new, weird, different, limited, and special edition for August 2023. Who knows WTFork we’ll come across next month?
