Category Archives: Forking Thoughts

Taste Budz Creole Kitchen North Las Vegas NV – Toughest Beef of the Year

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I heard positive things about Taste Budz Creole Kitchen on Eater Las Vegas so I wanted to give this restaurant a try. It’s a casual mostly Cajun type restaurant with two locations in North Las Vegas Nevada.

I read on Eater Las Vegas that the Chef is someone known as Celebrity Chef Trish. (Her likeness is painted on the wall below.)

It is very casual. You order and pay at the counter.

Lots of bright paintings on the walls to look at while you are waiting for your order.

I tried to eat the Jerk Salmon Entree with Macaroni and Cheese and Sweet Potatoes.

There is gross black stuff on the fish that might be leftover crud from a flat top or pan. The fish has a weird texture and is almost impossible to cut with a fork. But the taste is worst. It is so hot that it is not edible. The macaroni and cheese was re-heated too many times so it’s not so good. The sweet potatoes are like canned and are turning to mush.

The Cajun steak is so tough that even an alligator would give up on trying to eat it…. The food served to us I would consider it to be below standard and I would not recommend.

The toughest beef of the year came from –

Taste Budz Creole Kitchen

1917 N Decatur Blvd North Las Vegas NV

702-245-3067

www.TasteBudzCreoleKitchen.com

Every THING is subject to change.

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Showing Off

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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.

Pizza Rolls (no exact recipe…just make pizza or focaccia dough, fill with desired pizza toppings (these were lasagna cheese filling and pizza sauce) and roll like cinnamon buns. Finish with pizza seasoning and a little shredded parmesan)

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

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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.

Pizza Rolls

Everyone will love them and they make a great appetizers for entertaining.

Enjoy!!!

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NORMS – Las Vegas NV – Least Notable Meal of the Week

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NORMS are famous 24/7 California Diner Restaurants and one opened fairly recently in Las Vegas Nevada not too far from the strip. I only heard good things about NORMS and saw them featured on several local TV Shows so I wanted to give them a try. It’s very busy and energetic inside.

It also looks like a diner inside with a mix of all kinds of different tables, bar seating and booths. There are several dining areas on different sides of the bar.

We went with entrees and they are reasonably priced and come with soup and salad. We started with soups…..(actually my husband eat them both because they are not for me)

Creamy chicken noodle soup – A bit too thick but OK.

Gumbo – Not great like Emeril’s but still tasty and ok according to my husband.

Salads were next.

I tried my salad with blue cheese dressing. Too bad …….it taste like they thinned down the dressing too much and it doesn’t taste like blue cheese anymore. My husband the Italian dressing doesn’t have much flavor either.

For my main I tried the grilled wild whitefish.

The grilled whitefish has a light unflavored breading on it. This would taste better if it came with a sauce. I use some hot sauce that is on the table and it helps. The potato is kinda hard and very difficult to mash the butter in with a fork.

But there is no help for the vegetables. They even look like they have expired.

Over cooked old squash….ick

My husband tried the Chicken Fried Steak.

It’s kinda bland. The carrot fingers are kind of wood-ee. Real fresh carrots would taste better. The tater tots have a very hard exteriors.

NORMS does give you a lot of food but you have to not care what it taste like.

NORMS was the least notable meal of the week.

NORMS

4605 W Charleston Blvd Las Vegas NV

702-475-9976

www.NORMS.com

Every THING is subject to change.

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Notable Dish Of The Week – Pork Belly Nom Pang from Nom Pang Las Vegas NV

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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

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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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PRINGLES – Everything Bagel VS Hot Honey

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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

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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

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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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