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Notable Dinner of the Week – Monzu Italian Oven & Bar $62. Chef’s Table Menu – Worth a Fork!

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Monzu Italian Oven & Bar is an Italian Restaurant not far from the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. They offer house made bread and pizzas made with a three hundred year old natural starter that gives the bread and pizzas a sophisticated developed taste. They offer many starters, salads, pizzas, entrees, desserts, bar drinks, and Italian Wines. Certain hours they also have live music.

We always get the $62. Chef’s Table Menu. It’s always different. They do customize for your taste. It’s also way more food than you can eat so you always have leftovers to bring home.

Whatever you order they start you off with their amazing country bread that is served with olive oil and house made ricotta cheese.

Then with the $62. Chef’s Table Menu you might get Antipasti like this….

There was four kinds of Italian meats, four kinds of Italian cheeses, Italian fried breads, pistachio crusted goat cheese, walnuts, and sage fried anchovies. On previous visits I remembered getting a fried artichoke and another time we got fried stuffed squash blossoms.

Next courses were –

Kale salad with pomegranate and fennel salad with crunchy sweet fennel

Crepe lasagna with beef

Potato Gnocchi with walnuts and gorgonzola sauce

This is their pesto multi cheese pizza. I think I’ve tasted the very best pizzas here. They are like no other and “POP” the most. Delicious amazing developed crust and spectacular toppings. Then the pizzas go straight up to the Stratosphere with the crushed Calabrian Chilies and the garlic marscapone condiments….WOW! You won’t get this anywhere-else.

tender Lamb Chops with roasted potatoes

Tender Hanger Steak with herb sauce and roasted potatoes

Citrus Doughnut, pistachio dipped cannolis, nougat, cookies is a sweet ending.

The $66. Chef’s Table Menu from Monzu Italian Oven & Bar is The Notable Dinner of the week and also is Worth a Fork!

WORTH A FORK!

Monzu Italian Oven and Bar

6020 W Flamingo Rd Las Vegas Nevada

702-749-5959

www.MonzuLV.com

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Showing Off

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Showing off is just to show you that I cook stuff. The majority of what you see here can be found as a recipe here www.TheForkingTruth.com Of course I don’t photo everything just the special occasion stuff I make for gatherings. Up above egg salads stuffed into cracker cups I made (cracker cups are just bread crisps that I shaped different).

Below are butternut squash filled fried crepes with 5 spice and some orange ginger sauce.

Honey Apple Cake

An unusual visit from The Giant Aussie Shepard/Cattledog. She seems oddly enchanted with the honey apple cake. Don’t worry I let her have some and she lapped it up. My smaller dog is running around barking right now. If I made something with cheese or chicken he would be here.

Mini Potato Knishes with the Honey Apple Cake

Potato Cheddar Pierogi

Cheesy Potato Filled Potatoes and Wasabi Potato filled Potatoes

Mini Bouchon Bites topped with chocolate pots de creme and a cherry (Bouchon Bakery recipe for really great chocolate cakes)

Plain pizza with a variety of fresh cheeses and with slow roasted tomatoes and home grown basil

Enjoy!!!

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Forking Thoughts – My Local Supermarket is Always a MESS!

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My local supermarket is always a mess.

This you just have to see to believe.

It’s also not as clean as I would like.

I always get blocked off from going down an aisle and forget to go back…..

I hate when the packaged food is also messy.

Sometimes it’s a mess as soon as you walk in.

This is NUTS.,,,,I can’t get to the nuts.

Sometimes things are spilled on the floor.

Instead of mopping the floor they just throw these orange pads on the floor.

Poor dog.

Another poor dog.

Another FILTHY shelf.

Some of the food you buy here has already been on the floor.

My local Supermarket is always a mess!

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Notable Dish Of The Week – Prime Rib Burger from Carve Prime Rib at The Cannery Hotel/Casino North Las Vegas NV

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The most Notable Dish of the week was the ten ounce ground in house Prime Rib Burger from Carve Prime Rib at The Cannery in North Las Vegas Nevada. It’s just so darn flavorful and juicy. The majority of burgers out there just don’t come close to the delicious flavors here in this burger. I prefer my burger without cheese but Swiss cheese is the cheese that is included with this burger. The great BIG burger comes with sautéed mushrooms, the usual lettuce, tomato, onion, pickle, and skinny fries in a heated bowl. Some people will get two meals out of it and some people do eat the whole thing.

The Ground In House Ten Ounce Prime Rib Burger is the Notable Dish of the Week!

Carve Prime Rib at The Cannery Hotel Casino North Las Vegas Nevada

2121 E Craig Road North Las Vegas Nevada

702-507-5777

www.Cannery.BoydGaming.com

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Notable Dish Of The Week – Emeril’s Banana Cream Pie from Delmonico Steakhouse at The Venetian By Emeril Las Vegas NV

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This was a better than average week with a lot of great food. One of the dishes that is always incredible is Emeril’s Banana Cream Pie. It’s so life changing that even if you hate banana cream pies you will love this one. My husband HATES banana cream pies but also loves Emeril’s Banana Cream Pie because it really is FORKING AMAZING and like no other. It’s just FORKING DELICIOUS. It is a sin and a shame if you go anywhere where there is a Emeril’s Restaurant and don’t get the Banana Cream Pie.

Available in several states but my last one was at….

Delmonico Steakhouse at The Venetian by Emeril

3355 Las Vegas Blvd S Las Vegas NV

702-414-3737

www.DelmonicoSteakhouse.com

www.EmerilsRestaurants.com

www.VenetianLasVegas.com

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Supermarket Discounts are getting harder to do now

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Back in the old days……..(not so long ago)…..You only needed your shoppers card to get your supermarket discount sale items.

Besides using your shopper’s card…….several years back they added an annoying digital add on to get discounted sale prices.

Now there is another new choice for discounts.

Now we suffer with Delivery or Drive up and go prices.

UGH!!!!!

And That’s The Forking Truth

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Notable Dish Of The Week – Japanese Baby Peaches from – Bazaar Mar by Jose Andres – Las Vegas NV

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Bazaar Mar is a Seafood Tapas Restaurant with Spanish Embellishments by multi award wining and Michelin Stared Chef and Restauranteur Jose Andres and Team. This week it was quite hard to pick the notable dish since almost any from Bazaar Mar could be the Notable dish. A close choice for me would have been the mini fish shaped sandwich on a special hallow bread called bagel and lox. It was really exciting but the Japanese Peaches with za’atar were also extra exciting.

Japanese Baby Peaches from Bazaar Mar

The little green fruits are the Japanese Peaches. The plate also contains stracciatella cheese, hazelnuts, little crunchy bites, fresh green leaves, and za’atar.

You are suppose to gather one of each on your spoon to eat it.

It’s so interesting…..So different……It’s also light and refreshing.

The Japanese Baby Peaches from Bazaar Mar is the Notable Dish of The Week!

Bazaar Mar (located in The Shops at Crystals)

3720 Las Vegas Blvd S Las Vegas NV

702-803-1100

www.TheBazaar.com

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Showing Off

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Showing Off is just to show you that I am still cooking or baking things.

Up above is a plain pizza with a good amount of fresh mozzarella on it.

Next is a slightly different onion galette. I used asiago cheese and added seeds and flake sea salt to the ends of the crust.

Below are spaghetti cupcakes

Next are-

Baked Salmon Mousse Balls and I also made a Mandarin Ginger Sauce to go with them and they sit on these cute little cracker bowls.

Sweet Potato Hand Pies

From the leftover sweet potato filling I just added an egg, more sugar, flour, baking powder, baking soda, pomegranate, and a few chocolate chips, and then embellished the tops.

Sweet potato bites with pomegranate and chocolate chips

Lightly Pickled Deviled Eggs

I packaged them like this.

That was a little bit of showing off.

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My FORKING Thoughts on Savoursmiths Truffle Rosemary Vegan Luxury English Potato Chips

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I noticed these Savoursmiths Truffle Rosemary Potato Chips for around $6.99 a bag at my local Sprouts Grocery. They became discontinued and were marked down to a $1. a bag so I decided to give them a try.

The bag is marked Vegan and the ingredients don’t seem too far out so they seem safe to try.

I open the bag and take a whiff.

They smell strange…………Maybe a little like a herbal soap?

I pour some out.

The chips differ in size from small to large in size and do appear to have bubbly layers in the chips……

Texture-wise the chips are amazing. Crisp but not too crisp with layers also dry and not oily.

but-

The chips are coated very heavy with powders and are over seasoned. They even seem cheesy but cheese is not listed in the ingredients.

Between the cheesy taste, mushroom, onion, garlic, thyme, rosemary, truffle it is all too much and is far too powdery to enjoy.

Those were my FORKING Thoughts on Savoursmiths Truffle and Rosemary Chips.

Your FORKING Thoughts may indeed differ.

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My Forking Thoughts on Pumpkin Pie M&M’s – Oy Veh

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I used to love M&M’s Candies. I grew up enjoying the original and peanut varieties and latter I enjoyed the almond variety. Over the decades these candies changed things up and also introduced new flavors. Some I liked and some I didn’t care for……It’s been a very long time since I found a new flavor so I gave these Pumpkin Pie M&M’s a try.

WOW! It says on the front of bag ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR ………how good can that be?……..

Anyways

The M&M’s are different colors (Orange, Brown, White) and different sizes? Regular and mega?

I taste some…….I taste some more……

These are just too fake tasting to identify.

They sure DON’T TASTE ANYTHING LIKE PUMPKIN PIE

But even worse……

They don’t taste like chocolate either….

They are kinda sweet but not too sweet like some of them….

They just don’t taste like anything familiar.

Those were my FORKING THOUGHTS on Pumpkin Pie M&M’s I do note that YOUR FORKING THOUGHTS may indeed differ.

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