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Mariscos El Ancla – North Las Vegas NV – Very Good Marlin Tacos

Mariscos El Ancla is a Nayarit Mexican Style Seafood Restaurant in North Las Vegas Nevada. They offer a variety of shellfish, ceviches, tostadas, fried fish chips, soups, fajitas, and many different seafood platters.

It’s not a fancy place but it seems clean.

Whatever you order they start you off with complimentary chips and extra hot but very good salsa.

They have a few bottles of hot sauces on the table for embellishing the food. I never saw this interesting and different Mexican Hot Sauce for Seafood.

It has radish, sardines, and chiltepin chili in it.

We start out by sharing a marlin taco.

Oh wow it’s really great! It does actually taste just like marlin tacos that I tried in Jalisco Mexico. I tasted bunches of marlin tacos at various Mexican restaurants in Phoenix and none of them compare to this one. The fish is smoked just right. It looks just like what I had in Mexico. The chipotle sauce is just right too.

For my main I tried the salmon a la plancha.

It’s a large filet of salmon that has been prepared reasonably well. The plate also includes unseasoned steamed vegetables, corn and pea studded white rice, and also is garnished with lettuce and cucumber slices. It’s kind-a very plain for Mexican Food. It’s more like a double sized weight watchers meal.

Moving on

My husband tried the shrimp in medium/hot red sauce (camarones rojo). (this plate also comes with rice and beans that were forgotten but brought out quickly once we mentioned it to our server)

This plate is good but difficult to enjoy for some people.

The sauce is good and the shrimp are cooked nicely…but…….

The whole shrimp contain digestive tracks and shells……..that are hard to clean in the sauce.

I think some people just eat the digestive tracks and shells?

The shrimp dishes aren’t for everyone.

Great Marlin Tacos!

Mariscos El Ancla

3960 W Craig Road North Las Vegas NV

702-291-8131

I haven’t found a website or Facebook Page for Mariscos El Ancia

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Rang’s Cocina Moderne – Notable Off Strip Las Vegas NV Restaurant – Spanish, Italian, Filipino Style – Worth a Fork!

Rang’s Cocina Moderne is a full service Spanish, Italian, Filipino Style Restaurant. They are located not too far from the Las Vegas Strip. They are expectational because even after seven visits everything they serve is always perfect and delicious!

Recently they were featured in Las Vegas Weekly Magazine.

The Big Story to me is that they aren’t a flash in the pan. The food is always very good and always prepared perfect and always is delicious.

Here’s a taste.

Sweet Potato Carrot Ginger Soup
Smoked Salmon and Goat Cheese on Baguette
Dulong – Whitebait, olive oil, garlic ,lemon, caper, red pepper on baguette

Caesar Salad

Gambas Y Chorizo

Albondigas

Bacalao – salt cod potato croquettes
Mushroom Ravioli
Chorizo bolognese
Truffle Mushroom Asparagus Pasta
Fish Florentine with Spinach and Potatoes Anna
Three Cheese Garlic Salmon
Pesto crusted Salmon

Chilean Sea Bass in lemon coconut sauce

Binagoongang Pork Belly with Coconut Risotto
Slow Braised Beef Cheek
NY Strip with citrus, soy sauce, caramelized onions, rice haricots

Bistek

Lemon Meringue Tart
Opera Cake
Inside

Rang’s Cocina Moderne is one of the Notable Off Strip Restaurants of Las Vegas and is Worth a Fork!

Worth a Fork!

Rang’s Cocina Moderne

5900 W Charleston Blvd Las Vegas NV

725-214-1188

www.RangsCocina.com

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Notable Dish Of The Week – Wagyu Pastrami on Rye from La Cantine Sandwich Shop

The WAGYU PASTRAMI sandwich from La Cantine Sandwich Shop is FORKING AMAZING! ….I do note it’s easy to order the wrong sandwich here because they offer TWO different pastrami sandwiches. They offer a pastrami reuben that cost $8.00 LESS than the Wagyu Pastrami Sandwich….YOU WANT TO ORDER THE WAGYU PASTRAMI SANDWICH.

Wagyu Pastrami Sandwich

Not east cost style rye but the hand cut Wagyu Pastrami makes up for it. The pastrami is a mix of just the right delicious flavors, right smoke, and right fat. It’s embellished with kraut, dressing, and melty Swiss.

It’s a really GREAT Pastrami Sandwich.

The hand cut Wagyu Pastrami on Rye from La Cantine Sandwich Shop is The Notable Dish of The Week!

La Cantine Sandwich Shop

3250 Tenya Way Las Vegas NV

702-749-7400

I have not found a website for La Cantine.

They are on Facebook but are NOT ACTIVE There.

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Parmesan Pistachio Crostini Recipe

These Parmesan Pistachio Crostini are basically savory biscotti. We will call them crostini because it is easier to know how they taste when you call them crostini. This recipe makes 20-22 crostini so if one is a serving then you will get around 20 servings. But if you eat two then you will get 10 servings. I made mine pretty small so I will say 10 servings.

Ingredients for around 10 servings

4 oz parmesan cheese – shredded

6 oz bread flour

1 oz polenta

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon sea salt

2 eggs

1+1/2 oz greek yogurt

2 Tablespoons olive oil

2 oz pistachios

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and line sheet pan(s) with silicon mat(s)

Mix together the ingredients (cheese, flour, polenta, baking powder, salt, eggs, yogurt, oil, pistachios.

Make the dough into two logs and refrigerate at least one hour.

Each log goes on a silicon mat lined baking sheet.

They go into the pre-heated 350F oven till lightly browned – 25-45 minutes (ovens do differ) Leave them out until they are cool and then you slice.

Turn down your oven to 300F and the crostini go back in the oven till just slightly brown on each side and also until the crostini is very crisp. 15-35 minutes on BOTH sides.

Parmesan Pistachio Crostini

Enjoy!!!!!!!

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Our Trip to Lit Wings North Las Vegas NV

Lit Wings recently opened a new location in North Las Vegas. This is a casual order and pay at the counter restaurant that specializes in chicken wings. They offer TWENTY ONE flavors of wings or boneless that THEY CALL TENDERS. They also offer several side orders like garlic noodles, fried macaroni and cheese, rice, and shrimp chips. Soft beverages, Asian beverages, beer, and more is served here.

I ordered a 1/2 wing and half tender plate that was buffalo garlic flavored and got elote fries as my side.

I thought they made me the wrong flavor because I wasn’t expecting cheese on buffalo garlic chicken…… I try a wing first…..It’s slightly over cooked and a little dry…I don’t really get a buffalo flavor here ……it mostly taste like parmesan….

I try a tender next….The tender looks more like a nugget to me……But it does have a much better buffalo taste than the wing…….It’s also cooked better than the wings…

Then I try the elote fries.

Part of this is not edible to me because it is painful for me to eat it. For my taste this is very over seasoned.

My husband tried 1/2 buffalo hot and half Nashville hot wings with fried macaroni and cheese.

They gave him much plumper wings than what they gave me. But his wings are also over cooked and on the dry side. He wasn’t wild about the flavors either. The fried macaroni and cheese taste very similar to Kraft Mac-n-Cheese so if you like that all is good.

At the time of my visit this location of Lit Wings has an impressive FIVE STAR average on Yelp out of 49 reviews.

Lit Wings

6520 Losee Rd North Las Vegas NV

702-533-6249

www.GetLitWings.com

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La Cantine Sandwich Shop – Las Vegas NV – Worth a Fork!

La Cantine Sandwich Shop is located in the North/West part of Las Vegas Nevada. They offer a variety of sandwiches made on house baked breads. They also offer salads, quiches, salads, sides, and French Style macarons.

It’s a small place. I noticed most customers I saw did take out.

They offer a pastrami reuben and also a wagyu pastrami on rye….The wagyu pastrami cost $8. more than the pastrami reuben so I thought it would be better so I went with that.

The seedless rye doesn’t really taste like rye bread that I am familiar with but the pastrami is FORKING AMAZING! In fact it taste just like my pastrami…….(I wonder if they used my recipe?) There’s kraut, there’s dressing, There’s melty Swiss that I pulled out and ate first….Then I ate the sandwich. This sandwich is very messy but really delicious. The pastrami was hand cut. It’s tender. It’s smoky but not too smoky. It has some fat to it but not too much fat. But most importantly IT FORKING TASTE LIKE PASTRAMI.

My husband had a ham and cheese baguette.

He said that the ham is unusually great ham that you just don’t get anywhere. This sandwich also had brie cheese, pickles, herb butter, and garlic confit. This was a really great sandwich.

We tried macarons for a sweet ending.

First one was an Earl Grey.

Ummm it’s very good and really different.

Next is strawberry.

UMMMMMM!!!!! This one is really such a treat…..It has flavors of a really rich cake but with pops of strawberry…Kinda like a strawberry short cake with cream.

These are really great macarons!

La Cantine Sandwich Shop is Worth a Fork!

Worth a Fork!

La Cantine Sandwich Shop

3250 Tenya Way Las Vegas NV

702-749-7400

I haven’t found a website for La Cantine Sandwich Shop.

They are on Facebook but are not active there.

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Casa De Juliette Mexican Cocina Las Vegas NV – Newly Opened

Casa De Juliette Mexican Cocina recently opened in the Centennial Hills part of Las Vegas Nevada. They offer elevated Mexican Cuisine by way of French Techniques blended with Mexican Cooking. They offer food like Mexican Street Corn in bone marrow with salsa macha. Another unique offering are the family style platters that serve two or three people.

Inside is dark but also light enough to read the menu.

They have traditional tables, booths, partial booths, a bar area, and also some outdoor seating.

We tried a Margarita and a Valle de Bravo.

Due to an opening hiccup we waited over thirty minutes for our cocktails to arrive. They came with the dinner.

We had a family style platter of Chicken Tinga and Carne Asada.

and bone marrow corn.

The flavors are all good here ……..We got all kinds of goodies here (carne asada, chicken tinga, tortillas, rice, beans, creama, pickled carrot and cauliflower, salsa morita, salsa verde, jalapeños, bell peppers, onion, radishes and bone marrow corn) but due to another opening hiccup the food arrived already cooled off…..

Casa De Juliette Mexican Cocina – Newly Opened

7585 Norman Rockwell Lane Las Vegas NV

702-665-4949

www.CasaDeJuliette.com

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Notable Dish Of The Week – 10 oz. Ground In House Prime Rib Burger from Carved Prime Rib at The Cannery Hotel Casino North Las Vegas NV

North Las Vegas is lucky to have one of the better burgers of Vegas from Carved Prime Rib at The Cannery. The burger has a nice beefy prime rib type of taste that most burgers don’t have. It is also a very large burger and some people will get two meals out of it. The burger comes topped with cheese sautéed mushrooms and onions. Lettuce, sliced pickles, and tomato comes on the side. Actually the burger does come with cheese (Swiss) but substitutions are allowed and my husband usually gets cheddar or American Cheese on his burger. Skinny fries come on the side in a hot heated bowl.

The Notable Dish of the Week is the 10 oz. Ground in House Prime Rib Burger from Carved Prime Rib at The Cannery Hotel/Casino.

Carve Prime Rib at The Cannery Hotel/Casino

2121 E Craig Rd North Las Vegas NV

702-507-5777

www.Cannery.BoydGaming.com

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Showing Off

Here’s some potato stuffed potatoes and cookies. Today the potatoes were topped with brown butter, scallions, and thyme.

The next week I made 2 pizzas.

One was fresh mozzarella, smoked scamorza, parmesan, sauce, home made pesto, fresh basil

The other was spiced butternut squash with cannoli cream, pistachios, pistachio cream

They went real fast……

Made rye rolls and cocktail sized rye rolls.

Cocktail Rye Rolls

I stuffed the tiny rye rolls with tuna/trout mousse and pickled onion.

I forgot to photo the next week but it was Macaroni and cheese stuffed potatoes and some brownies.

FORKING GREAT Fudgy Brownies

They all get gobbled down fast.

Just showing off some stuff I made recently.

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Our Trip to NdUlegence Restaurant – Las Vegas NV

NdUlegence is a unique restaurant located in Downtown Las Vegas Nevada near to the strip. It’s one of several hidden kitchens in this building. You order on-line or type in your order at a kiosk. You either take out or eat at the seating here.

They offer sides like fried green tomatoes and salads like BBQ Chicken. They also offer 1/2 pound wagyu burgers, creamy cajun pasta with chicken or shrimp. Some of the entrees that you can find here are smoked beef brisket, loaded jerk chicken potatoes, pork belly mac-N-cheese, and lamb chops. They also offer different sides like fried cabbage, grilled root vegetables, and dirty beans.

We started out by sharing some of the fried green tomatoes.

These are really tasty and good. They even got a little zip to them and come with romulade sauce.

I tried the BBQ Chicken Salad.

I have to it’s an ultra generous portion and there is LOTS of moist chicken breast. Under is mixed soft greens, onions, tomatoes, pecans, cranberries, strawberries, and tangerines. With a thin strawberry dressing. As far as salads go this is pretty good.

My husband tried the pork belly macaroni and cheese. It’s also a generous large portion of food.

For his taste the pork belly could be more tender and the rest is ok.

That was our trip to NdUlegence.

NdUlegence 809 N Main St Las Vegas NV

702-767-0723

www.NdUlegenceLV.com

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