6 Street Bistro – Page 14 – A charming little place on 6th Street

Gordon Ramsey Pub & Grill

July 10, 2021July 10, 2021rob

Birthdays mean one thing around here: Food. One thing that is not commonly found on menus is the classic Beef Wellington. It is hard to make because you have to bake the filet inside a pastry sheet where you cant poke or prod it to tell how done it is. Chef Gordon Ramsey is famous for this and we happen to have 4 of his restaurants in town. (along with all the other FoodTV personalities)

The Pub and Grill is inside the wonderful Caesars complex (my favorite casino). The food and service was good, but the bill did reflect that. Casinos are expensive and you are paying for Gordon’s name.

Overall we would have to agree that the Beef Wellington across the street at the Paris Eiffel Tower was better in looks, taste, size, and sides. Plus you can watch the Bellagio fountains. Thank you for a fun birthday evening

French Onion Soup: Very good. Not very hot, but good flavor balance

Lobster Shrimp Roll: They added lemon and cucumber to cut the heavy fattiness. Very good.

Beef Wellington: This was very rare not medium rare as specified. Gordon would be screaming at the cooks if he saw this. Good but could have used some more salt / seasoning. The wine demi was more like a brown gravy than a wine reduction.

Burning off those calories in the forum shops

Tres Leches Cake and flowers (Yahtzee Lavender Mums in the back)

Independence Day

July 5, 2021August 22, 2021rob

The small town really puts on a big show for the 4th of July. The rotary club puts on a pancake breakfast followed by a parade and vintage plane fly over. The planes fly in small groups and go right over the main street.

The parade is unique in my experience as there are wet and dry floats. The dry floats are your typical entries of horses, marchers, classic cars and special interest groups. The wet floats have water tanks on board. The last 2 blocks turn into a giant water fight with the floats firing water at the crowd and the crowd shooting water at the drivers. I have made the mistake of walking back from the store after the parade ended and had buckets of water thrown on me.

The park then puts on a 30 minute firework show. They have a DJ pumping out crappy pop music and big crowds on the grassy areas. We watched from down by the airport this year which avoided the traffic and loud PA speakers.

Lake Mead still has a little water in it

Feast on July 4th night – Brats, Macaroni Salad, Green Salad, Grilled Corn with husks

Yellowstone

July 3, 2021July 3, 2021rob

We drove to Yellowstone last week. NV>AZ>UT>ID>MT>WY and back for over 2000 miles. We rented a Mazda from National and stayed at a Best Western at the West Entrance.

I knew about Old Faithful that blows every hour or so but I did not know that there are hundreds of other geysers, vents, and springs. It is a huge park and we only saw a small part of it. You could spend weeks here. Some springs are constantly boiling and venting. Some geysers go off regularly throughout the day. Some are unpredictable and go off every 100 years. Some smell like steam and others reak of sulfer. Yellowstone gets swarms of small earthquakes causing some to speculate that the magma below could erupt at any time.

We saw buffalo, a small black bear, elk, and deer. We did not see any moose or wolves. I expected to see more rabbits and rodents than we did – maybe the wolves are to blame.

It was nice to see S and T up in Bozeman. Thanks to K and A for watching Miss Lulu.

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Lemongrass Tea

June 26, 2021June 26, 2021rob

If you thought cold-brew coffee was the definition of delayed gratification, you need to grow your own tea. When I was in Coleman prison in Florida, the pharmacist Jude introduced me to lemongrass tea. He had bushes of it at his house. He would cut off a large handful each morning and put it in a thermos of boiling water. In a few hours he would open the thermos and the room would smell devine. The most amazing tea I have ever had.

Go to your local asian grocery store to get large lemongrass stalks with as much root ball as possible.

Soak in water and put in peat moss – keep moist. Let the sun do it’s thing.

Wait….

Cut off 10 or so blades of grass, coil them up inside a thermos and fill with boiling water.

Let it steep for an hour or so.

If you are in a hurry you can boil them on a burner until you see it change color.

Chop a handful of blades, add to a thermos of boiling water.

Dam Taco Truck

June 26, 2021June 26, 2021rob

I come across so much awful Mexican food around the country in my travels. I need to restore my faith by hitting up the taco truck in town. The workers are super friendly and there is a good comradery among the other patrons as you wait for your order. Their street tacos are superb. So good that I have yet to get a picture of them. I did remember to take a picture of the Big Dam Burrito. I still have a few things on the menu I need to try.

3T’s Fathers Day Shoot

June 20, 2021June 20, 2021rob

The 3 T’s coordinated a shooting extravaganza in the desert for Fathers Day. 3 Generations were there giving the younger folk some safety training. A good variety of tools were available for all to try out. The 110F heat really made it interesting.

The new Benelli kicks like a mule but I discovered that is because I was using 1600fps ammo. They say to drop it to under 1200fps for best results. Remington makes a lower recoil 1000fps slug for target shooting. Who has this in stock is the big question

The original founders of Shooting Group T

The tent could use some air conditioning next year

Shooting from the ground to keep things steady

Zen Curry House

June 19, 2021June 20, 2021rob

Everyone knows about Indian Curry. Few know about Japanese curry houses. We have a few in town and this is Zen over on Spring Mountain. You have sticky rice instead of basmati. The curry sauce is similar to masala and you can pick your spice level. Then you build your own plate adding katsu, shrimp, eggs, or any of a dozen other options. It is interesting and visually appealing.

Personally, I like Tomoko’s home made curry much better. She adds lots of veggies and it has a different consistency. Similar to how you can make a much better spaghetti sauce at home than at a restaurant by adding lots of ingredients.

It is worth a try if you want a change of pace.

Fried Shumai (like a potsticker with pork and shrimp)

Pork Katsu, boiled chicken, and fried egg

Milo’s Cellar

June 13, 2021June 13, 2021Tomoko

We had lunch at Milo’s on Saturday to meet with Kevin and his girlfriend, Abby.

I forgot to take a picture with everyone 🙁

Oh well, we will have more opportunity to take pictures later time!

Rob ordered Ruben sandwich and I had Lobster and Crab meat sandwich, they both were delicious!

Family Reunion

June 13, 2021June 13, 2021Tomoko

Rob’s sisters were visiting their mother, Margie, at Lake Havasu from 06/07/2021 to 06/11/2021.

On the last day, they were able to stop by at our place for a photo opportunity of three siblings all together!

Margie has been wanting to see them all at the same time. They look super happy!

Margie, Rob, (Lulu is in Rob’s arm), Jana, and Kathie

I baked Quiche for breakfast on the last day

Sapporo Revolving Sushi

June 6, 2021June 7, 2021Tomoko

The three T’s group celebrated my belated birthday last night at Sapporo Revolving Sushi.

We all have such busy schedules yet they made time for me…. Thank you so much, you all are very sweet!

No food pictures at this time (we were too busy eating and talking), and I know I over-ate and the bill came out astronomical — my apologies everyone 🙁

We certainly had a wonderful time, and we are going to see each other very soon on Father’s Day <3