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Click on a Title to View The 107 2-1 Happy Hour Tje Colossal Brownie Sundae Turkey Day - 2011 Brunch Preparations - Our House Pot Roast - Blue Plate Special Sunday Brunch - At Harlow's Lobster Roll - A Taste of Maine

The 107 2-1 Happy Hour

On 11/29/2011 we attended the 2-1 happy hour at the 107 Lounge, located on the 107th floor of the Stratosphere Tower on the Las Vegas Strip. Without a doubt, the best view of the city, it is even more impressive at night when the city is in full glow. We ordered the Cheese Plate Combination with St Andre, Maytag Blue and Manchego cheeses, fresh seedless grapes, dried apricots, and multigrain and walnut raisin toast (shown above), to accompany our Blue-Tini’s (made with Absolut Açai Berri Vodka, Stolichnaya Blueberi Vodka, fresh lemon and blueberry) and Chocolate Masterpiece Martini (made with Godiva Chocolate Vodka and dark and white Godiva Chocolate Liqueur).

The Colossal Brownie Sundae!

Now this is a dessert! Filled with twelve decadent chunks of freshly-baked brownies layered with six scoops of vanilla bean and chocolate ice cream, topped with caramel and chocolate sauces then buried in mounds of whipped cream and a cherry. This photo was taken on a dinner trip to Bucca di Beppo’s Italian restaurant back in November of 2011 with Jim Herring and Patrick Adams.

Turkey Day - 2011

For out 2011 Thanksgiving Day dinner we went to Mimi’s Café in Henderson, Nevada. Though I didn’t get pictures of everything, it was accompanied with homemade Roasted Tomato & Basil Bisque, French Onion soup, a warm bread basket that included Mimi’s famous carrot raisin nut bread and other assorted breads and biscuits, and two huge squares of Mimi’s Bread Pudding.

Brunch Preparations – Our House

One of the key ingredients for any good meal is a relaxing atmosphere and good presentation. So when we invited Jim Herring and his friend Patrick Adams over for brunch on 11/06/2011, we tried to offer them both. After a start of  mimosas and a fruit cup topped with a dollop of French Vanilla ice cream, accompanied by a warm fresh baked pumpkin bread, we chowed down on eggs, garlic browned potatoes, bacon, and English muffins with coffee and refills on mimosas. Here is a picture of Patrick, “digging in”.

Pot Roast – Blue Plate Special

For whatever reason, I always seem to enjoy looking at photos of food taken by other photographers and suddenly realized that I had a few of my own, so why not create a new category to begin displaying them. The above picture was taken on 10/17/2011 at Harlow’s restaurant inside the Golden Nugget casino in Laughlin, Nevada. We went there to try their the 3-6 p.m. blue-plate special on the recommendation of a waiter. One of three daily specials, the Pot-roast Dinner special, at only $5.99 with a complementary glass of wine, was phenomenal . We both agreed that it was the most tender pot roast we’ve ever eaten.

Sunday Brunch - At Harlow's

On 10/16/2011 we headed over to the Golden Nugget for the Sunday Champagne Brunch at Harlow’s restaurant. Because his has been voted the best Champagne Brunch in Laughlin we thought we would give it a try and boy were we glad we did. With more than three dozen items to choose from, we sampled the frogs legs, escargot in a garlic butter sauce, crab legs, sliced breast of duck in a cherry reduction sauce, the largest shrimp I’ve ever seen on a buffet, made to order waffles w/ice cream, strawberries and whipped cream, steamed asparagus, prime rib, and cherries jubilee for dessert. It was an unbelievable feast. For the picture above, I used a tilt-shift effect to better emphasize the crab, shrimp and oysters.

Lobster Roll - A Taste of Maine

Back on 10/08/2011, we went to Planet Hollywood on the Strip to try out the relatively new restaurant, “Lobster ME”. Their signature item is advertised as the world’s best lobster roll. Large pieces of lobster meat are prepared in their 'secret' version of the traditional fashion before being generously layered into locally made, freshly toasted rolls and topped with the meat of three claws. Though we both would have preferred a lobster roll with a little more mayo, there was no denying that it was filled with lobster meat and was without a doubt the best lobster roll we’ve had since leaving New England. Not cheap at $20 each, they still made for a very enjoyable dinner.