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Burnt Ends Wedge Salad

Inspired by Eater Vegas, which recently highlighted the Burnt Ends Wedge Salad as one of the best salads in Las Vegas at both the Four Sixes Ranch Steakhouse pop-up at Wynn and Flanker Kitchen + Sports Bar at Mandalay Bay, this version brings the indulgent dish to life at home.

The salad masterfully combines two comfort-food favorites—the classic steakhouse wedge and smoky, tender barbecue. Crisp iceberg lettuce provides a refreshing crunch, while the creamy, spicy tang of Tabasco Blue Cheese Ranch dressing sets the stage for the star ingredient: juicy, caramelized beef brisket burnt ends. Rich, unctuous, and utterly mouthwatering, the burnt ends elevate the salad into a truly crave-worthy experience.

Burnt Ends Wedge Salad Recipe

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Loaf-Pan Focaccia and Avocado Toast

Small-Batch Focaccia and Avocado Toast

🫒 🧀 🍞 Loaf-Pan Focaccia 🍞 🧀 🫒
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🥑 Avocado Focaccia Toasts 🥑

Small-batch focaccia dough is topped with olive salad, mozzarella and parmesan cheeses, and baked in a loaf pan. It is heavenly, served warm with herbaceous fruity olive oil and aged balsamic vinegar for dipping.

The leftover portion is wrapped up and saved for the next morning’s breakfast – avocado toasts served two ways, plain and loaded. Focaccia is great as a sandwich bread, and loaf-pan focaccia makes for the absolute best avocado toast!

The dough is made with five simple ingredients – bread flour, instant yeast, salt, water, and olive oil. Compared to all-purpose, the amount of protein found in bread flour is higher in order to contain and produce more gluten and achieve the desired rise in bread. Because of this higher protein level, bread flour is able to absorb more liquid, allowing it to hold its shape and rise upward. The high amount of gluten in bread flour also creates a more elastic dough, which helps achieve focaccia’s airy crumb and chewy texture. Olive oil is added to the dough for tenderness and flavor.

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Smoked Salmon Grilled Cheese

🧀 Smoked Salmon Grilled Cheese Sandwich 🧀
Inspired By Eric Ripert

The Chef is a genius at pairing seafood with minimal ingredients to create a dish where the diner is astonished that those simple components could be combined in such a way to result in something so spectacular.

Here a plain old grilled cheese sandwich is perfect in its four-star simplicity with just four items: smoked salmon, Swiss cheese, bread, and butter. After I came across this Instagram post by Eric Ripert, and being a lover of salmon in all its preparations, Smoked Salmon Grilled Cheese just had to be on my menu.

At Le Bernardin Chef Ripert is world-renowned for his exquisite, clean, seafood-centered cuisine. With this sandwich he proves that every dish does not have to be fancy to be sublime.

Smoked Salmon Grilled Cheese Recipe

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