Spotlight on Iron Horse Tavern Loco Moco
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Spotlight
Iron Horse Tavern Loco Moco
You’ve probably had loco moco, or at least heard of it. It’s a Hawaiian breakfast with white rice, two hamburger patties, gravy and sunny side up eggs. It’s good. Everyone seems to like it and they serve it everywhere. I had some in Japan and it kind of made me feel like I was home - a nice change after the octopus sucker. Anyway, I thought I had had loco moco, too, until I tried the one at Iron Horse. Wowza! Now, THAT’S loco moco!
Don’t get me wrong. It is not traditional loco moco. That’s one of the reasons I like Iron Horse. They put their spin on everything and quite a spin they found for this dish! The white rice? NOT. It’s fried rice with this pork chunk in there that is out of this world. Every time you get one it’s like a flavor bomb. The hamburger patties are always cooked a perfect medium rare, just like we order it, and they’re thick and juicy and flavorful. The sunny side up eggs are dead-on perfect every time, but the real secret? Their gravy! GET EXTRA! I don’t know what they put in there (and I probably don’t want to know) but it fires up those serotonin receptors like it’s the 4th of July! Once you mix that gravy with the unctuous egg yolks and one of those pork flavor bombs, you’ll be spoiled forever. Real, authentic loco moco will never satisfy your loco moco craving again.
This is not an every day meal, obviously. It’s not only a flavor bomb, but with all of that gravy and pork fat, I’d really rather not see the nutrition menu - and the only vegetable you’re going to get is the three slices of green onion they put on it for garnish, but next time you’re ready to splurge, I’m telling you, you cannot go wrong with the Iron Horse loco moco. We get one order to split between two of us, and leave not a trace for the dishwasher.
Iron Horse Tavern
460 Palladio Parkway
Folsom, CA 95630
(916) 618-4322
Newsworthy
From the City: “The city will begin an annual street maintenance project starting August 8 on various arterial roadways throughout Folsom. The project consists of localized asphalt repairs, application of a slurry seal, and new roadway striping with buffered bike lanes. The following roads will receive the slurry treatment this year:
Iron Point Road between Folsom Boulevard and Ingersoll Way
Iron Point Road between East Bidwell Street and McAdoo Drive
Broadstone Parkway between East Bidwell Street and Iron Point Road
Oak Avenue Parkway between American River Canyon Drive and Baldwin Dam Road
Work will take place from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and will continue until late September. At least one single-lane will remain open to traffic at all times.”
The crystal blue waters of Lake Tahoe may be about to get crystaler bluer. That’s because the waters have gone through some major changes in the last few years, most notably that the Mysis shrimp population, a non-native plankton, has pretty much gone away. "It will come back,” said UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) director Geoffrey Schladow, “but its life history in Lake Tahoe would mean that it may take it three or four years to come back, during which time the lake is going to make a number of very large adjustments.” One of those adjustments is a shift to much clearer water. According to this article from KCRA3 “That's because the Mysis shrimp have historically dominated a native Lake Tahoe zooplankton species called Daphnia. Daphnia is known to help clean up particles in the water that can lead to cloudiness.”
Thanks to a new business in El Dorado Hills, you can have your x-ray come to you, rather than going to the doctor’s office or hospital to get them done. “(I thought) I’m gonna take the corporate out of it and I’m going to do it individually and try to make it happen. That way, patients get the care they need at an affordable price,” owner Valerie Rondone explained. She likens the concept to a doctor making house calls. It took 18 months of red tape, but she can now take Medicare, so she can start to get her business off the ground. According to this article in Village Life, she covers both El Dorado Hills and the Folsom area.
Hey! Did you know?
This handy dandy site lets you put in the name of a town and it tells you everyone that has been arrested there, when and where they were arrested and what they were arrested for. Or you can search by name. Wondering why you haven’t heard from weird Uncle Felix in a while? Look him up!
Looking to do one of those amazing wine tasting events or winemaker’s dinners that I put in my Hap’nins from time to time, but you’re not looking forward to the DUI on the way home? Hire someone to drive you in your car from destinationdrivers.com. I guess the deal is that it’s cheaper than a limo and less likely to reveal your secrets than your 16 year old kid.
Hap’nins
Canyon Grill and Alehouse will welcome you with Open Arms and serve you your burger Any Way You Want It, when Journey cover band Journey’s Edge takes the stage there on August 27th.
Head over to Red Bus Brewing on Mondays and hang with Chad for Trivia with Chad! Bring your brainiac friends (you know, the ones that understood the hanging chad reference).
Bring the whole Fam Damily out for Yoga in the Park at Luken Park in Roseville on August 13th at 9:00 a.m. Or, if you and your peeps are more Zumba than you are Zen, try the Zumba Dance Party at Royer Park on October 8th. Both are part of the Be Well Roseville Series.
Take a tour of the Wakamatsu Farm night sky on Saturday August 27th at 8:00 p.m. Learn about constellations and their mythologies, the embedded landmark stars, and planets in view. Listen to this relaxing tour from the comfort of your chairs, cots, or hammocks. Herb Tanimoto, Wakamatsu historian, author, and amateur astronomer will lead this unique sky tour.
… And stuff
I think a memo must have gone out in the captive animal kingdom on July 28 reading “tomorrow, we make a break for it!” In Danville Illinois, you might have seen one of the missing emus that escaped. In Kortenberg Belgium, the fugitives were wallabies. On Long Island, a lynx eluded capture for three days before finally being taken down. In Missouri a zebra is still on the loose - probably hiding at some newspaper stand. But the scariest one of all is the alligator that made himself at home at a daycare in Georgia. We need to figure out what dark website these guys are frequenting for their flash mob information and shut it down!
And, finally, the City of Folsom had about the prettiest picture of our city I’ve ever seen on their Facebook page. Here is is again, if you missed it.