Airplane Food
Levi and I are taking a top-secret trip to visit some friends in Dominican Republic. He knows about it, she does not. I can’t wait to see the look on her face when she walks into her house and finds us in her living room. Priceless!
Right now in the midst of packing and catching up on things at home so that we can leave on such short notice, I stop to think about airplane food. It’s a 6 hour non-stop flight from Vancouver to Puerto Plata. I hope they have food on the plane. At the same time, I am hesitant about the food on the plane.
We are flying Air Transat. I’ve flown with them once before, on our trip to Puerto Vallarta for our honeymoon over 8 years ago. I got extremely ill on our way home, to the point of ending up in the emergency room in a Vancouver area hospital. The doctor blamed the airplane food.
So I guess it would be easy to understand why I am a bit nervous about consuming the airplane food this time around. I guess I could bring my own food. Levi probably won’t be able to eat his meal anyways considering it will almost certainly be loaded with gluten. He won’t be able to take his pills during the holiday or he will burn to a crisp.
I plan on reporting more about the food we eat in our journeys to Puerto Plata and back. I will be taking lots of pictures too…so brace yourselves for that.
Hot Dogs and Nostalgia
I miss summer so badly. What I miss about summer the most is the beach and camping. Then I think of camping food and I am reminded of home-made hamburgers and tasty smokies and hotdogs.
I don’t know if I’ve ever heard of anyone really craving hotdogs before. That is until this year. I have a friend who has had hotdogs twice in one month, during winter, and this is so unusual for her. She is pregnant so I chalked that up to pregnancy cravings.
Then at work they had a staff lunch a couple weeks back and the feature was, you guessed it, hotdogs. From what I hear that lunch was a huge success and when I was there last week I had people ranting and raving about the best staff lunch being hotdog day.
Hotdogs are not gourmet food. But for some reason we all love to eat them, especially when camping. Thinking about camping made me think of hotdogs. If I was to eat a hotdog right now, I am sure it would remind me of camping.
I love how food triggers memory and vice versa. I don’t have hotdogs in the fridge. I also don’t feel like going out and buying any. So, I will just pine away for summer time food and try to remember the good old days of camping last summer to get me by.
New Delhi Indian Restaurant – Vernon, BC
This is kind of a last-minute review because I didn’t really go out for dinner tonight with the plan to blog about it later. We were just out for dinner with Levi’s parents who are in town visiting.
New Delhi Indian Restaurant is located at 3315 30 Avenue in Downtown Vernon, BC. This is a fairly recent location change for this restaurant as they were located in a smaller space further downtown.
First I have to be fair and say that I’ve eaten at this restaurant in their old location. The food was great. I already knew this going in the second time.
When I heard on the radio quite a few months ago that they had reopened in a larger location I was eager to visit them again. The experience we had was disappointing as they were so busy with next to no wait staff that we never ever had our order taken – after about 1 hour of waiting and visiting. We chose to leave but I did say to myself I’d return after they are more established in their new location, have their waitstaff shortage fixed and not everyone is clamoring to eat there.
So, fast forward about 4 months and I was craving Indian food so when we made plans to go out for dinner with the in-laws I picked New Delhi. We walked in at around 5 or 5:30 and the place was empty. At first I was worried that maybe it wasn’t a good sign. It’s hard to find good ethnic restaurants in Vernon and I am always disappointed when we find one with great food that closes out less than a year later because there are not a lot of adventurous diners here. I don’t think that will be the case with New Delhi.
The owners are so incredibly friendly and polite. They joked with us and were very courteous.
Within a few minutes the restaurant started filling up with some larger parties and other groups and couples. I was really relieved because it was a sure sign that they would be around for quite a while.
Our food was amazing – as I expected it to be. Since I wasn’t planning to do a review tonight I didn’t bring my camera or video camera. I also don’t remember the full names of all the dishes we ordered so I don’t want to try to repeat and botch the names.
Also the wait time to receive our food was not too long at all, considering all the dishes are prepared when they are ordered. I think in total between our appetizers and the main courses it was about 20 minutes of waiting. Of course, we were visiting and the time passed quickly.
The prices may seem kind of high for the size of dishes you get but let me tell you, what looks like a small amount of food actually is quite filling. Add naan and rice to the mix and you are more than satisfied. For four adults who ate until well satiated, with soft drinks and coffee, our bill came to $77. This was for our pakora appetizer, 2 orders of rice pilao, 2 different chicken dishes (a tandoori dish and a madras curry dish), 2 vegetable dishes, naan bread, and a side of mixed pickle. This is A TON of food!
Since this is my first real restaurant review for this specific blog I haven’t quite determined a rating system that makes sense to me yet. Let me just say I highly recommend New Delhi Indian Restaurant in Vernon, BC and when I am ready to do a for-real restaurant review I will go back and eat again just to post even more details, pictures and maybe even video…and give it a proper rating.
If you like Indian food New Delhi is the best place to go in Vernon (if not one of the only ones!). Their food is on par with some of the authentic food I have had in the homes of my Indian friends.
New Delhi Indian Restaurant
3315 30 Avenue
Vernon, BC V1T 2C9
(250) 545-6558
Pizza
I like a lot of types of food. I enjoy a variety. I like so many different things I am pretty sure I don’t have a favorite. So, it’s probably easier to blog about food that I dislike first.
Dear Pizza, I do not like you. I like cheese, I like bread (such a treat!), I even don’t mind sauce. I do not like each of these things thrown together. Add meat and veggies into the mix and I want to gag.
I honestly am not sure exactly what about pizza makes me hate it so bad. I can’t quite put my finger on it. Maybe it’s mostly how I feel after I eat pizza. So overfull, bloated, and like I would sink if someone threw me into a pool. Unpleasant.
I’ve had good tasting pizza before. Interesting toppings, good crust, extra cheesy goodness. Still I walk away from any pizza experience vowing to never eat the stuff again.
That’s kind of the boat I am in right now after this weekend. We were away and ordered pizza to be delivered to our hotel room because I was too tired to go out for dinner. I know I should have paid more attention to the name of the pizza place and whatever to do a review here but like I said I was tired. It took over an hour (they said 35 minutes on the phone) to arrive. The pizza was okay. They made it spicy for us on request which was nice. Overall ok. But if I never see pizza again I will be ever so grateful. It was just overkill.
Sorry pizza. I officially want nothing to do with you. Don’t be too sad, I am sure there are millions of North Americans who love you anyways.
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