So sorry for the week long silence. You know that virus my daughter started with last Friday? We all got it, and for my wife and me it turned into the worst week of lethargy and coughing--yuk! I am now on day 11, and I think it's just about run its course; my wife is on about day 6. The doctor said it was not flu, and to just take lots of decongestant, push fluids and get rest. Robitussin is our friend! We dragged ourselves out for a movie and dinner this past Friday for my birthday, then collapsed for the weekend once we got home. It was just as well to stay in the rest of the weekend since we got a snow storm here in the Seattle area and it's nice to stay off the roads!
Last weekend, when I was on about day 3 of our mini plague, we had ordered Indian food from a local place here called Turmeric 'n More. It's not a restaurant that you can go to, but a food service that has a rotating weekly menu. You order by the end of Tuesday and they deliver the following Sunday. We love Indian food, and before we went vegan, we had two favorite restaurants in Colorado Springs that served awesome Indian and Nepalese dishes and had incredible lunch buffets with lots of vegetarian options. Since we went vegan again, I have greatly missed any kind of spread with such variety. Oh sure, I make the occasional vegan curry, but to have a large spread of vegan options would be a dream come true! Turmeric 'n More is the next best thing for us since they are the first Indian/Pakistani food service I have found that has a whole host of vegan options on their menu! They do not use ghee or cream in any of their dishes; they cook a much healthier fare and have many items that are specifically vegan, free of any dairy or other animal products.
We ordered Aloo Lobia Masala (potatoes and black eyed peas with onions, tomatoes and spices), Palak Mung ki Dal (split mung beans with spinach and spices), Diwani Handi (five assorted vegetables with onions, tomatoes and spices), and of course, some Naan bread. You can order basmati rice, but we were more interested in ordering the tasty dishes and so I whipped up some turmeric brown basmati rice in the pressure cooker and let them do the tough stuff. You can choose your spice level on each dish tailoring your meal or even individual dishes to your family, friends and guests. We sat down Sunday evening to a nice spread of wonderful Indian dishes that would help to fortify us for the upcoming week of viral rampage!
The food was excellent and it was nice to have a variety of spicy, vegan, Indian dishes with little effort on my part. We also found that the food was a good value and paid what you would expect to pay ordering in from a restaurant. (If each dish had come automatically with a side of rice, like with many Chinese restaurants, it would have been a great value!) All in all, we had a good experience with Turmeric 'n More and I highly recommend anyone in the Seattle area give them a try some time. Here is a hyperlink to their web site and menu: Turmeric 'n More. They are located in Kenmore, WA which is about ten minutes southwest of where we live in Bothell, but they deliver into Seattle and all along the northeast suburbs of King and Snohomish counties.
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