Food in Phoenix
Sep. 8th, 2009 07:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebOur original plan was to eat at some famous pizza place for lunch on Saturday, some famous burger place for dinner, have leftover pizza or free hotel food for breakfast, go our separate ways for lunch, and then maybe a new-to-us fast food burger joint for dinner Sunday.
As I already said, the pizza place was closed for two weeks for summer break. The burger place has turned into another place which also wasn't opened. However, the fast food place still had at least one outlet and so we lunched at In-n-Out Burger.
That cheese looks much yummier than it really was. The best part of this burger was the fresh, crisp veggies on it. Unfortunately, I appreciate good cheese much better than I appreciate good veggies.
Then for dinner we had snacks from a new-to-us grocery store we'd both heard many good things about.
Our hotel had a microwave so we had some pretty good suppers. We also stocked up so we could bring things home. This required checking some luggage, but that all worked out. Here's what I ended up with.
(Those are dried blueberries, not frozen.) So far, all of that has been pretty good although the paneer tikka masala seemed a little sweet and the trail mix has too many dehydrated apples in it.
I have since found similar dark-chocolate-covered things at my local grocery store, but not dark chocolate covered dried cherries, which turn out to be quite tasty.
We've heard that Trader Joe's will never open a store in my town just because we're the home of Whole Foods. So sad.
The next day, Robin had Trader Joe's leftovers and I had hotel food. After hiking, packing, and checking out, I went over to my grandparents to visit with them and my aunt and uncle. My aunt and grandma made us a fabulous lunch of salad, spaghetti and meatballs, garlic bread, and pumpkin pie.
They didn't bring lunch to where Robin was as planned because the water was out. He had no car, so he couldn't get lunch, but then the owner of the driving school found him and drove him around, a much better treat than mere lunch.
Meanwhile, I had found a part of town called Historic something-or-other which I figured would have places to eat. I was right. I wasn't hungry for dinner, so we went to an Italian seafood place we found there.
And now I'm going to have some more dinner (pasta with the above pictured alfredo sauce).
As I already said, the pizza place was closed for two weeks for summer break. The burger place has turned into another place which also wasn't opened. However, the fast food place still had at least one outlet and so we lunched at In-n-Out Burger.
That cheese looks much yummier than it really was. The best part of this burger was the fresh, crisp veggies on it. Unfortunately, I appreciate good cheese much better than I appreciate good veggies.
Then for dinner we had snacks from a new-to-us grocery store we'd both heard many good things about.
Our hotel had a microwave so we had some pretty good suppers. We also stocked up so we could bring things home. This required checking some luggage, but that all worked out. Here's what I ended up with.
(Those are dried blueberries, not frozen.) So far, all of that has been pretty good although the paneer tikka masala seemed a little sweet and the trail mix has too many dehydrated apples in it.
I have since found similar dark-chocolate-covered things at my local grocery store, but not dark chocolate covered dried cherries, which turn out to be quite tasty.
We've heard that Trader Joe's will never open a store in my town just because we're the home of Whole Foods. So sad.
The next day, Robin had Trader Joe's leftovers and I had hotel food. After hiking, packing, and checking out, I went over to my grandparents to visit with them and my aunt and uncle. My aunt and grandma made us a fabulous lunch of salad, spaghetti and meatballs, garlic bread, and pumpkin pie.
They didn't bring lunch to where Robin was as planned because the water was out. He had no car, so he couldn't get lunch, but then the owner of the driving school found him and drove him around, a much better treat than mere lunch.
Meanwhile, I had found a part of town called Historic something-or-other which I figured would have places to eat. I was right. I wasn't hungry for dinner, so we went to an Italian seafood place we found there.
And now I'm going to have some more dinner (pasta with the above pictured alfredo sauce).
no subject
on 2009-09-09 03:16 pm (UTC)-sally