Category Archives: Forking Thoughts

Random Forking Items of Interest

Take out Food in Metro Phoenix AZ – Week 36 of the Coronavirus Pandemic – Twisted Italian, Rocket burger

Leave a reply

Take out food is a safer option than dining in during the coronavirus pandemic. We will not be dining in during the pandemic but we do consider dining out on uncrowded out door patios at off times.

The Twisted Italian is located in North Peoria in the #UpperWestSide. This restaurant is located in a large newer shopping center. They do have two outside tables but most seating is indoors. They serve most of your usual American Italian foods but also offer a few things that are “Twisted” like three kinds of pierogi on the menu and also an Italian Relleno that comes with fried raviolis.

Tonight we took out the the Friday Dinner Walleye Special and the Pepperonata with extra sausage.

OMG they gave me a whole buffet pan of food. Look how ENORMOUS that pan is with the walleye. The vegetables (a mix of green beans, asparagus, and zucchini) are tender crisp, very fresh and very good. The fish is mild and meaty. It’s lightly breaded and covered with a tangy lightly creamy citrus sauce. It’s slightly more tangy or sour than the sauce usually is. This same sauce is on the angel hair pasta. It’s too tangy or sour for me. I can’t eat it because it is painful to me…..(but I am more sensitive than most people.) I do note that I had this special before and it was delicious last time. This special is very popular. According to the website all this food is only $17.50. They must have made an error on my receipt because they only charged me $14.75 so I don’t know if I should bother them and let them know they made an off batch of sauce?

My husband did alright with the Pepperonata with extra sausage. He said that the sausage in his meal was very good and had extra to save to snack on. I shared some of the fish with my dogs and they got a taste of the sausage.

www.EatTwisted.com

Our other take out of the week was from Rocket Burger in North Phoenix. They serve burgers and other sandwiches, sides, soft serve and a few 100 kinds of bottled sodas. Recently The New Times wrote an article that Rocket Burger serves one of the top ten chicken sandwiches in metro Phoenix. I’ve been here a bunch of times but never tried a chicken sandwich here so today was the day.

The chicken sandwich is the one in the middle of the picture. The one I got is made with a large soft eggy bun, thin sliced pickles, a tomato slice, horseradish mayo, sliced jalapeños, really REALLY HOT Rocket Relish, two ultra thin battered chicken fingers and this sandwich is only $8.49. The person from The New Times said her chicken sandwich had an incredible crunch to it. Mine just taste battered and isn’t crunchy……(maybe it got soft due to take out and not dining in????) But WOW that horseradish mayo is really great and that rocket relish has a great flavor to it. This sandwich is boarder-line too spicy for me but I like the flavors of the sauce and relish. The chicken is ok. It’s a very good sandwich for only $8.49. I sure have paid more for sandwiches that weren’t this good.

We shared some fries and my husband had a double cheeseburger today. It usually is great but today was a little dry.

My dogs sure didn’t mind trying some cheeseburger and some chicken from Rocket Burger.

“Don’t worry we are in this thing together and are here to help you eat all this delicious food”

www.TheRocketBurger.com

That was week 36 of take out during the coronavirus pandemic in metro Phoenix AZ.

Everything is subject to change and we hope it DOES CHANGE for the better.

The Forking Truth

Oh NO My Bread Didn’t Rise – Rye BAGELS Recipe – ****With UPDATE*****

Leave a reply

My rye bread dough didn’t rise. I never had dough that didn’t rise before. Some rise more than others but this didn’t rise at all. I even put my bowl of dough in a warm oven and it still didn’t rise. I thought maybe if I boiled the dough something good might happen and it did!

I knew my dough was for 8 portions so I cut the dough into 8 pieces. I rolled each one into a log. Then I dipped the ends in water to make them stick together. I boiled them in medium boiling water for 7 minutes turning them halfway though.

Placed them on baking sheets sprayed with non stick spray.

Sprinkled them with caraway seeds and French salt flakes.

Put them in a 425 F degree preheated oven for 15-20 minutes. Some 15. Some up to 20.

They accidentally came out better than any bagel in Phoenix and were more like an east coast bagel than any bagel here….warm, moist, a little dense, delicious and chewy!

By accident they came out Forking AMAZING!

As for my update********the next day I made the recipe again. This time I used my regular yeast ( one packet of Fleischman’s Active Dry Yeast) The dough was completely different. I also needed to use one less cup of flour too. The Sour dough yeast made the dough much stickier.

Oh NO my bread didn’t rise – Rye BAGELS

Ingredients for 8 servings

3 cups + 2 Tablespoons bread flour (possibly some more flour for kneading and more for sitting inn a bowl)

1 cup + 2 Tablespoons dark rye flour

2 Tablespoons dark brown sugar

1 Tablespoon (heaping slightly) kosher salt

1 – .63 packet sour dough yeast (maybe the secret to this recipe…usually I use regular yeast) (purchased it from WinCo)

2 Tablespoons caraway seeds + plus extra for topping bagels

1 1/2 cups water

1/4 cup canola oil

French sea salt flakes for topping (finishing) bagels

non stick spray to spay on to baking sheets

Instructions.

Flours, sugar, salt, yeast, caraway seeds, water and oil all go in your mixer bowl in your stand mixer. Mix lightly with a spoon so when you mix the flour doesn’t explode all over the place. Connect your hook attachment and bring the mixing up to medium high. Let it go around ten minutes. It’s done when the dough pulls away from the bowl and turns into a big dough ball. (If it didn’t then you might need to add a small amount of bread flour) Take the dough ball out and knead it into a ball.

The dough ball sits in a bowl with some flour and some flour on top of it. Cover with plastic wrap.

Mine didn’t rise………If yours rises it will make nice bread or rolls. I Don’t know if it will make the nice bagels mine did.

After 90 minutes of mine not rising I put a pot of water on a medium boil. Rolled out 8 sections of dough into logs and dipped the ends one at a time in water so the dough would glue it’s self together in a circle shape.

Using a mesh spoon I put three at a time bagels in my pot of boiling water for 7 minutes turning them halfway threw. Took them out with slotted spoon on to a non stick sprayed sheet pan and topped the bagels with caraway seeds and French flake sea salt.

They went in my pre-heated 425 F degree oven for 15 – 20 minutes. I took them out when they seemed cooked all the way threw.

This is the yeast I used.

Honestly the bagels came out with an incredible amazing flavor. Usually I bloom the yeast in water when I make a yeast dough but this time I didn’t because sometimes you don’t when you make bread. It came out FORKING GREAT anyway.

Oh NO my bread didn’t rise – Rye BAGELS

If you find yourself in the same situation maybe you can make your dough that doesn’t rise into bagels too.

The Forking Truth

A little taste of Lure Fish House in Scottsdale AZ – Week 34 Take Out Food

Leave a reply

Take out and delivery are less risky dining options during the pandemic. We do consider patio dining during off times.

For our first visit we decided to do take out from the newly opened Lure Fish House in Scottsdale. They are a family owned restaurant with four California locations and this brand new one in Gainey Village. They offer a seasonal menu of all kinds of fresh flown in seafood at reasonable prices.

It looks like they have at least a dozen outside umbrella topped tables.

Inside looks cozy with an oyster bar.

Looks like they have a lot of booth seating and many are closed for social distancing.

I tried the Sally’s Sand Dabs.

Oh WOW! This is really GREAT! I got a very good portion of DELICIOUS fresh sand dabs. They are so tender and fresh tasting in a perfect lightly buttered herb crust. The caper sauce is just right and accents everything in a delicious way. The sides I went with were a light and not too sweet pineapple slaw and a cilantro laced corn salad. The kernels were sweet with a nice fresh texture.

My husband really ENJOYED the Tequila Lime Shrimp Pasta.

This is also really great but is a very VERY spicy creamy tomato tequila lime sauce with spinach and Gulf shrimp, garlic toast and pasta. I tried a taste of the sauce. It has great flavors to it but is MIGHTY HOT that builds. We hope that the restaurant doesn’t neutralize this dish to please the masses because this dish will be too hot for about half the people out there. BUT WE LOVE IT THIS WAY!

We also tried a little bit of the rolls. They are very good with a developed taste. They will not go to waste here.

They offer a nice variety of desserts and today we went with the key lime pie.

It seems light and is flavored nicely. The graham crust is tasty. You can’t go wrong with this one.

My dogs got to enjoy some sand dabs.

“Lure Fish House was really great!”

www.LureFishHouse.com

That was a little taste of Lure Fish House in Scottsdale AZ

Everything is subject to change and your experience may differ.

The Forking Truth

Universal Yum Box – Russia – My Forking Thoughts

Leave a reply

I’ve subscribed to www.UniversalYums.com . It’s a subscription service that sends you an international box of snacks once a month. They offer three different size boxes.

Small (called a Yum Box)- 6 snacks, a 12 page activity booklet with a recipe) around $15.00

Medium (called a Yum Yum Box) 12 snacks, activity book & more around $25.00

Large ( called Super Yum Box) 20 snacks, activity book & more around $40.00

So far I’m just doing the basic 6 snack Yum Box.

I open the box and wonder what I’ll get?

I look at the first few pages of the activity booklet first.

I read a little about Russia. I see a recipe for beef stroganoff. Turn the page and I see some fun facts.

The box also comes with a scorecard so I can jot down my thoughts.

I should have read the next page before we started the tastings because they recommended to do the tastings in a certain order. I accidentally tasted the best one first. I picked it because it was a smaller treat and I wanted to start with something small.

We start by sharing one of the snacks.

I’m not sure what it is called but it is a wafer bar with cocoa, hazelnuts and peanuts.

WOW! It’s all melty like REAL chocolate.

Gosh this is delicious. I never tasted a wafer bar with such a delicious coating. No wax here! This is really good. It’s not even like a candy bar. It’s more like the chocolate ganache coating from a pastry shop. American candy bars are very inferior compared to this…….Even the wafers and fillings are good. WOW! I sure wouldn’t mind more of these.

Here is the next one we tried.

I have no idea what the package says but this is a pack of two white chocolate and hazelnut filled wafer bars.

The wafer bars are crisp and the filling is unusually good. More like something from a bakery and not from a shelf. No waxy feeling at all. No chemical taste. It’s rich with the right amount of buttery sweetness. I just wish the hazelnut flavor popped a little more but this is still really good.

We only wanted a little bit of sweet so we opened the Yum Bag.

I wonder what is inside?

Looks like fruity gummies and something more interesting with coconut and hazelnuts. I go for the more interesting.

It’s like a wafer bon bon. It’s a white chocolate coating mixed with shredded coconut that coats a wafer shell filled with extra sweet frosting that has a hazelnut center. This one its slightly waxy and slightly too sweet. Not my favorite.

Here’s the next one.

I was suppose to try this one first. It’s some sort of coated milk cake.

This one lacks sweetness and also lacks a good flavor. It is flavored with something I can’t identify. This its my least favorite so far.

Ok next was mushroom croutons.

They smell sort of odd. They are light, airy and crisp in texture. They taste better than they smell. some of them actually taste like mushroom base. (base the stuff you add to soup if you didn’t make a stock) some of them have more flavor and salt than others in my package. For me some of them run a little salt forward but they really do taste like mushroom. Not bad!

Next.

These are suppose to be Swiss cheese flavored potato chips.

They smell sort of buttery. They have a powdery exterior and are very thin but in my package the chips are not very crisp. At first I can almost imagine a Swiss cheese flavor but that quickly turns to an artificial margarine type flavor. I really don’t like these chips.

These were the gummies from the yum bag. They might be good but I don’t like gummy candy so I made my husband try them. He thought one did taste like lemon or something citrusy but he couldn’t identify the other one.

The last one.

It looks good……..????

I go to taste….The chocolate is extra milky and the filling is more like jelly than the creamy look it has on the wrapper.

You know I can sure go for another one of these………..The was the wafer with cocoa, hazelnuts and peanuts.

Those were my Forking Thoughts on Universal Yums from Russia.

I can’t wait to try what I get next month!

www.UniversalYums.com

Everything is subject to change and your experience and opinion may indeed differ.

The Forking Truth

Take Out Food In Metro Phoenix AZ During The CoronaVirus Pandemic Week 33 – Alzohour Market, Fabio On Fire

Leave a reply

Experts say that take out food and delivery are less risky options during the pandemic. So take out is a logical choice but we also do consider out door patio dining.

Our first take out of the week was from Alzohour Market in Glendale. They are offer Moroccan, Middle Eastern Foods, baked goods, a small amount of grocery and Islamic Clothing. The food is always delicious and if you can you must try the hot tea. Today we took out the cod tangine and a chicken dish. We asked for chicken couscous but we got rice instead. She gave us LOTS of rice…way more than a person can eat. It was still delicious.

The entrees came with fresh salads. The Cod tangine is always delicious. It’s made with red peppers, tomatoes, onions and lemons in a warm seasoned tomato based sauce. The cod is nice and light but is a generous portion. The chicken is also delicious, lots of olives, very tender and falling off the bones. Today it came with potatoes that soaked up all the delicious Mediterranean and chicken flavors. These meals came with an ultra generous portions of colorful fluffy rice. the dogs sure enjoyed sharing some of the fish and chicken.

We also did take out from Fabio On Fire in North Peoria #UpperWestSide. This is an Italian Restaurant that offers Italian Foods such as Neapolitan Pizzas, Pastas, Great baked goods, Specials that may include fresh seafood and the BEST GELATO maybe in the world.

We went with two of the specials halibut Mediterranean, polenta with Italian sausage and peppers and that amazing strawberry gelato. I didn’t try the sausage and polenta but I can tell you that the halibut was delicious and prepared to perfection. The vegetables were also nice and fresh and included rainbow carrots. Fabios bread is also excellent. It was nice to enjoy a piece with dinner. The next day we enjoyed more of the amazing bread with breakfast. We also had a small taste of that amazing strawberry gelato. I’m lucky to have the rest in my freezer. My dogs got to also enjoy some sausage and halibut.

That was Week 33 of Take Out during the coronavirus pandemic in Metro Phoenix AZ.

Alzohour Market – Glendale

Fabio On Fire – Peoria #UpperWestSide

Everything is subject to change and we hope things do change for the better.

The Forking Truth

A Collection of HORRIBLE Frightful Foods Served To Me In Metro Phoenix AZ – The Halloween Special Edition Of The Forking Truth

Leave a reply

The Forking Truth is that not everything is amazing. Restaurants don’t always serve great food. Here is a collection of some of the obvious bad dishes I had served to me in metro Phoenix Arizona. I already reported these offenders once so I did my job. Once is enough. If you regularly read my blog then you will know where these monstrosities came from.

The above photo is a little fishy.

Here’s a close up.

This is suppose to be polenta. But it is oddly stiff……

I don’t know if it’s happy to see me or if the chef was just pissed off…???

This next one looks like a cinnamon or chocolate pastry…..But it is not.

It’s a burnt roll.

Also got a burnt pizza crust somewhere. Maybe the cook was sauced?

Don’t you hate when foreign objects are in your food?

Dessert isn’t always a sweet ending.

They gave us a dessert that is hard as a rock. We said something to (I think the owner) and he said that nothing was wrong with his dessert. He said they soften up when you heat them up…..WTFork was I suppose to do? Heat it up with my butt!

This next one was even more horrible than it looks.

The fish was fishy tasting (I couldn’t eat it) and was topped with raw sour tomato paste (like fresh from a can mixed with lemon juice and was just plopped on the fishy fish. It was surrounded by starchy tasting corn splats of different disgusting textures. I didn’t know at the time but latter found out that the chef left. I guess they let their dishwasher take a swing at cooking. I told my waiter about it but nothing was done…Then they went out of business.

Bad food can come from a food truck.

This was suppose to be some sort of corned beef stuffed roll. You can see it is greasy but THANK GOD you can’t taste it ….It tasted like it was cooked in rancid oil…..

This next one was a restaurant week dinner.

This dinner looks like it threw up on it’s self.

This sandwich was very unappetizing in appearance.

It looks like it was dragged threw a lake. (or maybe a mop bucket?)

Even pizza can bum you out. it’s so disappointing when you get a slice of pizza with zero topping.

BAH!

Had the worst taco in the whole world.

Even the tortilla was decomposing on it’s way to me. It was stuffed with DRY as can be flavorless chicken.

I also had the misfortune to try out the WORST Mediterranean food that I ever had anywhere.

Well the rice and tomato was good. But everything else was horrible but photographed well. Falafels had uncooked hard as rock chickpeas in them. The chicken shawarma tasted like chicken baloney. The pickle they gave me was old and decaying. I think it also came with a Sr. Citizen card.

I went to a new (at the time) BBQ place. The meats they served us were undercooked with hard fat. THE GRITS YOU CAN SEE WERE UNCOOKED that they served us.

We told someone about the grits. Nobody said that they were sorry. Nobody said that they’d take them off our bill. Nobody said that they’d get us something else.

It’s always horrible when they serve you…….”The I already ate plate” (no that wasn’t an appetizer…It was suppose to be my $16.00 Lunch.

Here’s another “I already ate plate”

This isn’t enough food for a gerbil. BAH!

Sometimes some restaurants are just bad.

I got this salad somewhere. They used processed chicken fingers that weren’t cooked correctly. It seemed they they cooked them in the microwave until they BLEW OUT the centers of the chicken and the outside of the chicken got incredibly hard. Then they chilled them and added them to my salad.

My husband got something similar but different here.

He said that his chicken fingers were a little better but the cheese with a combination of hard and melted at the same time.

This next one is also just bad.

I got questionable trout, from frozen boiled vegetables and GREEN mashed potatoes. I did ask my waitress why the mashed potatoes were green. She ran and asked the chef. She said the chef told her that mashed potatoes turn green when you add black pepper.

I think the worst meal I had came from a Chinese Restaurant that I enjoyed before. I ordered the fresh fish because it was very good last time.

I have no idea what the FORK they served us. This fish was like it was made of rubber. I think it was dead and embalmed. It was next to impossible to pull the meat off of it. WOW! was my husband mad at me for recommending this place. He was so mad that when the owner asked us how things were he said ok just so the guy would leave. Then when we got the bill he was really SORRY that he didn’t say anything because they charged us over $80.00 for this fish we couldn’t eat.

All this crap was NOT Worth a Fork!

That was a collection of not all but some of horrible frightful foods served to me in metro Phoenix AZ.

This was the Halloween Edition of The Forking Truth.

The Forking Truth

Take out FOOD in Metro Phoenix AZ During the CoronaVirus Pandemic Week 32 – La Piazza Al Forno, Peoria Artisan Brewery, Taylor’s Chowder House

Leave a reply

We hear on the news that delivery and take out have a lower risk of covid spread than dining in. So we have have been doing take out. We do plan to do some patio dining at off times.

Our first take out of the week was from La Piazza Al Forno in Old Town Glendale. They are a little different from most of the other pizza places. They offer certified Neapolitan pizzas and the mozzarella taste different because it’s made in house.

On the left is their Funghi Pizza. In the middle is the house salad and on the left is the Margherita. I’ve had the Margherita here a million times so I knew what to expect but I never had the Funghi (don’t call it mushroom here or else….you’ll be sorry…I did and I was….) It’s different than any other mushroom pizza I’ve tried anywhere. The cheeses are different because it’s their house made mozzarella, parmesan with fontina for a different taste but it’s the rosemary that is a really great touch. I think the rosemary is such a nice accent to mushroom or Funghi pizzas.

Our next take out was from Peoria Artisan Brewery in Peoria.

I got the strawberry salad with added salmon. My salad was mostly arugula and it was adorned with a little high quality blue cheese and some candied pecans. We shared some pickled fried vegetables that were interesting and my husband had the Italian beef sandwich with beef au jus. My dogs enjoyed some of the salmon and beef.

Last take out of the week was from Taylor’s Chowder House in Phoenix. They are a budget seafood restaurant where the portions are usually large and the prices are low.

We decided to try the house battered mozzarella sticks because they are only $6.95. WOW! Each piece is as big as a banana. They must have given us extra by accident. I tried the Idaho Brook Trout with almonds today. They gave me TWO fish filets topped with toasted almonds and bread crumbs. I picked the house vegetable that was zucchini marinara and a plain baked potato. My meal was only $14.95 and is two meals for me. My husband got the Two Plus Two (2 fried shrimp and 2 battered filets (cod)). It’s a lot of food….Even my husband couldn’t finish everything. There is also a roll we couldn’t get to yet. Taylor’s Chowder House is GREAT VALUE Seafood…When you consider the price and portion it is only fast food priced and is much better than fast food. My dogs enjoyed a little mozzarella stick and some fish.

That was week 32 of take out in metro Phoenix AZ during the coronavirus pandemic.

La Piazza Al Forno – Old Town Glendale

Peoria Artisan Brewery – Peoria

Taylor’s Chowder House – Phoenix

Every THING is subject to change and we hope everything does change for the better.

The Forking Truth

Just a Little Taste of The Craftsman Cocktails and Kitchen in North Scottsdale AZ

Leave a reply

Here is just a little taste of the newly opened The Craftsman Cocktails and Kitchen in North Scottsdale. By the time you go there a permanent new sign might be on the building. They offer lots of patio dining that wraps around the building. There are also windows on garage type doors that open up to extend the patio.

The inside is bright, airy, rich and modern.

To the left of the entrance is an in-house distillery and also another dining area.

To the right is the main area of the restaurant.

The menu offers many interesting sounding things to try. The menu is mostly American. The chef is from the fine dining Italian restaurant that used to be located in North Scottsdale called Sassi.

For our first visit we did some take out.

We started out by sharing (top left) a small order of lollipop wings over blue cheese slaw. They were manicured very nicely and were tasty and tender. They were not too tangy or too hot so most people would like them. The slaw seemed fresh made and liked getting the big chunks of blue cheese every now and then.

For my main I tried the wagyu pastrami on pretzel bun with a side salad.

The pastrami is flavored very nicely. The pretzel bun is also very good and is toasted to perfection. I got some crunchy fresh slaw on the side. But the roll It’s just too large for my taste so I eat the sandwich on just the smaller bottom part of the bun and I still have a good amount of bread. They forgot to give me the caraway mustard that it is suppose to come with so I don’t know how that would be. I do have to say that the side salad was very above average for a side salad. All the vegetables tasted unusually fresh and flavorful. Even the carrots didn’t taste like supermarket carrots and I like the flavorful house dressing too.

My husband tried the hammer and anvil porchetta sandwich on ciabatta with house potato chips.

He got a sandwich packed with pork shoulder, Craftsman sausage, rapini, cheddar, and for him herb aioli on the side. Perhaps from the car ride home the porchetta got sort of dry……But need to mention that the sausage, rapini, herb aioli and cheese were exceptionally good. The potato chips were also very good. Nice and thin and seemed free of oil.

That was just a little taste of The Craftsman Cocktails and Kitchen in North Scottsdale.

www.TheCraftsmanAZ.com

Everything is subject to change and your experience may or may not differ.

The Forking Truth

WARNING Food Related “Fluff” Story Today Dogs Catching Treats

Leave a reply

I’m spending more time at home these days. I find that I am entertaining my dogs more too. My dogs enjoy catching treats and it is challenging to toss a treat and snap a picture with my phone. Well Thursdays are my freestyle day and this IS FOOD RELATED so…WTFork here we go…. Here’s a small collection of the photos I took of My Dogs Catching Treats….P.S. I warned you that this was a FLUFF story.

That’s my Food Related “FLUFF” Story Today …Dogs Catching Treats

The Forking Truth

A Little Taste of Jalapeño Inferno (N. Peoria) Just Biryani (N. Phoenix) in North Phoenix AZ

Leave a reply

Two weeks in a row I got to visit two brand new restaurants in North Phoenix. Last week I got to try out Jalapeño Inferno in Peoria at Park West. It is a Sonoran Style Mexican restaurant with a few outside patios and a beautiful bright modern decor and lots of outside patio seating on multiple patios.

This time I did take out.

We started out with chips and salsas.

Their red salsa is extra mild and is only mildly seasoned. The jalapeño inferno sauce (green $3.00 extra) is so hot that you can’t eat it. It does have good flavors to it but as someone who likes hot food I can only use a drop of it on my food.

For my main I went with the naked poblano.

I thought the poblano would be stuffed but it is on the side of cubed chicken breast, corn and black beans in a creamy corn sauce that was sprinkled with pomegranate. It’s tasty and doesn’t seem too heavy. A little fresh cilantro and scallions would go a long way here….but it’s still good.

My husband went with a combo plate.

He got a tamale, a burrito and a chili relleno with rice and beans. He was happy with it and said that everything was tasty.

That was what we tried from Jalapeño Inferno in Peoria at Park West.

www.JalapenoInferno.com

This week I got to try Just Biryani in North Phoenix. It’s an Indian Restaurant with over 20 different Biryani dishes on the menu. It’s also a cheerful and clean looking restaurant.

Today we did take out.

We started out by sharing the samosa chaat.

It’s chana masala (seasoned chickpeas) with sauces and wet bread (might be the samosas but it seems like bread in here). It’s full of exotic flavors herbs, onions, fried vermicelli and some mild heat. I think the sauces on the side might be chutney and raita but are unlike any I had before. These are both have a water-like consistency and are ultra delicate with flavor.

We then shared the gongura chicken biryani.

It’s mainly fluffy rice with a little raw onion, half an egg and some seasoned very tender boneless chicken with some exotic flavors and slight heat.

We also shared the ulavacharu chicken biryani.

This one is also mostly fluffy rice, raw onion and half an egg with a small amount of chicken on the bone. This dish has very little flavor. I never had an Indian dish like this before.

www.DosaGrillAZ.com (this restaurant was previously a Dosa Grill)

Those were my experiences at Jalapeño Inferno at Park West in Peoria and Just Biryani in North Phoenix two of the new restaurants in North Phoenix AZ.

Everything is subject to change and we hope things do change for the better.

The Forking Truth