Sunday, 7 November 2010

1530 Food deliveries galore

I have one photo album showing the 101 restaurants, takeaways pubs and nightclubs within a mile of my home, and almost every week an advertising leaflet is pushed through my door such is the nature of the competition for business. I pile these up with the telephone directory and periodically, as now I go through them before sending duplicates for recycling. I am unlikely to phone an order but you never know. What amazes is that despite have half a dozen takeaway in Ocean Road I am circulated by those from further afield. I like Fredericke and hope it will be resurrected keeping the second hand curio shops. It is outside the mile walking limit.

The Sylhet is a Fredericke Takeaway and offers an Onion Bhagji, Chicken Tuk Tuk, Chicken Curry Breast, Chips, Pilau rice, naan bread onion salad and 2 pappadoms for £9, or a 5 course Mega meal for collection only and a Taxi special at £2.90, presumably to eat in the taxi on the rest of the way home 01914546555 Maaneks caters is also in Frederick Street 01914279477 and offers 7 course meal for £9.50 or a four person mixture for £30.90. Meza's Spice at Fredericke Street delivers one classic dish with rice or chips plus 2 pappadoms for £6.50 but lots of exclusions or extras 01914544966. The New Delhi Frederick Street 01914547575 offers a meal for two for £6.50 with an onion Bhagji, Chicken Curry, Mushroom Pilau, bag of chips and one naan, all of sufficient size to be divided.

The Log Fire Pizza 1091 423 1960 was opened on the corner of a road on my way to visit my mother 01914231960 and offers a good range of 10 inch pizzas £4.45, 4.95 and 5.45 for the seafood's with the 12 inch from £5 to £6.50. They also do burgers £2-£3 and Chips £1.10 Also offering Pizzas is Planet Pizza 01914555057 also along Bolden Lane but also fish and chips £3.10 Mexican Burritos at £6 and Tortilla Wraps £2.50-£3 and Kebabs £3.90 to £6.50 for the house special with 2 Pitas. Before getting to Bolden Lane I would pass Pizza Corner 01914554557 who also do Chicken and chips £2.20 or with a parmesan and sauce, chips and salad for £5.

For something different the Orangegrass 01914558555 is a Thai restaurant which will deliver or gives a 10% discount for collect. You can have a banquet style mixture for two people £16.95 each offering Tord Mun Pla, Gai Satayu, Guing Hom. Pha PoPie, Tord, Gal Geaw, and Sam Tam starters and Stir fried Chicken with cashew Nuts, Red Curry with roasted duck and stir fry seasons green vegetables with steamed fried rice or Egg Fried rice, If there are four of you the selection is greater with 14 dishes but the cost is £24.95 each. The Triple Diner in Nevison Avenue 01914200266 offers an eight course curry special for £9.95 every day except Friday and Saturdays- starter course, Curry dish, any rice dish, a Bhaji, Chips, onion salad, 2 Pappadoms a Naan. There is a different coloured page for Indian, Pizza or Fish Chips and Kebab meals. The Herb and Spice Kitchen 019142751188 has a happy nights special four course for £6.75 or a set four person but a total of £37.50. Papa Johns 01914279201 was offering Easter Specials with a 30% extra size for £1 more and a pack of Cadbury Crème eggs for £16 or more ordered via the internet

www.papajohns.co.uk or a double Italian sausage Extra Large for £10.99. Donatellos offers the local Tony Minchella Ice creams with one litre tubs for £2.60 and The Beast 254 square inches of crust 18 inch Pizza for £11.95 0191 454 4322. In addition to Pizzas the Tastybite 0191427 5300 has a grill bar of Burgers and Kebabs and a £2.50 Kids meal of quarter burger or chicken nuggets or pizza pico with chips or wedges, pop and a free toy. The Taste of India 0191 4550013 works from a small business estate with a special offer 7 course meal for £7.50 which provides adequately for two unless one wanted to pig out. Finally the Marine 01914568282 is the only offer from a distance of Chinese food and with a mere 216 dishes, but at the bottom of my hill there is China Cook

We now come to those at the bottom of my street, so to speak. China Cook 0191 455 2255 is the only one from the land of the new world rulers and has a monster menu with 272 dishes. There are 18 King Prawn dishes for example 20 Fried Crispy Noodles dishes and even Sirloin Steak Mushrooms Onions and gravy for £6.05. There are two set menus for 2-4 £12-£30. Abrakebbra 01914967806 has a 16 inch garlic bread with Cheese and mushroom for £7 and Scampi and Chips for £4. Yankees 0191 455 7575 gives a can of lager for every Pizza on week days and Bam Bam Pizza mixed green peppers and onion, Mexican chicken and jalapenos, and Tex Mex Fajitas. I like the sound of their jumbo platter £9.95 with Chicken strips, Chicken nuggets, Cream Cheese Jalapenos, Mozzarella Sticks, Onion Rings, (17 pieces) plus potato wedges or twisters, Salad and three dips. Spend over £20 and they provide a free bottle of wine. They also do an eat all you can Pizza Pasta Salad for £4.99 Aloy Aloy is by the Pier Pavilion at the beach end of Ocean Road and provides Thai food. 01914564134 They have photos and good prices and worth an outing sometime. The Empress of India has a large internal space and has a special menu offer of £ 5.95 every night dining in from 5.30 till 11 which includes a starter, main course, desert and glass of wine or soft drink. The Spice Garden 01914559867 offers a 20% discount for take away or their a la carte menu. I make that 21 options of provider and several hundred menu choices.

I break off at half time in the radio commentary of Sunderland at Fulham which is 0.0 time and where they won 3.1 last season. Earlier I missed the Boro thrashed by Chelsea 5.0.

Yesterday I did a wide ranging shop at Morrison's Sunderland after calling in at the coast fish mongers for Sea bass the most expensive fish available and bought all that was on offer eight pieces for £23.00 around £3 a piece but about half the size pieces from that offered at the door a month back so that a ten pack offer for £5 might not be such a bad bargain if I divide the packs into two. I must also visit the fish market in Sunderland to see their prices. At Morrison's I could not resist half price picture books of the 40's 50's and 60's which I shall review another day. I also acquired to new tea mugs of the right size, coloured deep royal blue and with a couple of stylish white markings on one side. There were priced £1.99 but a two for one offer. I stocked up with meats, four pork chops, two pieces of steak and two packs of two chops. There was also some filled pasta shells also a two for one and a two for £2.50 which will divided provide 8 portions. There was a packed jar of anchovies, some white crabmeat chunks. There were two packs of Southern Fried chicken pieces which have been made into five meal portions. I have been out of apple sauces for months leaving the pork dishes bereft, I favoured plums, pears and grapes for fruit growing tired of bananas for a while. The supermarket has maintained an excellent meat deli and I selected two slices of Wiltshire ham. 100 grams of Napoli salami thinly slices cost only £1.09 rather than £1.30-£1.40 in pre-packed, oddly and they also had a Spanish on offer which I was able try beforehand and with a small cube goats cheese and these to mini bites formed my tea. I bought a small carton of dried figs and of dates. I nearly forgot I also got a couple of two portion packs of Italian pancetta ideal for stir fry’s if I am going have individual pieces of meat or chicken rather than a whole chicken of joints. The treat apart from my set of books was a two for one smoked salmon offer. 100 grams portions which I will divide into three and eat with a twist of lemon on a slice of toast as a meal starter. The stir fry meat reminds that I found a pack of runner beans reduced for 39 pence. There was a treat for the day a pack of shell on prawns which will be evening starter and a treat for Christmas was a 400 gram box of Florentines.

Sunderland should have won their game and had a goal disallowed because a player moved into the wall after being warned not to do so by the referee. Shots hit posts and ricocheted between pots but none went in. It was a good point but should have been three. Arsenal and Liverpool came back from losing the first goal and Manchester United were awesome with Berbatov, Rooney, Giggs and Ronaldo being an awesome foursome.

I watched one film for the umpteenth time Rio Grande with John Wayne in which is heads a fort plagued by Indians who raid then cross back into Mexico. 15 years previous in the civil war he was ordered to destroy the crops on his farm rather than let them fall into the hands of the other side in the civil war he and his wife separated and since then he has not seen her or his son who during the film he learns has failed the maths examination at West Point he enlists the next day and is one of the additional troops brought in because of the frontier problems. Unable to favouritism the boy is taken under the wing of his Sergeant played by Victor McLaglen. When his mother comes out to collect her son having arranged for a buy out, the affection between the couple become love again after various tests and adventures in which his some becomes a hero and father is injured. The film is loosely based on an historical event when a regiment did cross the border national military orders. This is one of three films by John Ford with John Wayne, Fort Apace being the second and the best known of all She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. It good Saturday morning cinema stuff shown early evening so missed this weeks episode of Merlin which I watch on the BBC I player, I also only saw some of Strictly Come Dancing before switching over to the X factor where no performances or performers made me say WOW. The evening ended with disappointing MOBO awards programme.

I had commenced some work but progress was slow because of the time spent trying to solve computer problems because of soft ware and hardware problems in relation use of disks and memory stick as well as printer which I must attend to soon.

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