Food on the Road - Tour Day 5 Philly to Baltimore

As previously mentioned, my fiddle player's parents went shopping yesterday specifically with us in mind. This morning we received the "fruits" of that with a huge breakfast: scrambled eggs, regular and turkey bacon, fruit salad including clementine, grapefruit and pineapple chunks, hash brown potatoes (the stand out of the meal, well spiced although a little mushy for my preference), waffles, whole wheat toast, juice, and coffee.

After an easy two hour drive down to Baltimore (along the way i had some sour cream and onion potato crisps and some beef jerky, procured from a 7-11 south of Philly), we arrived at our friend Mick’s house to spend the night on our way down to Asheville, NC. When we arrived our host directed us to a little Indian grocery store just a block away, informing us that they had meals ready-to-eat for like $2 a pop, so we headed over just before closing time and I stocked up on 6 of the meal bags, plus a sack of ten loaves of spicy onion na’an. Once back at the house, we set a big pot of water boiling, popped in a couple of bags to heat them, and now I am enjoying a deep bowl of Kadhi Pakora. According to www.honestcooking.com (reference link http://honestcooking.com/2011/09/12/kadhi-pakora/), “Kadhi is a spiced soup that you make by thinning out yogurt with water and cooking it with chickpea flour.” This particular Kadhi also has chickpea dumplings and chili peppers. The na’an and a Natty Bo (local cheap beer - actually called National Bohemian) round the meal out nicely.

Chestnut Growler plays drums for The Swaggerin' Growlers, a punk/folk band based in Boston, MA. He tours full time. This blog is about the food experienced on the road, the good, the bad, the homemade and the gas station sammiches. You can find the band here: The Swaggerin' Growlers