ShottleBop
04-26-2009, 08:51 AM
Mrs. ShottleBop and I drove up to Los Angeles yesterday to have dinner with the daughter who lives up there and the son in from NY for the weekend with a new girlfriend. We went to the Electric Lotus (in the Los Feliz area).
We ordered the Chicken Tikka dinner for two. It comes with Chicken Tikka, two veggie samosas, chicken curry, and a choice of veggies. (It also comes with rice and naan, as well as a dessert, but I didn't eat any of those.) We chose Palek Paneer (spinach and paneer (cottage cheese, but sometimes they substitute tofu) for our veggie.
They didn't have coffee, but offered chai tea. I asked if it was sweetened, but didn't remember that milk is an ingredient. (I generally avoid milk--and even cottage cheese--because the lactose can spike me.)
Since my BGs had been under 100 all day long, I decided it would be OK to try one of the veggie samosas (they were small-perhaps the size of a golf ball) and to drink the chai tea. I was, after all, eating a lot of other food.
One hour after starting dinner, my BG was 138--my first reading over 130 in over five weeks. By two hours, I was down to 107, but I ran "high"--for me--all evening. At bedtime--5 1/2 hours after dinner, my reading was 104. Even my middle-of-the-night numbers, which had been dipping to the mid-80s, stayed in the 90s last night.
Verdict: I love Indian food, and this was very good. I like to keep my BG below 120, however. Next time, I'd skip the samosa (my first "bread" of any sort for months, not counting 4 square inches of matzah at Passover) and the chai tea--a nice cold Indian beer would have contributed less to a spike.
We ordered the Chicken Tikka dinner for two. It comes with Chicken Tikka, two veggie samosas, chicken curry, and a choice of veggies. (It also comes with rice and naan, as well as a dessert, but I didn't eat any of those.) We chose Palek Paneer (spinach and paneer (cottage cheese, but sometimes they substitute tofu) for our veggie.
They didn't have coffee, but offered chai tea. I asked if it was sweetened, but didn't remember that milk is an ingredient. (I generally avoid milk--and even cottage cheese--because the lactose can spike me.)
Since my BGs had been under 100 all day long, I decided it would be OK to try one of the veggie samosas (they were small-perhaps the size of a golf ball) and to drink the chai tea. I was, after all, eating a lot of other food.
One hour after starting dinner, my BG was 138--my first reading over 130 in over five weeks. By two hours, I was down to 107, but I ran "high"--for me--all evening. At bedtime--5 1/2 hours after dinner, my reading was 104. Even my middle-of-the-night numbers, which had been dipping to the mid-80s, stayed in the 90s last night.
Verdict: I love Indian food, and this was very good. I like to keep my BG below 120, however. Next time, I'd skip the samosa (my first "bread" of any sort for months, not counting 4 square inches of matzah at Passover) and the chai tea--a nice cold Indian beer would have contributed less to a spike.