Eat This: Indian Meals From North Bend’s Twin Peaks Meals and Fuel

When my husband first texted me on the best way house from mountain biking that he’d purchased lamb and goat curry from a fuel station, I apprehensive this might be just like the time he purchased steaks from a rando in a dive bar. Professional tip: Don’t purchase steaks from a rando in a dive bar. (Tamales, sure; steaks, no.)

Fortunately, this was a completely totally different animal (pun supposed). A couple of nights later, we defrosted the pint containers and heated up the homemade-looking lamb saag and goat curry. Then we sat right down to a meal higher than most Indian takeout within the metropolis, with tender meats afloat in wealthy, spicy stews.

Since that first doubtful textual content, we’ve made the Twin Peaks Meals and Fuel in North Bend an everyday cease when heading house from out of doors actions. The fuel station itself is about as typical as they arrive, simply off exit 34 on I-90, serving numerous American-style fried delicacies, a broad collection of chips, sweet, and sodas. Solely there are a couple of additional freezers, tucked away within the nook on the finish of the counter subsequent to the Bitcoin ATM. Two are stocked with greater than a dozen homestyle Indian dishes, $15–20 a pint, together with shahi paneer, malai kofta, bhindi masala, butter hen, and my private favourite, the goat curry. The opposite two comprise commercially made frozen Indian meals—numerous naans, parathas, samosas, and pakora. We’ve had much less good luck with these, although they do in a pinch to spherical out a meal.

After an extended day of snowboarding at Snoqualmie, few issues sound extra nice than stopping in to seize one thing that can turn into a sizzling, spicy meal for a household of 4 in much less time to warmth up than it takes that very same household to unpack the automobile.