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Potluck - Home is where Food is..

30-Nov-2007 by rachana.shakyawar

Its just a quarter of time I have been staying in BANGALORE.. one of the most profound IT city of INDIA. For almost a month I was having food outside..everyday discovering new tastes and restaurants of the city..which serves people of all sizes of pockets..

Almost fed up one fine day of all those I really liked..that is "enjoying new flavours", all I was craving for HOME-FOOD. I wanted food that was prepared by mom, less oily and spicy....this is something I never realised when I used to eat at home. I was missing my mom made food..

It was then when my Hubby took me POTLUCK...

For the time being I could not understand why did we came there....as we both are fond of good food and I could not expect that GOOD food at a HOME turned Restaurant-POTLUCK.

But I was wrong...the home turned restaurant was indeed homely-friendly and full of home-food aroma...!!

POTLUCK is situated close to some of d major IT companies like Honeywell, Oracle, Accenture, HSBC, IBM, Mahendra, Aris Gobal and above all (IIM)INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT,Bangalore.IIM-B

We find most of the IT company employees...and the IIM students.

The chairs were very comfortable and the table was of simply perfect height. All around it was neat and clean with almost superb warm colours on the wall, which made sitting and conversation there so easy.

And here came a uniformed waiter with water goblets and water-jug in his hand..good service.
All the utensils are stainless-steel and adds up to more homely Indian culture..

I was also amazed to find so much of variety in every section in the MENU-CARD. The starter were about 24 and main-dish about 20, breads variety was almost 18-20. It have everything Starter, Main dish, Bread, Rice, Desert, Accompaniments and Beverages.

Awesome collection and so affordable, my tummy was half full by having a glance to the menu..

We stared with the starter, MOONG-DAL CHILLA, Veg-omlette, Bread-Dhokla. It was served with mint chutney, which is indeed a delight.

And when the food came, the quantity seemed so optimum to consume whole. Believe me full points to the flavour, taste and smell of the food.

I simpled loved the chapati(Indian Wheat Bread).
In beverage, I took Mango-LASSI, which was smooth-sweet and had a nice flavour and smell of mango, with a refreshing taste.

Though i don't have a sweet tooth but i loved to eat the MOONG-DAL ka halwa there. It is so delicious, cooked in desi-GHEE, with chopped almonds.Simply ymmmmyyy...!!

There I got to know that the owner of the restaurant is no where related to hospitality or service industry....infact he is the SOFTWARE ENGINEER..who occationally visits Bangalore. It was his idea to start such reasutaurant at serves home made flavoured food....Well i Heartily salute him..for the wonderful idea...which serves the society so well..

Potluck is not the place to HANG-OUT...but to sit chit-chat..comfortably..relishing the food and memories of home and home made food...

So friends, in this way, POTLUCK became my favorite place to enjoy eating home made food.

Please visit the given link to the POTLUCK..
http://potluck.in/

Comments

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Snigdha says :

Nice Blog. I don't have a sweet tooth but since you have reminded me of moong-dal halwa, am more than tempted to make some right away.

Posted on: 1 December 2007 - 6:36pm

Little chef says :

this is gud to knw...will u giv me the receipe moong dal halwa...this shall be really Chweet of u...anyway thanx for reading...

Posted on: 2 December 2007 - 5:46am

Little chef says :

This is gud to knw...]wuill u giv me the receipe of the moong dal ka halwa...

Posted on: 2 December 2007 - 5:47am

Snigdha says :

Hi Little Chef...here is the recipe for Moong Dal Halwa. Ingredients ------------- Moong Dal - 1 cup Ghee/clarified butter - 2 tbs Milk - ½ cup Water- 1 cup Sugar - 5 tbs (more if you like it sweeter Khoya/Kova/Mava (optional) - ¼rth cup Saffron threads - a few Cardamom powder - ½ tsp Chopped nuts (pistachios, almonds, raisins) - to garnish Method -------- Soak Moong Dal in warm water for about 2 hrs and grind it into a coarse paste. Heat ghee in a skillet and add the coarse moong dal paste to it and fry until water evaporates and the paste starts to lightly brown. In a cup of warm water add sugar and mix well. Add this to the moong dal paste and mix well. Warm milk and add saffron threads to it, add this mixture to the moong dal paste and keep stirring until the halwa starts to thicken. At this point you can also add some Khoya if you wish to. Mix in cardamom powder. Garnish with chopped nuts and serve hot.

Posted on: 3 December 2007 - 1:20pm

rachana.shakyawar says :

hi dear...thanx..yaarr...for this receipe....its grt...me too soon going to make it...:)

Posted on: 3 December 2007 - 12:53pm

madhvi says :

hi everybody, nice to see soo many food lovers coming together! i work for this company called hospitality initiatives, a co. that promotes tourism through wine & food. they have 2 magazines - taste & travel which is a Pan-India magazine and Food Lovers which is Bengalooru-centric. Besides the mags, we conduct a course once a month on 'Wine Appreciation for Beginners'. So far, 4 such courses have taken place and more, many more, will happen soon. another initiative is the Food Lovers Food Guide, a comprehensive, research-based food guide. the approach to putting the food guide together is quite different and this guide will not give you every restaurant in town, just the ones you MUST visit. right from rs50 for a meal to rs 2000 for a meal, the best restaurant in each segment will be showcased with comments from actual diners and food lovers. i am in charge of this project and so far have spoken to over 100 people,getting to know their fav restaurants and their food recommendations. we are trying to target a total of 800-1000 people and this is a BIG task! if you foodies would like to help/contribute, please send me a mail on and we'll work it together! looking forward to a lottttt of mails :) meanwhile, bon appetit!

Posted on: 17 March 2008 - 12:57am

subbashastri says :

Hi all foodies, i came across a new website which is a food guide and provides online table booking www.eveningflavors.com. Check it yes there are many other similar sites but this is unique.

Posted on: 10 June 2009 - 8:58am