Sunday is the day of rest. It's a day
to spend quality time with loved ones, to have delicious lunch then to enjoy few
hours of recreation or a long snooze.
I love Sundays
It was easy to locate the studio at
the back of Survodaya society at Santacruz, (a large garage is artistically
transformed in state-of-art studio) Green and yellow entrance stirs the positive
moods immediately. The studio is tastefully done with food quotes adorning the
furniture and the shelves, hand-painted plates on one wall, while colorful
kitchen articles on other, all shining brilliant under numerous spotlights.
An open kitchen in the center of the
room was the setting of the proceeding for the morning. The table was set with
all the ingredients we would require to grill the meals: raw meat of
lamb/chicken/sea food, marinated meat and vegetables, sauces, dips, salads, condiments,
all neatly arranged increasing our hunger pangs with every glance.
The idea was to understand the
product and its usefulness. I remember having grill food at Korean restaurants where the center of the table is the hot plate and we are served raw meat and
veggies, that we toss it on the hot plate and watch it cook while we drink. The
idea is similar. Recletta grill can be placed in the center of the dinning
table; every guest gets his own pan that fills the grill.
We used it to melt Recletta cheese
and made egg omelets that we poured over grilled meat. Most of us made our own
choice of combinations of meat and veggies. Very soon the kitchen was smoky and
fragrant with roasted smell of food.
Aspri, the official spirit partner
served some amazing white and red wine during the brunch. I am not much fond of
drinks, but having said that I did try the sparkling white wine and it tasted
good with meals.
All said and done, it was an
entertaining brunch. Meeting food bloggers is always a wonderful experience of
sharing notes and getting inspired to try something new, the food, the wine,
the company, everything seamlessly falling in place.
Came back home with beautifully
gift-wrapped plum cake stuffed with fruits and raisins that I shared with my
family during late afternoon. It tasted divine with a cup of coffee.
Honestly, life cannot get better than
this.
Thank you Rakhee Vaswani for hosting
the event at your Palate Culinary Studio, thanks to Sameer Malkani of FBAI for
the invite and thanks to food bloggers who shared their morning with me
