Shooting an ILS approach after 14 years. It was on Microsoft flight simulator, but it was worth knowing, it was consoling to know that I still know the things. I decided to fly out from Lakefront airport, as I was familiar with the environment. I decided to fly out to Gulfport airport which is just over 50 nautical miles from Lakefront airport at New Orleans. It was the flight path which was flown by me when I did my first cross-country flight. I asked for an IFR clearance and it was given as cleared for Gulfport airport as filed asking me to climb to 3000 feet. I was on runways 18R and decided to keep the climate foggy to get a real feel of using the ILS approach. I put in the throttle and climbed out, after a positive rate of climb I made a left turn to 067 degrees. The GPS showed that the airport was 54 NM from here. Since it was all white outside there was not anything to look around except to track the instruments. It was easy to maintain the altitude however, it was difficu...
Often there is little connection between eating out and eating healthy.
When we are going for taste and searching for the best option, we will have to compromise with healthy food.
Momos, spring rolls, fried rice, burger, patties, noodles, and the list goes on. The majority of the restaurants are providing taste.
Even we as customers are attracted towards a restaurant that has the best taste.
Few days back, me and three of my family members were out for lunch, but our priority was to eat tasty food and eat healthy.
After juggling through numerous options, my wife suggested a restaurant that serves tikki made of millets.
This was a new thing and to our knowledge there is only one restaurant that is serving this.
Good thing was, my wife forgot the name of the restaurant which serves this dish. The only thing she remembered was that it is somewhere in sector 35 of Chandigarh.
Well, it was already 2 pm and everyone was starving and no one had the patience to search through the entire sector 35 Chandigarh market to spot that restaurant.
From one corner of the market to the other, slowly we scanned through all the restaurants that were there.
More of it we were guessing as to who would be serving millet dishes. We had already searched on Google baba but there was no clear cut answer.
The SEO of this millets serving restaurant was weak as its name is still not being picked up.
Anyways, after reaching the other corner of sector 35 market we decided to have one more go and this time we will be a little slower reading each restaurant name properly.
If we are not able to spot that millet serving restaurant this time, we will drop the idea and pick up another option.
We were almost half way to make an exit from sector 35 chandigarh market, when on the one corner my wife spotted a restaurant named Jhumroo - which describes itself as North India’s first Millet restaurant.
Eureka!
We parked our vehicle and went inside, and the lovely smell of what was being cooked filled my nostrils.
This Jhumroo restaurant is not actually facing the road, but is turned at an angle, this makes it difficult for easy spotting.
Looks like this location would have been costing less and since not many people know about it, made for a sensible decision.
Even when we stepped inside the Jhumroo restaurant it was empty, except for the three waiters there was no one.
We made ourselves comfortable in the seats, before popping inside the menu.
All their dishes were made of millet and this made it difficult to decide as to how they will taste.
Meaning all their breads, that is puri, dosa, or roti were made of millets. So after scanning the menu, we ordered three items.
The first item that we ordered was litti chokha, one of the most famous dishes of eastern UP and Bihar.
I have a very distant memory of litti chokha, I was in Kanpur and working as a medical representative when I had it for the first time.
The person was sitting under a public water tank and the road was closed, so we could park and enjoy the dish at ease and comfort.
When I had litti chokha in Gorakhpur, it was by the roadside. Trust me it was really amazing, and at 30 rupees I had a stomach full of it.
Another time I had litti chokha was when I was in Gurgaon, present Gurugram, on this occasion as well I had it by the road side. On all the three occasions that taste had been amazing.
I should mention that on the above three occasions, these places were crowded, since they serve economically, so it was an easy pick for the working class.
The litti chokha that is served at Jhumroo restaurant is truly amazing, a little bit on the spicy side, but that is okay, because we Indians love spicy food don’t we.
Just one thing, the quantity was less, for it was priced 170 rupees, and they only served one piece. In Gorakhpur for 30 rupees they served 3 pieces, plus as much vegetable as you want to have.
I agree that it is made of millet and that it is healthy and we eat in this well decorated air-conditioned restaurant, but for an adult diet, we need a minimum of 2 pieces.
Well anyways.
The next two items that we ordered were bajra poori thaal and dosa. I do not remember which dosa it was, but yes, it was dosa that is for sure.
Both the items were plentiful and tasted best. For the four of us it was sufficient to satisfy our hunger and our taste buds too.
The dosa that we ordered at Jhumroo restaurant at sector 35 Chandigarh was plentiful, on the first look it was pleasing to admire.
This was the first time that I was having a dosa made out of millets and I must say that they have made it to perfection.
There were three types of chutneys, and sambhar served along with the dosa.
The issue of quantity that we had with litti chokha was resolved as millet dosa was served to us.
At present the Jhumroo restaurant serves what is said on the menu, all the three dishes were perfectly made.
I must also mention the good nature of the female waitress who served us, had a pleasing personality and carried out the proceeding well.
She was quite descriptive of the questions that were posed by my wife. These women feel satisfied through verbal communication, don't they?
Even though there was only one table that was occupied, still the waitress had the patience to flash a smile and explain everything to our satisfaction.
I am not much aware of the health benefits or harm of millet, but millet which we call bajra in Hindi is an age-old used staple diet of Indian households.
My grandmother used to make roti of bajra, and they say that this wheat is being brought in by the British rulers.
Bajra was very reasonably priced during that time and was within the reach of even the least paid person.
British people pushed in the wheat because they wanted to make money, this is why it is called a cash crop.
Well, anyway.
People in villages and small towns used to make roti of bajra only. Thing is that bajra or millet is considered to give a lot of energy to the body and in case you are not physically active, eating millet can be harmful, as it will not be digested by the body and may cause indigestion.
So, this concept is not new as claimed by Jhumroo restaurant, yes to the present generation, for all those born around or after 2000 this is certainly that was unheard of.
And yes, Jhumroo needs to pick up some marketing for itself. It has good dishes, and most likely people will like it, but the need is to create awareness.
Hopefully this article of mine will reach more people and it may contribute to increasing its presence.
But the thing is, we did not taste the dish for which we came to this restaurant and that is tikki made of millet.
Well, this is left for the next time when we come here, hopefully it maintains its taste still.
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