What does recovering from Covid -19 look like
Yes, I am a COVID-19 Survivor. For a few moments there, I thought it would be a knockout but I managed to raise my hand and lift myself before the referee...
Mango Mastani – The Famous Mango Milkshake from Pune
Anindya and I spent beautiful four and a half years in Pune. This was before the kids came into existence. So those four and half years were perhaps the most...
Ma, Mangshor Jhol and the partner I lost
How do you handle grief? How do you handle the loss of the nearest one and at the same time, struggle and fight for your life. I rarely pour my heart out...
Peshawari Namkeen Gosht | Namak Gosht | Pakistani Mutton Recipe
It's not necessary that all mutton recipes have to be rich. This particular recipe is as light as it goes. For us Bongs, after fish, mutton tops our list. And...
Lemon Rice on a Summer Afternoon
The summer heat is literally killing. Cooking has become an impossible task. To top that, we have to plan our meals and finish grocery shopping by 10 AM....
Doi er ghol recipe two ways- a summer essential
Doi er ghol brings back so many memories of childhood. After school, when you come back home in the scorching summer heat, there would be either aam pora...
Till Then Keep Snacking
In the early part of my career, my office was at Gillander House, Kolkata. This place is the business as well as the street food hub of Kolkata. With umpteen...
Kocoatrait launches the new spice collection of chocolates
There was rarely anyone of my age who hadn't developed a crush on that famous Cadbury girl. And remember that background song - kuchh Khas hai hum sabhi mein?...
Easy Mango Salsa Recipe For Summer
Summer means mangoes and summer also means salads. The sun is burning bright and there is just no respite from the heat. The air conditioners are working...
10 Must-Try Bengali Recipes on Poila Baisakh
It's that time of the year once again. The mercury is rising on an everyday basis and mangoes are slowly popping out from the vegetable seller's cart. It's...
Andhra Pepper Chicken | Restaurant Style Andhra Chicken
Are you one of those people always looking for recipes for party appetizers? Then you are in the right place. Andhra pepper chicken is super easy to make. I...
Orange Carrot Ginger Smoothie and what good it will do to you
Are you big on smoothies and shakes? Summer means smoothies for us or protein shakes for breakfast. It's the end of February and the mercury is already on the...
Thandai Kulfi – an easy to make Holi Recipe
This Holi, it's going to be thandai kulfi! Of course, thandai is omnipresent. I thought, why not do a dessert as well. The kids love kulfi and ice-cream and...
Lemon and Coconut Slice with Aniseed Myrtle- A perfect afternoon snack
As promised, I am back with another post on the Tourism Australia project with Native Australian Ingredients. It was Masterchef Australia where we had come to...
Kasturi Banerjee and Rushdah Humaira creating new Rum and Chocolate
In 2016 when I first met Neha Panchal, I was awestruck. She was one of the first lady mixologists that I met. Urban Foundry on then-upcoming Balewadi High...
How to use Native Australian Ingredients in Bengali cooking?
Like many, I am an ardent follower of Masterchef Australia right from its inception. Way back, I wasn't documenting recipes anywhere, but I loved cooking for...
Hotel Sidheshwari Ashram Kolkata – How three women are carrying ahead the legacy of pice hotels
Paramount, Aminia, Dilkhusha Cabin, Mitra Cafe, Royal India Hotel Chitpur are some of the names which come together when we speak about old eateries in...
Tiramisu – there is no ‘authentic’ recipe
Tiramisu is not a dessert I make often. I can actually count on my fingers and tell you how many times I made tiramisu in the last decade. However, each time,...
Dal Gosht With Sadaf Hussain and Late Sadia Dehlvi
Finally, the dots connected over Dal Gosht Often in life, we rarely fathom how some unfulfilled wishes become a reality. Dal Gosht is not a story of dream...
Bengali Masoor Dal Khichuri/ Khichdi with Dimer Mamlette
There is khichdi for the rest of the country but we Bongs, take immense pride in our different types of khichdi. We have bhuni khichuri, which is the dry...
Motor Dal Bhate | Matar Dal Mash
Oh my! I don't think I can come up with an appropriate title for this post. How do I translate motor dal bhate in English? Just a 'mash' cannot possibly...
Mulo Diye Motor Dal | Yellow Split Pea Cooked With Radish
On the 8th day on #11daysofdal, I realised how much we have learned about the various uses of dal in the Indian subcontinent. It has been a huge learning and...
Narkel Diye Cholar Dal- the best half of luchi or kochuri
Cholar Dal and Luchi are inseparable. I have often wondered what makes Cholar Dal so desirable? Isn't it like any other dal? In the larger classification,...
Strawberry Tart – An Easy Recipe with Cream Cheese
This is probably the first time in years that I have sat on a box of strawberries. Procrastination is a sin. I wonder why it was not part of the seven deadly...
Orange Cinnamon Hot Chocolate for the Season
It seems like orange cinnamon is the flavor of the season. We've had cakes with orange cinnamon. We had the orange cinnamon chocolate from Rushk chocolates,...
Circar Ruchulu at ITC Royal Bengal by Chef Praveen Anand
Chef Praveen Anand doesn't need any introduction. His culinary skills are illustrious, his research on South Indian Cuisine is now legendary. In the Indian...
Homemade Orange Marmalade – Are you an orange person?
What kind of a fruit person are you? Which fruits literally call out to you or are you one of those fruit haters, like the rest of my family? I am huge on...
Soru Chakli | Shoru Chakli Pitha on Poush Sankranti
Kolkata winter has become quite strange for the last couple of years. All of December, it is just pleasant barring the last week. It's almost like the weather...
Chef Urvika Kanoi is expressing her winterfood memories at The Daily Cafe Kolkata
Good food needs special shoutout. Some food evokes emotion which calls out for writing and archiving the experience. Many say, who reads a blog these days but...
Beguner Khagina | Scrambled Eggplant and Eggs
I had never heard of this dish. In fact, it had never occurred to me that eggs could be blended with eggplant. However, with lockdown, we came across several...
Mocambo Kolkata keeps singing like an evergreen hit
The first time I thought of writing about Mocambo Kolkata was around 2015. That draft still remains. This time around, I didn't want to miss the chance and...
Fulkopi diye Dimer Jhol | Omelette Curry with Cauliflower
When it's winter, cauliflower cannot be far behind. When we started the blog, we had made Hara Bhara Gobi . A blog post is written with emotion and images...
Bengali Garam Masala | Bengali Gorom Moshla – It’s different
Garam masala always has many different spices with a complex flavour profile. However, when it comes to Bengali garam masala, there is nothing complicated...
Doodh Maach- A versatile stew that goes with any kind of fish
Maacher jhol- the term is literally synonymous with all Bengalis. It's part of our staple diet and isn't something we have once in a while. It's every day,...
How about some Aloo Kabli today
Aloo Kabli was the first street food love Long before jhalmuri, bhelpuri and phuchka swayed my heart, there was aloo kabli. It is like the childhood crush and...
Chocolate Badam Burfi | Chocolate Almond Fudge for Diwali
The festivities are almost never ending towards the end of the year. Right from Durga Puja till New Year's eve, eating out, making sweets, cakes and more...
Cake Pops for Diwali made by Tugga
Cake pops for Diwali? That's what I told Tugga, my 8 year old son, when he insisted on cake pops for Diwali mithai ideas. His friend Anwita had said that cake...
Meathead – Pork belly Sandwich , the new entrant
It's almost two years that Kalman cold storage - the cult sausage shop in Kolkata, has closed down. A small, hole in the wall outlet, it has always been a...
Turkish Poached Eggs and I got over my fear of poaching eggs
As a Bengali, you grow up understanding that poached eggs or 'dim'er poach' is a fried egg, which is folded and cooked with a runny yolk intact. Strange and...
The journey to 500 subscription for Cook with Pikturenama
Madhushree and I had decided to not work during Pujo. We had just completed Pujo reels last Saturday. There was an emptiness from the minute it ended. You can...
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