Ol er Dalna | Bengali Style Elephant Foot Yam
Bengali cuisine is not just varied but there are hundreds of nomenclatures for every kind of food. For us, it’s not a curry for everything or a bhaji for everything. From chorchori to dalna to jhol, to jhal, there are different names given to different foods,...
Doodh Potol | Parwal Bengali Recipe
Simple is always elegant, sometimes stunning. So is this recipe of doodh potol. Parwal or pointed gourd is cooked in milk and the resulting is a creamy light sauce with incredible flavour. When we talk about Bengali food nationally, we tend to ignore the vegetables....
Kolkata Durga Pujo 2019- Places to eat
The question isn’t – to eat or not to eat, the dilemma is where to eat? Ma wants a relief from cooking every year and like every year, she will end up trying the new delicacy which she has learnt from one of the cooking channels. Baba admonishes eating out...
Durga Puja 2015 – Reasons and places to eat out in Kolkata
The biggest festival of Bengalis is also the biggest festival of foods . The debate remains is whether to eat out or cook at home . This season I try to find out the reasons of eating out in DurgaPuja and places to eat out in Kolkata . Happy DurgaPuja 2015
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