by Madhushree Basu Roy | Nov 29, 2020 | Food, Foodblog |
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, well, other than the Sunday murgi or mangshor jhol. No surprise, we have a variety of recipes...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Nov 12, 2020 | Food, Foodblog |
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 takes over. And sugar cravings go through the roof. I don’t know if we are genetically wired for this...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Nov 10, 2020 | Food, Foodblog |
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 pops can be a Diwali mithai too and Tugga was eager to make it. Nowadays, he is heavily influenced by...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Nov 7, 2020 | Food, Foodblog |
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 funny but we are a strange lot. If French toasts can become savoury, I egg fried eggs can be...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Oct 2, 2020 | Food, Foodblog |
This season, I learnt to make shaplar bhyala. I tell Tugga all the time, learning never ends. Be it photography, house work, styling, cooking, baking, whatever we do, we are constantly learning. And even though, this was just some fritter (some would say), I was...
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