by Anindya | Nov 23, 2021 | Eating Out |
There are many gems in my city yet some always remain to be discovered and experienced again. Discovery is a wrong word and will be condemned by many. How do you discover a place in the year 2021 which has been in existence since 1937? How do you call a place a gem...
by Anindya | Nov 22, 2021 | Food, Foodblog |
One of my Mami (maternal aunt) is Sindhi. She is born and brought up in Kolkata, speaks Bengali fluently too. And she loves shukto and luchi more than any average Bengali. She never lets a chance go to wear her shankha-pola and go for a Sindoor khela. A lady with...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Nov 19, 2021 | Food, Foodblog |
Like I had written in my previous post on pui shaaker chorchori, Bengali recipe names are often based on their cooking techniques. And some of the names are quite funny too. Bandhakopir ghonto is one such funny name. I mean, why ‘ghonto’? I have always...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Nov 8, 2021 | Food, Foodblog |
Recently we had written about different kinds of chorchori on Instagram. It became a huge talking point on social media and everyone came out with their favourite chorchori recipes. One of them did point out that it was spelled incorrectly and that the right spelling...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Nov 1, 2021 | Food, Foodblog |
Anindya says that Social Media is a hungry beast. We have to feed it every day for it to survive. The same goes for this website too. Maybe not everyday, but we do have to maintain a social calendar and write relevant recipes and other blog posts. It’s that time...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Oct 28, 2021 | Food, Foodblog |
Come October, kids everywhere go berserk over Halloween treats. Perhaps it has to do with all the youtube videos that they consume, they feel that Halloween is part of our tradition. But when it’s something fun and good, does it really matter whether it’s...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Oct 26, 2021 | Food, Foodblog |
A decade back, no one thought that we could have bean-to-bar chocolate that is made in India. There were perhaps a few chocolate makers but either they were very expensive or unknown. Good quality chocolate in itself was expensive and dark chocolate was only imported....
by Anindya | Oct 20, 2021 | Photography, Uncategorized |
Deyga natural products for community of Eco Conscious customers Arthi Raguram, the founder of Deyga, is a new-age entrepreneur whose passion for creating nature-inspired, self care products has been a driving force of the brand. Her skincare journey began very early...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Oct 19, 2021 | Food, Foodblog |
This post has been in the planning since the time we received the book sometime last year. It took me just a day, amidst the chaos at home, to finish reading. And I loved it. Later on, for one of the gatherings at home, I had cooked niramish mangsho with reference...
by Anindya | Oct 15, 2021 | Food, Foodblog |
The year that should be wiped out – We didn’t celebrate Pujo this year. We didn’t step out other than one small work. As planned earlier, we spent time with ourselves and the kids. This year is one which I really want to be wiped out from the...