by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jan 14, 2020 | Food, Foodblog |
Like most Bengalis, I grew up eating pithe puli during Poush Sankranti. Till such time I was in Port Blair, my mother and my aunts made limited delicacies on sankranti and afterwards. It was only when I got back to Kolkata in 1992, that I saw my grandmother, going all...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jan 10, 2020 | Food, Foodblog |
A few years back, it was a dream to make blueberry muffins with fresh blueberries in Kolkata. While we were in Pune, we used to get fresh blueberries in season. Strawberries are always available in season throughout the country. In Kolkata however, it is only recently...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jan 9, 2020 | Food, Foodblog |
Every time I make chingri malaikari at home, I remember this remark made by Mr. Vir Sanghvi during one of our conversation. ‘..but Bongs don’t own the malaikari’, he said. Up until then, I did not know the history of this prawn dish, which is a household name in...
by Anindya | Dec 9, 2019 | Eating Out, Food, Foodblog |
Someday, I will ask a Gujarati how do they feel when someone sees them and asks Kem Cho? Maja ma cho? Meet a Bengali for the first time and tell him Ami tomake bhalobashi and Rosogulla and Mishti Doi. The Bengali Bhadralok won’t do anything to you but it hurts...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Dec 2, 2019 | Eating Out, Food |
It’s almost two months now that I am back from the ‘Unsavoured Pujo’ pop up at Mustard Mumbai. I have been wanting to share my stories of the pop up for quite sometime but with various commitments, this had taken a back seat. However, it’s...
by Anindya | Nov 27, 2019 | Hong Kong, Travel |
The idea of this blogpost has been on my mind for the last two years. Yes, this September I complete two years of my travel to Hong Kong. As I visited several places by MTR, I also walked extensively. At times, I even walked between Central and Tsim Sha Shui. Every...
by Anindya | Nov 16, 2019 | Food, Foodblog, Uncategorized |
The Kerala egg roast song and how it all started The origin of this post is when we got inspired from our friend Tanushree. She shared a picture of Kerala egg roast in our facebook post of Dim Kosha (Recipe). The recipe was simple, easy to make and looked similiar to...
by Anindya | Nov 11, 2019 | Eating Out, Food, Foodblog |
Monkey Bar Kolkata and the memories – We didn’t attend the launch of Monkey Bar Kolkata 3 years back. I don’t remember my first time there. However, I do remember, well before my first visit that the mural on the very high ceiling had become the...
by Anindya | Nov 6, 2019 | Food, Foodblog, Uncategorized |
Pakodas by Sangeeta Khanna reached me on a Rainy afternoon . This was a surprise. The timing was perfect though. It had stopped raining except for cloudy evenings, when Pakodas by Sangeeta Khanna reached me. I, literally, go weak in my knees in the evenings,...
by Anindya | Nov 4, 2019 | Food, Foodblog |
Murgir Dim, Hansher dim or Ghorar dim? Which one is more popular? I wonder which one amongst the three, mentioned above, is the most favourite amongst Bengalis. Is it the Poultry egg, Duck egg or Horse egg? The first two are an integral part of a Bengali household,...
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