by Madhushree Basu Roy | Feb 11, 2020 | Food, Foodblog, Uncategorized |
There is no such thing called a phulkopir cutlet, said Anindya. We have heard of phulkopir shingara, phulkopir bora, but never heard of phulkopir cutlet. I was making the menu for weekend takeaways from home. It was only the second weekend and I had been focusing on...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jan 29, 2020 | Food, Foodblog |
Today is a khichuri labra kind of day. It has been drizzling since morning with a lot of haze. More importantly, today is Saraswati Pujo. Saraswati is the goddess of wisdom, knowledge, music and all kinds of art. Hence for her puja, we keep books and musical...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jan 27, 2020 | Food, Foodblog |
Saraswati Puja around the corner and as a tradition, kuler chutney is made on that day and served with khichuri bhog. Kul is Indian berry and I am not really sure what is the exact English name but Wikipedia throws up ‘jujube’. However, I have some photo...
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...