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,...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Oct 31, 2019 | Food, Foodblog, Uncategorized |
It’s spooky week once again and I stayed up in the middle of the night to make a special treat for my son. These are Halloween monster cookies with candy googly eyes. And before I go into making of the cookies, let me be clear. These cookies are not meant for...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Oct 25, 2019 | Food, Foodblog, Uncategorized |
Gulab Jamun is one of the most popular Indian sweet world wide. However, to us Bengalis, it is it’s distant cousin, Pantua, which is favoured. It looks like a gulab jamun but is made with different ingredients. Hence, it has a distinct taste as well. I did not...
by Anindya | Oct 18, 2019 | Food, Travel |
The trigger to take a break at Vivanta Kolkata, Bypass Madhushree was back from a successful food festival in Mustard Mumbai and I was exhausted managing two kids. This was, in fact, the first Durga Puja that Madhushree and I spent separately. Since the time she came...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Oct 17, 2019 | Food, Foodblog |
Like many other posts of mine, this post is also past its time. We had completed the shooting of bhuni khichuri sometime in the beginning of September. However, due to paucity of time and my upcoming food festival at Mustard, Mumbai, I couldn’t complete the...
by Anindya | Oct 6, 2019 | Photoblogs, Photography |
Rimli wont be able to go for pandal hopping today. Till last evening she covered baghbazar, Chaltabagan but today is different. She will wake up early in the morning, will take a shower and then get ready. It’s Ashtami and Kumari Pujo. Kanjak / Kanya Pujan /...
by Anindya | Oct 2, 2019 | Eating Out, Food |
This is the fourth Grand Pujor Mahabhoj that we attended. I remember the first one that I attended in 2016 was at Gharana, as the all day dining Threesixtythree was under renovation then. I have almost no memories for the 2017 one and that only confirms I am getting...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Sep 30, 2019 | Food, Foodblog |
What is your favourite begun or eggplant recipe? Personally, I love begun posto and then begun basanti. Having said that, begun posto, shorshe begun and begun basanti are almost similar. I could probably group them together. They have two common ingredients, mustard...