Dim Kosha – the slow cooked Bengali egg delicacy
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...
Halloween Monster Cookies I Cake Mix Cookies
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...
Pantua- The Bengali Gulab Jamun but it’s Different
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...
A day’s break at Vivanta Kolkata EM Bypass
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...
Bhuni Khichuri I Bengali Bhuna Khichdi
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....
Why ask for Santanan Dehi when Kumari Pujo gets opposed ?
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...
Grand Pujor Mahabhoj 2019, the story of unsung heroes
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...
Begun Basanti- Eggplants cooked the Bengali way in a mustard and yogurt sauce
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...
Kolkata Durga Pujo 2019- Places to eat
The question isn't - to eat or not to eat, the dilemma is where to eat? Ma wants a relief from cooking every year and like every year, she will end up trying...
Macher Dimer Borar torkari on Vishwakarma Pujo?
Strange isn't it that I am talking about macher dimer borar torkari on Vishwakarma Pujo rather than mangsher jhol? Vishwakarma Pujo has always been a very...
90 years of Aminia, Biryani and Beyond
When it comes to Biryani, Kolkatans are fiercely protective about the Calcutta Biryani or now, the Kolkata biryani. Any other biryani doesn’t stand a chance...
The best chocolate cake for a simple birthday celebration
The Birthday boy and his best chocolate cake. Few days back, I got introduced to Samar Halankar in a column in livemint, where he explains how his birthday...