Kolai Dal | Bengali Biulir Dal: My homecoming in a bowl
Most often, we tend to search for the best outside the daily normal? In the process, we tend to forget the beauty in the simplest things around us. It needs a...
Shahi Paneer Recipe Restaurant Style
When you run out of ideas to make something special for your vegetarian guests, look no further and make shahi paneer. It might look like a heavy-duty recipe,...
Koraishutir Kochuri – One that completes winter
Winter meant a lot of things for us. From Pithe puli to cricket and Komla Lebu or orange there were many small little things to take us down memory lane. We...
Food Photography 101 – Tips for newbies
Food photography is a type of photography that uses food as its subject. In the past, photographers only captured food for cook books, restaurant...
Bengali Aloo Dum | Niramish Aloo’r Dom
It took me fifteen minutes to figure out the keyword for this post. We call it alur dom. However, SEO says Bengali aloo dum generates better hits. Hence,...
Afternoon Fruit Loaf – No Yeast Recipe
Happy Holidays Everyone! Christmas is over but the Christmassy feeling is yet to go. This is the season for cakes and we are practically having fruit cakes...
Bengali Mutton Stew Healthy Recipe
Don't frown at the title. Mutton is not really bad for health contrary to what Indian doctors suggest. In fact, mutton in the Indian context is goat meat. It...
Commercial LPG price increase what Kolkata restaurateurs have to say.
This came at a point when it was least expected. If you tell me you don't know what has happened with the F& B Industry in the last 18 months, then I will...
5 rice noodles you need to try this year
Rice noodles originated in the south of China made of rice flour and water. They are placed in water rice storage for up to nine months to age. It's then...
Pan-Roasted Cauliflower Soup | Vegan Cauliflower Soup Recipe
It is the season for cauliflowers once again and we love it. Cauliflowers literally take over the kitchen and we add it to most of everything. And with...
Places to Visit in Rome Italy for First-Timers
Rome is one of those places where seeing everything in a few days is impossible, especially for first-timers. Italian cuisines, old Roman architecture and the...
The Tangra Project by Chef Vikramjit Roy is the best contemporary Bangali food
We went to The Tangra Project, the ambitious restaurant by Chef Vikramjit Roy, Vir Kotak and Anurodh Samal for a project with Pikturenama Studios and that was...
Chicken Cutlet Kolkata Style With Minced Chicken
We Bengalis love deep-fried food and most of our street food is deep-fried. Chicken cutlet is popular street food from Kolkata. Kolkata-style chicken cutlet...
Broadway Hotel Kolkata- a gem that we all need to be proud about
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...
Keema Bhindi recipe and an insight into Sindhi cuisine
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...
Bandhakopir Ghonto- Bengali Style Cabbage Stir-Fry
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...
Pui Shaaker Chorchori | Bengali Style Vegetable Stir-fry with Pui Saag
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...
White Chocolate Bark recipe for Diwali 2021
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...
Pumpkin Cupcakes with Whole-Wheat Flour For Halloween
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...
BeeTee’s Melt Chocolates- Homegrown Bean to Bar Chocolate
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...
Deyga Products – A perfect combination of nature and goodness
Deyga natural products for community of Eco Conscious customers Arthi Raguram, the founder of Deyga, is a new-age entrepreneur whose passion for creating...
Niramish Mangsho and Those Delicious Letters
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....
Narkel diye niramish ghugni-Bijoya Doshomi special
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...
What reduces the strength and immunity in adults?
As we grow old, a lot of things start happening in the body in the background without a tell-tale sign. All of a sudden, the lungs start screaming out for...
Panch Rokom Bhaja | Bengali Bhaja or Fried Vegetable Platter for Khichuri
There are so many kinds of khichuri in Bengali cuisine with specific side dishes. Typically, bhoger khichuri or a bhuni khichuri is accompanied by five kinds...
Bhoger Khichuri | Bengali Durga Puja Khichuri | Bengali Bhoger Khichuri
When you are going through a deep personal crisis, it is almost impossible to find your creative self or write. Alexa says that we have been neglecting the...
Chicken or Mutton – what goes well for a Bengali on a Sunday?
Dada, you are from Kolkata? Bhalo achhi? Ami tomake Bhalobashe .. Machhi Bhat khabe? When loosely translated these are the most common welcome dialogues you...
Orange Chicken Rice Bowl- The Quick-fix for Weeknight Dinner
I am always on the lookout for quick dinner recipes. Lunch is always a well-planned Bengali meal and breakfast is normally eggs and bread in variations....
Chicken Tikka Masala and Butter chicken two sides of the same coin?
What are some of the popular Indian dishes across the globe? Be it abroad or even in India, if you enter a multicuisine restaurant or a restaurant known for...
Peyaj Diye Masoor Dal | Bengali Masoor Dal with Onions
Dal in everyday life There are few things that we cannot compromise as an Indian. Dal is one such food. Ask anyone about the combination of dal and rice or...
Houseboat Experience in Kashmir – A Floating Paradise
Imagine a romantic evening spent by the cedar-wood railing that frames a boat-like boat moored near Dal Lake's outskirts. Have you ever thought about having a...
Pabda Macher Jhol | Pabda Macher Alu Ar Bodi Diye Jhol | Pabda Fish Curry
Bengal has such a wide variety of fresh water and river water fish. If we begin to name them, we can cover all the alphabets of the English language. Other...
5 things to do in Kashmir for couples
If there is one heaven on Earth it is Kashmir for sure. Kashmir has for long been the ultimate destination for Honeymooners. The snow-clad mountains...
Loitta Macher Jhuri | Bombay Duck Stir-Fry with Potatoes
While growing up, I never tasted Loitta mach or Bombay duck as it is commonly known. Although I grew up by the sea (in Port Blair) and my father had quite an...
10 Mutton Recipes to Try Before You Die
Amongst all the animal proteins that we have, mutton is our favourite. Oh, of course, it's not something we consume every day (you know, all the cholesterol...
Bhapa Ilish Shorshe Bata Diye | Steamed Hilsa with Mustard Paste
The sound of the tiffin box hitting against the metal kadai sitting inside a pool of bubbling water is a sign of what's to come next. It's almost lunchtime...
Lemon Ricotta Cake- An Italian Tea-Cake
I remember Anindya mentioning a soft and moist tea-cake baked with ricotta cheese after his tour from Italy. He brought a suitcase full of truffle products,...
Kerala Mutton Roast – Mutton Ularthiyathu Recipe
Recently, we put up a post on Instagram about 7 mutton recipes to try before you die. It was an instant hit with our followers. While putting up the post, I...
Peyaji and the connection with Lakshmi Narayan Shaw and sons
What does Peyaji remind you of? You cross the border in West Bengal and they call it Peyaju in Bangladesh. Peyaj is Onion in Bengali hence the name Peyaji....
10 Must-Try Bengali Monsoon Recipes
When it is raining cats and dogs, these are the 10 must-try Bengali monsoon recipes. From khichuri, begun bhaja to ilish mach bhaja and shorshe ilish, this...