Carrot Cake once again but with new pictures
The first time I had baked a carrot cake was eons ago, sometime in the late 90s. It came up in the blog in December 2015. Tugga was almost 4 and wanted a...
How to make Dulce de Leche at home
Dulce de leche is often mistaken as caramel. It looks like caramel and is as sweet as caramel but the ingredients and the way of making is completely...
Amitav Ghosh and Sunita Narain speak on Climate change at Terra Madre Salone del Gusto 2018
This is as recent as this year Kali Pujo. If you are from Kolkata, then you would remember how we woke up to a smoggy suffocating Kolkata the next morning and...
How to make Posto Murgi/ Chicken Poppy Seed Curry – A SEO friendly headline
It is for the first time a recipe headline goes like this - A SEO friendly headline and why not. In my last post, I had written about how often the recipe...
Kumro Meter chorchori | Pumpkin and mutton liver stir fried
I had to start this blogpost on this note from Andhadhun, the recent hit movie which is making news. - What is life? A character asks in the movie. - It all...
Vintage Asia Kolkata has a new chef in Alexsander Cheng and a new menu too
There is nothing permanent except change. Heraclitus So in true style, Vintage Asia completely changed their menu and brought in new flavours while adapting...
Apple Jalebi- It’s the small things in life that matters
As I sit and reminisce about the last year, I realise that how much small things, events or incidents in life give you so much happiness and a sense of...
Yes I had Bicerin at Caffe San Carlo Turin
Yes, finally I tasted Bicerin in Turin and that too, in Caffe San Carlo. Bicerin (pronounced as bee- cheh- reen) is the national drink of Turin, made of 1/3...
Easy Halloween ghost cake
I had promised to make three Halloween treats for Tugga this year. The Halloween Witch Fingers are done. They were a superhit with him and his friends, a...
Halloween Witch Finger Cookies- Halloween couldn’t get creepier
Do you remember when exactly Halloween started becoming popular in India? I thought about it and thought hard but couldn't quite recall. My first adult...