#LockdownCooking
As we isolate in our homes during this unprecedented global pandemic, food — and cooking — remains an eternal source of hope, joy and healing. Lockdown Cooking is our humble contribution to this cause. Please join us in cooking from the heart using what’s available at home.
Weekend market Thimphu – a stroll and some pictures
Are you one of those who loves going to a market? Are you one of those travellers who always wants to have a look around the local market to get a sense of...
Bengali Murgir Dum / Bengali Slow cooked chicken curry
I was slightly confused on how to translate Dum to English as this is all about Bengali Murgir Dum or Bengali style slow cooked chicken curry. I referred to...
Best Pan Asian brunches in Kolkata
A Sunday brunch is always exciting. Taking your time through a maze of food spread in front of you, slowly enjoying your beverage and food over a long period...
Farmer’s Frittata- Easy and Wholesome Breakfast
What is you favourite breakfast? Mine is always eggs. Eggs in any form would do for me. That does not mean I eat a boiled egg or an omelette everyday. I have...
Things to try out at Grill by the poolside at Taj Bengal Kolkata
I recently wrote about climate change and one of the tell tale sign is global warming. November is about to end and one still needs to switch on fan and to an...
A visit to Jungshi paper factory Thimpu Bhutan
On the last day of my Bhutan trip, courtesy Taj Tashi Thimpu Bhutan, we stepped out for a visit to a few local places. The first stop was at the Jungshi Paper...
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...
Doi Begun from Taste of Eastern India – Congratulations Kankana
Why we selected to make Doi Begun There would rarely be a blogger who would not like to release a book someday. In this digital age, the thrill of seeing...
Post cards from Hong Kong by a travel blogger from India
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Between September and October few publications happened for me both digitally and in print and this was the first of the lot. I...
Elements of nature in Durga Puja – A photostory
Follow my blog with Bloglovin How is Spain, Italy, Belgium, Rio and Kolkata connected ? There can be many but the most exciting part to look at it is their...
Wasabi by Morimoto Pop up at Taj Bengal
14 years ago, The Taj group was looking for a Japanese Restaurant brand to open at The Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai, after several failed negotiation with Nobu,...
Double Chocolate Mousse Cake- a Dinner Party Hit
A few more days to go and it is Durga Puja. The social media timeline will be flooded with Bengali food, Bengali brunch, Bengali recipes and everything...
How to cook Ema Datshi – The national dish of Bhutan
When in Bhutan, you have to eat Ema Datshi. It is afterall, their national dish. When my Bhutan tour was fixed, courtesy Taj Tashi, everyone suggested I have...
Taj Tashi Thimpu Bhutan the brightest jewel in Thimpu
It was a 50 minute flight from Kolkata to Paro and by the time fasten your seatbelts signs were on the soft drinks served in the flight were yet to finish....
Nepali Chicken Sadeko or Chicken Salad Nepali Style
Sadeko beginning It was a long time ago but I remember every moment of this journey in my heart. Sometimes I can even feel the happiness that I felt, as I...
Sonar tori City Centre 1 Kolkata- Dine like the Zamindars of Bengal
The city today has many takers for Bengali cuisine but despite a mushrooming of Bengali restaurants, few have made it to the top notch category. Whenever we...
Chig Ja gye restaurant at Taj Tashi, tasting Ema Datshi and the significance of 108
One dinner was planned at Chig ja gye restaurant in Taj Tashi and it happened on the third day of our visit. With much elan, I wore a GHO - the national dress...
Kankroler pur bhaja/ stuffed teasel gourd and rendezvous with my mother in law
A few days back on a rainy afternoon, I was looking out of the window and my mind suddenly wandered back to the time when I had first met Anindya. We were...
মাধবী মুখার্জি , রঞ্জন বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় এবং ইলিশ ।
রাজ যোটক শুনেছি , মণিকাঞ্চন যোগ শুনেছি কিন্ত মাধবি মুখার্জি , রঞ্জন বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় এবং ইলিশ ? এটা কে কি বলা যায় ? ...
Bengal Rajbari Ilish at ITC Sonar Kolkata
As I wrote on my Doi Ilish recipe post, a dish remains a silent witness to changing generations, different kitchens in different places and how with...
My Garhwali food Sojourn in Uttarakhand for 4 days
I had no expectations in terms of my food explorations in Uttarakhand as I was more interested in exploring the natural beauty and the beauty named as...
The Parking Lot Kolkata – Get yourself comfortably parked for an amazing time
This is a pretty new concept for Kolkata and time will tell, how much it will be accepted but this is a concept which I will like to encash on as much as...
How to make flavoured Greek yogurt at home
It is simple. I always wondered, for a country which has been living on 'dahi' forever, why they were so floored by the whole 'Greek yogurt' revolutiion...
Everyday Brownies – Nigella Lawson way
Everyday Brownies by Nigella Lawson - What are everyday brownies and how are they different from chocolate brownies? Madhushree had the answers ready. There...
Narendra Bhawan Bikaner – I searched for synonyms of opulence
What are the synonyms for Opulence? This is the thought which hovered around in my head as I spent 2 days in Narendra Bhawan Bikaner. Reaching there There are...
Chef Praveen Anand, ITC Sonar Kolkata and an insight into South Indian food
Chemistry was a terrifying subject for me. Like all Bongo shontans (decent Bengali boys), growing up in 90's meant taking up science in Senior Secondary and...
Ilish Begun Jhol / Ilish and eggplant curry bengali style
Lets make a list of top 5 which will definitely have1 of your choice Ilish machh bhaja- Ilish fried in mustard oil and definitely needs to be consumed...
Will you try our Doi Ilish at Taj Bengal Kolkata this season ?
I think Delhi-ites know how to party but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. Kolkata's former adopted boy (almost) Gautam Gambhir...
Yamunotri trek and the life lessons reinforced
Velocity = Distance /Time. This is one of the first basic theory/ formula that one learns in physics and as one graduates, one acquires knowledge on...
Kolkata style Aloor Chop with a twist / Mashed potato fritters with prawn
Noted food writer and critic, Vir Sanghvi in his recent article has written that if he ever opened a restaurant based on Aloo or Potato dishes only, it will...
The Blue Poppy Thakali – Some Nepali food which will sing to your heart.
When Shim shim happened - Doma di mentioned something big is coming up and that too at Middleton street where The Blue Poppy is already there. We discovered...
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