Mutton Rogan Josh Kashmiri Pandit style one more dish in my repertoire
It's not necessary food always need to tickle the sweet memory spots. I cooked mutton Rogan Josh after almost 8 years. The last time I made this, I was 10 kg...
Stuffed Dates and my childhood summers
When I was a kid, 'phoren' meant a huge deal for me, escpeaily since I grew up in Port Blair, cut off from the 'mainland' in every which way. Yes, we did call...
An evening out at Syanachatti on our way to Yamunotri
Syanachatti forms an important juncture for moving ahead towards Yamunotri and most of the times people halt here and go to Yamunotri. We reached here after a...
Panta Bhat – the Budhha bowl which cools you in Summer
Blame it on my Ghoti upbringing. My ancestral home was in Bardhaman, my mother had her roots in Bankura. More than a feeling of apartheid towards the people...
Echorer achar – Green Jackfruit pickle and the Mix n Match at my dinner table
When I used to work at Shoppers Stop Kolkata as the Unit Head HR, I had to take rounds across the store more than often to do several manpower audits. There...
Kayasth Khatirdari – Kayasth food by Anoothi Vishal and a memorable evening
Shami kebab and Chota peg, that was what most of the evenings used to be for Kayasths - Well known Food writer and one of the faces behind popularising...
The first ever Bloggers Bus to Uttarakhand – what a journey it was
I believe in serendipity and destiny in many ways. I use these words also too often, much to the irritation of people close to me. While destiny may have a...
Dimer Dalna is a secure love affair
From meeting the opposite sex to starting to like him/her, to marinating the relationship with meetings and getting to know each other, to finally proposing...
Shim Shim – Finally a Himalayan Beef Cafe in Kolkata
Where did we meet Doma di first? Anindya asked me and I wondered if age is catching up with him while struggling between managing his growing children and...
Kacha Aamer Ambol – the summer essential
I was in my hometown Chandannagore 10 days back and went to my mamar bari (house of my maternal grandparents). It was almost 4 or 5 months since I had been...
