Chicken salad with leftover kebabs. Looking back at Poila Boishakh
What is the tradition of Poila Boishakh or Bengali New year? Other than a few that I remember from my childhood, the pertinent question that needs to be asked...
Fruit custard recipe and my love and hatred for fruits
I hate fruits. It is a family folklore how much I hated bananas while I was growing up and that formed one of the basis of the first food blog post of this...
Jan Bakers Srinagar Kashmir and the baking tradition of the valley
We met Humayun Jaan at Jan Bakers in very casual and unassuming way, while he was trying to fix some plumbing issues of the store. Kashmir was our first tour...
Fruit cookies easy peasy cookie squeezy
Easy peasy lemon squeezy ... The little one (now not that little as he turned 5 recently) has been saying this repeatedly for the last one month. He has...
Social Kitchen Holiday Inn Kolkata
`The recent advent of branded big hotels into the city is only an indication of the growing business; even though to the lay man, it is almost invisible....
Little Venice in Mykonos Island Greece
Do you fall in love with all the places that you travel to? Do you feel like not coming back from a place? I guess that happens every time when you visit a...
Basanti Pulao origin and the recipe
It is that time of the year when all that comprises actual and pseudo bangaliana will start overflowing in various forms. Social media update, dressing in...
7UP Revive for me in Kolkata
Winters have disappeared from Kolkata! It’s now going to be a long stretch of summer with various degrees of humidity along with sweating, which makes the...
Best Kosha Mangsho in Kolkata as I have experienced
Let’s say you are planning to start a Bengali restaurant What are the things that come to your mind when you start planning the menu? Shukto (quintessentially...
Cranberry chutney with Panchphoron
A little prelude Once upon a time, when we were young, we used to meet with friends for Saturday night hangouts at our place. Tugga was a little baby. Hence,...