by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jul 13, 2020 | Food, Foodblog |
Simple is always elegant, sometimes stunning. So is this recipe of doodh potol. Parwal or pointed gourd is cooked in milk and the resulting is a creamy light sauce with incredible flavour. When we talk about Bengali food nationally, we tend to ignore the vegetables....
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jun 11, 2020 | Food, Foodblog |
I was recently clearing up media files on my phone and came across hundreds (I mean it) of wedding pictures with food and rituals. My cousin brother and Anindya’s cousin sister, both got married in February, though not to each other. The food pictures, albeit...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jun 8, 2020 | Food, Foodblog |
Food always has some kind of emotional connect. Therefore, everything we eat, reminds us of some memory or some thing from the past. It could be the taste of the food or the smell, or the way it was served. It could be just about anything and it always takes you back...
by Anindya | May 22, 2020 | Food, Foodblog |
Aam Pora Shorbot was not the first one I had. Growing up, there was chinir shorbot, a simple sugar syrup based sherbet with black salt. Summers also meant Kissan or Druk squash. The process of making that was very simple. Add two or three spoons in water and add some...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | May 12, 2020 | Food, Foodblog |
There are spice mixes and then there are the great ones. Bhaja Masala is one such magical ingredient in Bengali cuisine. We don’t call it masala definitely. It is bhaja moshla for us. It’s strange, how this one ingredient is part of every Bengali kitchen....