by Madhushree Basu Roy | Nov 17, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
Who doesn’t love beet bhaja? It’s beetroot stir-fried. We Bengalis do, especially in winter, when the produce arrives fresh and deep red. Like the potato, beetroot was a foreign import but slowly became a local favourite. Beet bhaja is one of those pure...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Oct 21, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
Cooking has been my love for the longest time. From college, I have experimented in the kitchen and jotted down recipes from TV shows (back in the day of Khana Khazana and when there wasn’t YouTube with a plethora of recipes). I still have those precious diaries...
by Anindya | Oct 20, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
Tomato Chop – the first interface My hometown Chandannagore is famous for many reasons and one of them is definitely for Mishti. Jolbhora is definitely the showstopper and there are other sweet shops also. One of the least spoken about aspect of food in...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Oct 17, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
Wrapping fish in leaves and then cooking on open fire or steaming is an old Bengali tradition. Paturi essentially means, something that is cooked in a leaf parcel. It could be banana leaf, it could be any other leaf. While bhekti paturi or ilish paturi, that is...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Oct 9, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
My earliest memory of paneer dalna is from Canning. It was Lokkhi Pujo, and Dida had made her special khichuri bhog. Her khichuri was more like a pulao with vegetables and toasted moong dal. There was labra, several kinds of bhajas, and a light but intensely...
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