by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jan 4, 2023 | Food, Foodblog |
How about a bowl of sweetness to kick off the new year in 2023? Winter is the time to indulge in sweets made with nolen gur. We call it khejur’er gur since it is made with the sap of date palm and it is available only during winter. This gur has an exquisite...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jun 5, 2022 | Food, Foodblog |
There are a million different ways to make catfish or Tangra mach in Bengal. Every home makes it differently and has a different name as well. Yesterday I made Tangra macher jhol for the legendary celebrity chef Sanjeev Kapoor when he came home for lunch. It was part...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | May 5, 2022 | Food, Foodblog |
There are a few recipes that are very popular on social media and every year, like clockwork, they do the rounds in the season. Aam shol is one such recipe. Shol maach, also spelt as sole mach is a snakehead Murrel. When it is cooked with season’s fresh green...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jan 29, 2022 | Food, Foodblog |
It is a known fact that Bengalis cannot do without their mustard paste. Although, contrary to popular notion, there are many Bongs who do not prefer mustard. Well, all that aside, no celebratory meal is complete with a shorshe or mustard-based curry. Fish wrapped in...
by Anindya | Jan 24, 2022 | Food, Foodblog |
Most often, we tend to search for the best outside the daily normal? In the process, we tend to forget the beauty in the simplest things around us. It needs a trigger (can be from anyone, anywhere) and then there is no looking back. Ask me to cite one reason –...
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