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...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Nov 19, 2021 | Food, Foodblog |
Like I had written in my previous post on pui shaaker chorchori, Bengali recipe names are often based on their cooking techniques. And some of the names are quite funny too. Bandhakopir ghonto is one such funny name. I mean, why ‘ghonto’? I have always...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jun 29, 2020 | Food, Foodblog |
I grew up by the sea and indulged on the wonderful seafood that one could dream of. Port Blair offered an abundance of seafood at a throwaway price in the 80s and 90s. We used to have lobsters and giant sized crabs for a Sunday lunch. By giant sized, they were between...
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...
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