Kacha Aamer Ambol – the summer essential

Kacha Aamer Ambol – the summer essential

I was in my hometown Chandannagore 10 days back and went to my mamar bari (house of my maternal grandparents). It was almost 4 or 5 months since I had been there. Once again, first nostalgia overtook my senses while remembering a part of my childhood back there and...
Shada fulkopir torkari / dudh fulkopi

Shada fulkopir torkari / dudh fulkopi

Winter is the time for this mandatory dish in our house every year for almost all possible occasions. The phulkopir roast. The recipe was uploaded in the blog a longtime back. Yet it’s perhaps the most searched recipe on the blog. This year also, Madhushree made...
Macher muro diye dal. Daal with fish head

Macher muro diye dal. Daal with fish head

Is Dal the most overlooked and undermined player in the team of food on our dining table? Most often, like a Goal keeper in football or the wicket keeper in cricket, Indian meal is incomplete without dal. Yet it never becomes a centre of attraction for Bengali’s...
Bohemian, Chef Joymalya Banerjee and Lamhe

Bohemian, Chef Joymalya Banerjee and Lamhe

Have you heard about Lamhe the film? Released in 1991 and considered as one of the masterpieces of Yash Chopra, Lamhe was a commercially unsuccessful. Layers of relationship and a love story which spanned between mother and daughter both played Sridevi and a young...