by Madhushree Basu Roy | May 21, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
Bengalis and their macher jhol — it’s an undying love. From the mighty ilish to the small mourala, we cook fish in a hundred different ways. But when it comes to everyday comfort, a simple rui macher jhol with rice is hard to beat. It’s light, satisfying, and carries...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | May 2, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
There’s something about a Kal Baisakhi (norwesters) evening that calls for muri and chop. The lights flicker once. A gust of wind slams the window shut. The smell of dust and wet earth hits your nose before the first drop of rain lands. You don’t need a clock to know...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Oct 30, 2023 | Food, Foodblog |
Bengali cuisine is not just varied but there are hundreds of nomenclatures for every kind of food. For us, it’s not a curry for everything or a bhaji for everything. From chorchori to dalna to jhol, to jhal, there are different names given to different foods,...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jan 19, 2023 | Food, Foodblog |
Rosh bora is a dessert that can be made any time of the year but for some reason, we only remember it during the Sankranti season. Different kinds of pithe-puli can be very daunting and at times, something as simple as a roshbora can be mentally satisfying. Poush...
by Anindya | Jan 9, 2023 | Food, Foodblog |
How many of you feel incomplete if you havent had churmur after a nice rendezvous with Phuchka. At least for me no amount of Phuchka can satiate my hunger for it yet I stop after some time. I stop but I dont retire. I aim for the churmur. There is a sequence in...
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