Shada fulkopir torkari / dudh fulkopi

Shada fulkopir torkari / dudh fulkopi

by | Feb 16, 2018 | Food, Foodblog | 0 comments

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

by | Jan 25, 2018 | Food, Foodblog | 0 comments

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...
Sobji Pitha, Sankranti and Lohri memories

Sobji Pitha, Sankranti and Lohri memories

by | Jan 15, 2018 | Food, Foodblog | 0 comments

I have never been a dessert fan while growing up. Pithe and Puli was definitely not something that I would crave. My neighbourhood in Bandel and as well as in Chandannagore, had many families and Bangal families (the ones having their roots in erstwhile Bangladesh),...
Mutton Nihari for winters

Mutton Nihari for winters

by | Dec 11, 2017 | Food, Foodblog | 0 comments

This is one of the strangest winters possible in Kolkata. First, there was a steep fall in temperature somewhere in the second week of November. Then again, the mercury soared and untimely rainfall for the last few days. As someone said, it’s a deliberation to...