by Madhushree Basu Roy | Feb 7, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
What’s in a name? I grew up calling crab curry kakrar jhol. But Google’s SEO favours Kakrar Jhal. Either way, every home makes this dish differently. It’s a rich and spicy crab curry made with small mud crabs. Some people use mustard paste to finish...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Feb 4, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
It was a picnic at Canning at my grandparent’s place. It was on a cold, wintery day towards the end of last year. The air carried the scent of damp earth and fresh greens. We wanted to make food that takes on an almost elemental quality—simple, rustic, yet...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jan 30, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
If food had to look ugly, it’s gota sheddho. Ok, please don’t hate me!! I am a Bangal, and growing up in Port Blair, I was never exposed to this Ghoti tradition of having gota sheddho the day after Saraswati pujo. For the uninitiated, Bangal means people...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jan 25, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
Topa kul—you can call it the forbidden fruit, or at least till Saraswati Puja. It’s fascinating to see how the season changes, and it reflects, first on our skin and then in the vegetable market. Topa kul is the Indian jujube fruit, and it is one of those...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jan 9, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
Chushi Pitha, also called Choshi Pitha or Choshir Payesh, is a quintessential Bengali dessert. This is typically made during Makar Sankranti. It is an exotic dish that features choshi, tiny hand-rolled bits of dough, cooked in thickened milk sweetened with the deeply...
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