by Madhushree Basu Roy | Sep 10, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
Chal’er payesh is the OG of all Bengali desserts, but when you want a failsafe, quick dessert, chhana’r payesh is the winner. Chhana or chhena (that’s how it is known in the rest of India) is basically fresh cheese made from curdled milk. This cheese...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jan 4, 2023 | Food, Foodblog |
How about a bowl of sweetness to kick off the new year in 2023? Winter is the time to indulge in sweets made with nolen gur. We call it khejur’er gur since it is made with the sap of date palm and it is available only during winter. This gur has an exquisite...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Nov 4, 2018 | Food, Foodblog |
As I sit and reminisce about the last year, I realise that how much small things, events or incidents in life give you so much happiness and a sense of satisfaction. There are the big life events, like having a baby or accepting a huge award for something or many...
by Anindya | Jun 27, 2017 | Uncategorized |
Is ice cream seasonal? I would say yes and no. Ice cream is strongly connected with Summer. It is like a magic pill where you have one and all issues related to the heat will be taken care of. Since childhood, I have grown up observing friends, family members and...
by Anindya | May 4, 2017 | Food, Foodblog |
I hate fruits. It is a family folklore how much I hated bananas while I was growing up and that formed one of the basis of the first food blog post of this blog. (The pictures are amateurish but we keep it as a proof from where we had started and it is passion and...
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