Dahi Bhalla the perfect holi snack

Dahi Bhalla the perfect holi snack

Is there any food that can be related to Bengali dol? Dol? The Bong brother of National Holi  In my opinion Kochi pathar jhol or mangshor jhol and sweets and that too not any special sweets. In our childhood we used to get Motth, tough crystallised sugar in different...
Butter Garlic squids over tennis practice

Butter Garlic squids over tennis practice

Ajay and I normally discuss about racket grips, power and accuracy of serves, forehand power, backhand slice and court coverage. Ajay is my tennis partner. Both at the same stage of the game, which is migrating from intermediate level to serious one. Ajay knows I am a...
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...
Sobji Pitha, Sankranti and Lohri memories

Sobji Pitha, Sankranti and Lohri memories

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),...