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 | Oct 27, 2023 | Food, Foodblog |
I say superstar or should it be the show-stopper? A typical bijoya platter would consist of kucho nimki, narkel naru, some sondesh and of course ghugni. But then, every once in a while, the humble ghugni is amped up with mutton keema and it becomes mangsher ghugni....
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Aug 29, 2023 | Food, Foodblog |
This is the season for Taal, also known as a sugar palm. Not many communities in our country consume this or even know about it. It’s a delicacy in Bengal during late monsoon and just before Janmashtami. And a whole lot of food is made using this unique fruit....
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Aug 11, 2023 | Food, Foodblog |
It was a balmy summer day. The kids had just returned from school. It was one of those days when all you wanted to do was get lazy, switch on the ac and binge on OTT. Once Brishti is back home, she spends half an hour trying to tell us all about her school. Between...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Aug 3, 2023 | Food, Foodblog |
Arbi- is one of the most commonly found vegetables across the country. Almost all communities have some way of eating this and it has many names too. We call it gathi kochu or gati kochu in Bengali. I have heard some people say gutke kochu. And then there is arbi or...