by Madhushree Basu Roy | Dec 12, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
When you are always on the lookout for interesting recipes, you end up buying cookbooks. It’s been a thing for me since my college days. I still remember my first food book – Madhur Jaffrey’s A Taste of India. Soon after, I bought Sanjeev Kapoor’s...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Nov 29, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
Some recipes are for special occasions, while others are for everyday meals. Pabda machh’er jhal fits in well with both worlds. You can make it for a Sunday lunch, while it can take a grand place in your wedding menu too. It’s light on spices, strong on...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Nov 26, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
We share recipes almost every day on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. Recently, we added a new channel to the mix- Bong Recipe Tales, a shorts-only YouTube channel, purely in Bangla. It gives us space to share a different perspective from what we usually do on...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Oct 17, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
Wrapping fish in leaves and then cooking on open fire or steaming is an old Bengali tradition. Paturi essentially means, something that is cooked in a leaf parcel. It could be banana leaf, it could be any other leaf. While bhekti paturi or ilish paturi, that is...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Sep 29, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
Kolkata Style Chowmein tastes like memory. In our Pandel’er Pet Pujo series, we’ve walked from phuchka to chicken roll, phuchkawala alur dom, chow chow, and fish fry. Today it’s egg chowmein, the plate you’d grab on the way home, the one that made a long day better....
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