by Madhushree Basu Roy | May 30, 2020 | Food, Foodblog |
Every region has it’s own potato curry. And each one is distinctly different from the other. Just in Bengali cuisine, we have alur dom, alur bati chorchori, alur dom made without onions and garlic, doi alu and much more. Bedmi poori is a very popular North...
by Anindya | May 28, 2020 | Food, Foodblog |
I don’t know why but since childhood I didn’t like eating fruits. Baba always used to get seasonal fruits. He loved mangoes and was a great connoisseur of mangoes. The names himsagar, fojli, lyangra, totatapuri used to become household names in summers....
by Madhushree Basu Roy | May 26, 2020 | Food, Foodblog |
Were you aware of gluten intolerance a few years back? A decade back, no one thought twice about eating anything made of all purpose flour. I think maida runs in our DNA. we have grown up eating maida, especially Bengalis, who love their luchis and porota, all made in...
by Anindya | May 22, 2020 | Food, Foodblog |
Aam Pora Shorbot was not the first one I had. Growing up, there was chinir shorbot, a simple sugar syrup based sherbet with black salt. Summers also meant Kissan or Druk squash. The process of making that was very simple. Add two or three spoons in water and add some...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | May 15, 2020 | Food, Foodblog |
Prawns are literally sacred for us. I grew up by the sea and lived on seafood every single day till I left Port Blair. So prawns, lobsters and crabs were easily accessible and Ma loved cooking with them. During summer holidays, we would spend our time at Canning,...
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