by Madhushree Basu Roy | May 22, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
It’s simply too hot. The fan spins all day, but the appetite disappears. In Kolkata, summers can be relentless. And on days like these, the only thing that works is a light, home-cooked lunch. In most Bengali homes, that means soft mashed kumro bhate, a bitter uchhe...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Feb 4, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
It was a picnic at Canning at my grandparent’s place. It was on a cold, wintery day towards the end of last year. The air carried the scent of damp earth and fresh greens. We wanted to make food that takes on an almost elemental quality—simple, rustic, yet...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Feb 11, 2020 | Food, Foodblog, Uncategorized |
There is no such thing called a phulkopir cutlet, said Anindya. We have heard of phulkopir shingara, phulkopir bora, but never heard of phulkopir cutlet. I was making the menu for weekend takeaways from home. It was only the second weekend and I had been focusing on...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jul 13, 2019 | Food, Foodblog |
Ghoti’s love their ambols. Most ghotis I know of, have some kind of ambol everyday, at least my family does. While growing up, I only knew of ‘chutney’ and it was only after marriage, that even ‘kancha aamer jhol’ became ‘kancha...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Apr 8, 2019 | Food, Foodblog |
Before I got married and was living with my mother, every summer I would have to have bael panna or bael sherbat a few times. I remember vividly, my mother squeezing the pulp in a big strainer to discard the seeds. It was one of the mid morning activities and then she...
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