My Sweet teeth story…. and how my handmade dark chocolate truffles satisfied them!I have a whole set of sweet teeth rather than a single sweet tooth. Any body who has grown up in a Bengali household will be familiar with that feeling of incompleteness without a sweet ending to any meal. Be it the cottony […]
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Mocha Cupcakes
Mocha CupcakesI was never a very big coffee fan. Tea was my thing. But then I came to taste specialty blend coffees one day at a small cafe near our place in Kolkata. Mind you its not your everyday instant coffee. Rather it is the freshly ground and filtered from exotic beans variety that made […]
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What will we have for breakfast?
What will we have for breakfast? That is one mandatory question we ask each other after waking up after exchanging the good morning pleasantries. When oats, muesli, bread, roti, poha gets boring then appe comes to the rescue. I have come to this ripe old age without eating appes my entire life but now it […]
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Cake for the soul
A slice of cake for the soul with the evening cup of tea/ coffee for the mind is a match made in heaven. Our coffee dates were very frequent in the pre-apocalyptic world when things were “normal”! A particularly trying day at the office often ended with one of us suggesting a cuppa at any […]
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Solace from Croquettes…
Humans are currently witnessing history in the making. Before this no one amongst us has witnessed a pandemic, only read or heard about one. This is a very stressful time for all of us. All of us are trying to find some solace in any way possible. Solace Food has always been a source of […]
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March Lily showed us that Patience pays….
Prelude This story goes back to October 2018 when we had visited Sikkim. After an adventurous and mesmerizing trip to North Sikkim (Lachen, Gurudongmar lake, Lachung, Yumthang, Zero point), we came back to Gangtok and stayed there for a couple of days to unwind all the adrenaline rush. During that time, we mainly visited the […]
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Jhansi and Sesame street
Recently I had the opportunity to visit the quaint historic city of Jhansi. Jhansi is famous for the brave queen Rani Laxmi Bai. From the first time when I read about her in the history books to last year when I saw the movie Manikarnika,I have always felt like I have to visit Jhansi at […]
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Clean Eating
Clean eating is the first step towards a healthier lifestyle. To say that is not always easy to be focussed on eathing healthy food is actually a huge understatement! Working throughout the day, being super busy, multi tasking, home management, all of it takes quite a toll on the healthy eating part. When I am […]
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Beetroot Raita
I love yoghurt and curd in any form. I try to include at least one helping of curd in one of my meals. It is during this quest of mine that I came across a lovely beetroot raita recipe.If not curd I definitely have buttermilk which is a great source of probiotics. I first came […]
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When Life gives you Lemons
Life and lemons There is a very famous saying that when life gives you lemons, you should go make lemonade with them.This is a method of trying to stay positive even when things in life are not going as planned (which it seldom does!) So the best bet is to take the situation in hand […]
