Here are a series of Salad recipes that I have been developing. These are very easy but decadent salads and are perfect as a side or your main meal. Ham and Olive Salad This one is quite a decadent salad filled with meat, cheese and gorgeous veggies. Extremely simple to assemble and definitely a perfect…
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From food blogging to Calcutta Street – the journey
Hi everyone! I am so sorry for spending so much time away from my lovely blog that has got me where I am today. I promise to be a regular again (and I mean it this time!). The reason I’ve been so quiet is because I’ve been busy working towards the launch of my restaurant Calcutta…
Calcutta Street Summer Party – Pelt Trader
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” – I agree with Henry James and what is even better is Saturday Summer Afternoon! We are celebrating 6 months of Calcutta Street with a Summer Party – 1st August, Saturday 12pm – 4 pm at Pelt Trader…
Calcutta Street in The Telegraph – An emotional press coverage
Press coverages are always special but some of them are a tad bit more special than the rest. Couple of weeks back The Telegraph in India featured a story on Calcutta Street, yes it’s a regular press story but it meant a lot more because of more reasons than one – this is a newspaper that…
Calcutta Street Food Pop Up (Camden)
After a month of running around, stress, promotions and a LOT of cooking finally my first Pop Up was launched at Zensai bar in Camden. I am overjoyed by the response as it was my first pop up and I wasn’t exactly expecting a lot of people to turn up, but to my surprise (an…
Calcutta Street – My first Pop Up restaurant
Hello everyone! After 4 years of blogging, cooking, food reviewing and eating, I have decided to start my own food Pop Up – Calcutta Street – An East Indian Street Food experience. I am cooking along with Asia House resident chef Paul Bloomfield and we are planning to cook up a storm in the kitchen….
Chicken Stew – Perfect healthy, lazy meal
So, here is a video after a long time, so I decided to make something very simple and healthy. This is a chicken stew with lots of veggies and some spices to make it a little more interesting and less bland. Recipe: Marinade the chicken with ginger, garlic, salt and turmeric while you chop your…
Lamb Curry & Polaw Rice
When people ask me what is my favorite dish of ALL times, I can’t help but say Lamb curry but having said that I am very fussy about the lamb curry I like. This is the one that I was used to having since childhood and never got bored of it, rather appreciated even more…
Palak Paneer
http://vimeo.com/57079364 This is a video of me cooking one of my favorite dish Palak Paneer that I made with my friend Daniel as an experiment! The recipe is already there in my previous post! 🙂 Hope you like it and let me know your thoughts! Always open to suggestions!
Lamb Biriyani (Calcutta style)
Biriyani was a dish originated in Iran and travelled to the Indian subcontinent with the Iranian travellers. In India we have several variants of biriyanis. I grew up in Kolkata (Original Capital of India by the British) and the Calcutta Biriyani in the list of famous Biriyanis and is definitely my favourite one, this style biryani…
Shrimoyee's Scrapbook 