We launched high quality chicken and mutton (goat meat) just over 2 weeks ago. And just last Sunday our first few Heat & Eat chicken and mutton dishes were rolled out. A few more will be added over the span of this week. It’s taken us a while to introduce these products, I mean we started with just fish and all kinds of seafood a fair amount of time ago right? We just wanted to be sure that the quality of chicken and mutton we offered met the same high…
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Cracking the Code: Your Guide to Cooking with Octopus
Deep Down Inside (the sea) Octopus is as common as prawns and fish along the coast. I can’t really remember the first time I ate octopus; it was definitely not in my growing years—we stuck to freshly caught river fish, since salt-water fish was almost impossible to procure in our nook of the hinterland. Adulthood ushered in experimenting with newer foods, which was further supported by the move to a bigger city with more food-crazy people to make friends with and eateries that welcomed patrons looking for new experiences. Honest…
Read MoreThe Fun (and Ease) of 5
Now that the festivities are over (only temporarily, of course) it’s time to get back to humdrum routine of the daily grind. You know what they say about taking a vacation to cope with the after-effects of a vacation? That is definitely needed after the stressful holiday season—stressful, since cleaning, shopping, cooking, entertaining, gifting, celebrating with your dearest ones is never the easiest job in the world. What is, however, easy-peasy is cooking each of these 12 seafood recipes compiled for your gastronomical pleasure. When we say easy cooking, we…
Read MoreSo Maach Love
“O, to be Bangali, now that Pujo is nigh, Khabar, Kapod, Kalchar is on its annual high O, to be Bangali, now that Pujo is nigh, Stop me from pandal hopping? Don’t even try.” Pujo or Durga Pooja, as known in the rest of the country, is the high point of every proud, passionate Bengali’s life. It’s what Diwali is like in the other states, save for the communal fervency amid myriad colours, similar to Navratri in Gujarat that is unsurprisingly celebrated around the same time. However, while Navratri across…
Read MoreThe Twain Do Meet: 10 Delish Fusion Seafood Recipes
We live in the times of chicken tikka pizza and curry noodles, Parle-G cheesecake and Baileys gulab jamun, khichdi arancini and masala risotto. The most ‘foreign’ flavours, right from cheese and mayonnaise, ketchup and soy sauce, and especially chocolate have permeated our culinary DNA so deep, cheese pav bhaji and chocolate burfi are now mainstream menu items. Fusion food has been around for several centuries, and the simplest everyday example is that of the samosa. The samosa was introduced to India in the 13th or 14th century from the Middle…
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