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INDIAN HIMALAYAS: May 2009
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Sunday, May 31, 2009. Nanda Devi twin peaks are the most sacred peaks in whole of Kumaon and Garhwal region of India. She is worshipped all over the place. It is not visible fully from most of the places. Because it is surrounded by high ridges running to a height of 20,000 feet and the ridge is dotted with 24000 feet peaks. I am not a mountaineer and no longer a trekker. I only travel where my car can go and a little trek around the tourist lodge is enough for me. For the last so many years, my routes i...
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INDIAN HIMALAYAS: SHERAGHAT ON SARAJU RIVER ( Like Frankfurt am Meins)
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010. SHERAGHAT ON SARAJU RIVER ( Like Frankfurt am Meins). I am posting here few photos and marked the locations of the photos on it. You can see the Saraju river flowing down. A tributary joins on the left. The road from Almora comes from the right bank, crosses the bridge and goes to Berinag. The tributary has a foot bridge. ( Please read the note on the map below.). The upstream of the river as seen from the bridge. This is one of the rare trips, we ( we 2 brothers) , had all...
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COOKING AND RECIPES: Story of "Chitol Machh er Gada" and the beautiful lady at CR Park fish market
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From Ushnish Ghosh, food recipes and travelogues. Monday, September 21, 2009. Story of "Chitol Machh er Gada" and the beautiful lady at CR Park fish market. The title of the article may seem bit strange. You may directly go to the Ingredient chapter below and ignore the Preamble. One evening in the autumn of 1986 ( not summer of 42), I landed up at CR Park ( Delhi) fish market and I was delighted to see a long Gada piece of Chitol machh (as usual, the peti portion was sold out by then). I narrated the re...
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COOKING AND RECIPES: CHAL KUMRO (ASH GOURD) GHANTA , WITH COCONUT AND BORI
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From Ushnish Ghosh, food recipes and travelogues. Sunday, August 31, 2014. CHAL KUMRO (ASH GOURD) GHANTA , WITH COCONUT AND BORI. CHAL KUMRO (ASH GOURD) GHANTA , WITH COCONUT AND BORI. This is a pure vege dish, devoid of onion and garlic. Well was trying to reproduce a childhood memory of this down market poor man’s. Don’t remember what my mother used to do , but whatever I could recollect, putting it here . It is awesome. Chal Kumro , skinned and chopped fine random ( 1/4. Grated coconut ½ to 3/4. 8216;...
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COOKING AND RECIPES: CHICKEN 65
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From Ushnish Ghosh, food recipes and travelogues. Wednesday, October 21, 2009. Not again Chicken 65.everywhere it is Chicken 65.I am tired of the name. But I am not , I love this dish. Basically it is a boneless chicken dish colored red, with a high spicy note of fried garlic, ginger, Curry Leaves and quite hot (Chili), slightly tangy due to a tangy sauce and lemon juice added at the end. Ginger garlic paste 1 tsp heap. Freshly ground Pepper 1/2 tsp ( or more). Yogurt 2 tsp level. Corn flower 2 tsp heap.
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COOKING AND RECIPES: PANI SANTULA ( an awesome dish from Odisha)
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From Ushnish Ghosh, food recipes and travelogues. Wednesday, January 30, 2013. PANI SANTULA ( an awesome dish from Odisha). During my recent visit to Odisha, I had decided to eat only Odiya food and this dish Pani Santula was top of the list. Of course I often make this here based on recipes from my blog friends (reference given below) , Both of them are very good in Odiya recipes and I often cook their dishes. Any vegetable can be used. in Varied quantity. Here I have used. Potato 1 cut to 3/4th inch.
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COOKING AND RECIPES: FRESH LOITA FISH JHURI BHAJA (Fresh Bombay duck, Bombil, Bumla, Bummili dish))
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From Ushnish Ghosh, food recipes and travelogues. Friday, April 1, 2011. FRESH LOITA FISH JHURI BHAJA (Fresh Bombay duck, Bombil, Bumla, Bummili dish). I am back here partially after a long gap. Of course will be back with full force by the end of the month. I am presenting this recipe for my non-vege friends and there is no vege version for this. I learnt this traditional fish recipe only few months back. This recipe doesn't use any aromatic spices but only few ingredients like onion, garlic and red chi...
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COOKING AND RECIPES: OL KOPI (Nool Kol, Ganth Gobi, Kadam, Kohlrabi) WITH GREEN and PANEER (PUNJABI & KASHMIRI)
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From Ushnish Ghosh, food recipes and travelogues. Wednesday, December 8, 2010. OL KOPI (Nool Kol, Ganth Gobi, Kadam, Kohlrabi) WITH GREEN and PANEER (PUNJABI and KASHMIRI). I developed a fish and non vege phobia for few days, after eating so much in Bangalore marriage and Kerala trip. It was fish and more fish every where, with lot of spices and chilis, divine! There is not much of preambles, so lets get down to business. NOTE: These 2 dishes are pure vegetarian without onion and garlic. Dry red chili 2.
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