Shubho Bijoya
The time of the year when I miss all the mishti and the homemade radhaballavi and narkol chhapa. Sigh. Maybe next year :)
Thursday, October 13, 2005
I would much rather be curled up somewhere, reading a book, eating chanachur or chocolate and splitting infinitives. Thank you.
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I've started a blog that is collecting all the 55 word stories. Can I use yours?
Sure Ani, but have you seen the Sepia Mutiny Flash Fiction Fridays? They are really good!
Ish, radhaballavi :(!! Actually, there was this shop in my aunt's village that used to make the most amazing dalpuri. And then don't forget mishti chholar daal aar luchi. Aachha narkol chhapa ta ki?
BTW, check out my latest post on IIPM. I'm sure you'll find it interesting.
Well narkol chhapas are typically homemade mishtis in a semi-circular shape using old wooden moulds. They're made of narkol kora and khoa (I think).
Very typically (at least amader barite we have an unending stock for guests along with other kena mishti etc specific to each guest as they arrived - my dad was oldest and so was my grandma so we got lotss of visitors for Bijoya) made for Bijoya along with narkol narus and kucho nimki. Sighhhh.
Did your family make narkol naru with gur? Oh, those narkol narus are so divine and some of my favourite sweets. My grandma makes narkol narus with gur, but for some strange inexplicable reason, my Ma makes them with white sugar, and they taste bleh. For the record though, my Ma is a fantastic cook, and her pithey-puli are just amazing.
Well, they make it with both, but I must admit to preferring the chini ones! Similarly, I am so not fond of 'chaaler moa' though its such a south 24 pgns thing.
I just went to a Lakshmi Pujo on Monday and the lady had made lovely narkol narus as well as home made sandesh. Oh did I mention the luchi and chholar dal (suitably mishti with narkol, aha) and beguni? :-D I was also induced to do the 'chhaandaa baandhaa' thing: bringing home leftover narus and sandesh!
I've never had chaaler moa. I've had Jaynagar-er moa and frankly didn't think much of it.
Now I'm miserable. I just have to make some mishti chholar dal aar luchi. Haven't made beguni for ages as well, Spyro and Emil love those (Aami ektao khete pai na, aami bhaaji, Spyro khai).
You know in village weddings, every guest does chhaandaa baandhaa. In fact large quantities of bondey and roshogolla are made simply for the purposes of giving away for chhaandaa baandhaa.
hey, there's this blog here:
http://wewereallthereonce.blogspot.com/ it's about calcutta, calcuttans and bengalis. a bit racial maybe, but whatever :D
it would be nice if you could join it. at the very least, may i copy-paste youre posts on cal and bengalis with a link to your blog? my email address, in case you'd like to join (for which i'd need your mail id) is sunkissed.raindrop@gmail.com
Subho bijoya and subho diwali...hows everything ? India theke ghure elum...Baba porer bochor Feb-e retire korchen...this is his last semester of teaching.
Urmi, ei blog ta nishchoi dekechho. Ki fatafati kando!
http://no-rhyme-or-reason.blogspot.com
Rimi, aye aye ma'am - your wish is my command!
Arnab, Shubho Bijoya! Sir'er retire korar reaction kemon? Enthu na dukkho?
T-M, Uff haan oshadharon kabyo tobe majhe majhe ekkebare panu. I wonder if I know this person, koekta kobita'r subject ke bhalo korei chinte parlum :)
Aamio!! Kintu ki moja, mone hochchey je kobi thakur-er blog-ey kobigaan-er moto kobitaar dvondo shuru hotey paarey. A most exalted Bengali tradition that, alas, is on its way out.
Enthu theek bolbo na....I guess Baba will miss teaching a lot.
And kobithakur is a genius...reminds me of JU style kobita.
tarpor? post er ki holo? and yeah, agree with arnab, ekebare JU style kobita :D
Oh oh, time to write a new post, eh? Well maybe. Thing is - this blog is read by a lot of family / friends so I am not sure if I can write about all the scandalous things I've been upto, hehe... I am waiting for my life to be less Sex and the Cityish so I can write about it, [wink]
*all agog and ears and ghapti merey boshey*
Ooooooooooo.....
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