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Mumbai Food: Binge on tantalizing Christmas treats from Kolkata
- Updated: December 14, 2016
Christmas Pudding with Brandy Butter
Two years ago, we done a bucket list outing to Kolkata during Christmas week. We can attest that a festival, ordinarily famous as Boro Din (Big Day) transcends all religions and is distinguished with fervour. Tuck into normal goodies that move in a sniff of Kolkata during Christmas, in a celebratory plate prepared by Bandra-based Pia Promina DasGupta Barve this Sunday. The plate will underline a few contemporary dishes too.
Soaked with nostalgia
“While Park Street, New Market and Bow Barracks are famous for their gratifying vibe, even in tiny pockets of a city like Gariahat, we will find a babu in a emporium seeking for a tiny fruit cake and a mini Christmas tree,” shares a 63-year aged Bengali home chef. “Christmas has been a vast understanding in a city, quite overdue to a remanants of a anglicised bar enlightenment from a Raj. In my home, we would prepare dishes and sequence a rest from a Bengal Club. Many relatives had a vast crony turn that would accumulate in somebody’s grass and do a pot luck. Each one was in assign of one dish. They would play a piano, sing and dance to The Beatles’ hits. Bearers were hired from a club. we skip that culture, and this is my approach to relive those memories and delight my parents,” reminisces Barve. “Their parties would embody adult to 60 people. Pork and a bird were essential in a meal. Turkey wasn’t simply accessible during a time, so it was customarily goose. we am doing some of those dishes and some that my mom cooked, like a Liver Pate. I’m creation it with duck liver,” she adds.
This Polish-Style Roast Duck has a stuffing of apple and vodka
Ginger bread cookies
Eat your heart out
Barve’s dishes will offer dips, pates, toasts and biscuits. “I was a usually one during home who baked bread, so my mom always asked me to do it, and we adore it,” admits Barve. There will also be Rolled Mops (pickled fish with horseradish sauce) and Smoked Norwegian Salmon Fillet. “My mom did a Bhetki fish credentials though we am certain she would do salmon if it was simply accessible behind then. we will fume a salmon myself,” she informs. Also, on a menu is Fresh Leg of Ham served with drink sauce, Polish-Style Roast Duck with a stuffing of apples and vodka, and home done Egg Mayonnaise, that according to barve is a many critical accompaniment for a gratifying plate like this. “The Calcutta Club used to do a good leg of lamb. They would boil it in juices. we boil it in beer,” reveals Barve, who sources her mixture locally solely for a few supplements like Gur Batsha (a jaggery sweet) and cheese from a city called Bandel in West Bengal. “If we ask me, what we do with these ingredients, we won’t tell we my secret,” she teases. On a side, there will be Sauteed Vegetables, Baked coupler Potatoes, Creamed Spinach and breads. For dessert, Christmas Pudding with Brandy Butter will be served with assorted cakes and cookies followed by a turn of coffee. If we skip a epicurean meal, we can also pre-order a goodies that she will have delivered.
When Mother Teresa met Humpty Dumpty
“When we was 10, we was partial of a organisation of kids called Humpty Dumpty who would do charity. My grandmother was a boss of a group. Each year, we would applaud Christmas during Mother Teresa’s institution on JC Bose Road in Kolkata. One primogenitor would account a tree; everybody would chip in for food and decorations, and we would get NGOs to present films to screen,” recalls Barve, adding, “In 1962, we did a play to collect supports for this. We collected Rs 33 and 50 paise. My aunt combined her bullion award to make it Rs 34, and we gave it to a afterwards Governor. When we met Mother Teresa only before she upheld away, she still called me ‘Humpty Dumpty,'” says Barve.
ON: Dec 18, 1 pm
AT: Bandra Talao, Bandra (W). (Venue will be disclosed after a engagement confirmation)
CALL: 26433500
COST: Rs 2,200