Bengali Desserts/ Sweets Recipes

Taler Pitha

There’s a melancholy despair about Bijoya Doshomi. It’s meant to be a day of festivities and celebration, ...

Grandma carefully pulls out an old Britannia tin, the colours faded with age, the surface dimpled having ...

A mellow winter morning. I lie on Grandmas ancient four-poster, cocooned in the warmth of a patchwork ...

Playing with dough is my favourite pastime these days. I tear a frugal bit from the ball of dough Didi has ...

A disciplined row of custard apples rests on my kitchen counter. Luscious and plump, from a farm, not far ...

A listless sun glares down on a parched earth. An ominous lull. Not even bird song greets my fatigued soul. ...

A honey sunshine morning. A verdant green hillock of shelled pea pods stands in front of Didi, fatigued ...

I yield to temptation yet again this honey-mellow winter morning. Of cooking with oranges. Plump luscious ...

What's winter without nolen gur ? Grandma would ruminate. I am in my kitchen, bathed in streaks of golden ...

It's Makar Sankranti and my kitchen is a cauldron of furious activity. The chirer doodhpuli and sujir ...

Dada is super-excited. Almost gasping for breath, he tries to awaken me from sleep. Still in a realm of ...

Its less than a week to Sankranti and my kitchen is in a manic frenzy cooking a decadent spread of pithe, ...