Nothing gives this grown-up girl more joy on a mellow honey-sunshine-blessed winter afternoon than ...
Desserts
Atar Payesh (Sitaphal Kheer / Custard Apple Pudding)
A disciplined row of custard apples rests on my kitchen counter. Luscious and plump, from a farm, not far ...
Mille Feuille Mango Crepe Cake
It's the crack of dawn. Goubert Avenue and the fabled French Quarters of Pondicherry still hide behind a ...
Thakurbarir Mango Pudding
Who would have ever imagined a rustic Pirali Brahmin girl, from a nondescript village in far-flung Jessore, ...
Mango Rabri (Milk Pudding with Mangoes)
A listless sun glares down on a parched earth. An ominous lull. Not even bird song greets my fatigued soul. ...
Koraishutir Sandesh (Cottage Cheese and Green Peas Fudge)
A honey sunshine morning. A verdant green hillock of shelled pea pods stands in front of Didi, fatigued ...
Gulkand Ki Rabri (Milk Pudding with Rose Petal Jam)
Grandma is not addicted to her paan. (betel leaf) It's only those time-stops-still afternoons, once, maybe ...
Nolen Gur Panna Cotta
Winter is fading away. Silently. On hushed tiptoes. The enigma of the mist over the lake no longer greets my ...
Kheer Komola | Komola Payesh | (Milk Pudding with Oranges)
I yield to temptation yet again this honey-mellow winter morning. Of cooking with oranges. Plump luscious ...
My Nolen Gur and Orange Cake (My Orange Cake with Date Palm Jaggery)
Another mist-mysterious winter morning. I walk into my kitchen, an infant sun playfully projecting a ...
Nolen Gurer Bhapa Sandesh (Steamed Cottage Cheese Fudge with Date Palm Jaggery)
What's winter without nolen gur ? Grandma would ruminate. I am in my kitchen, bathed in streaks of golden ...
Bhapa Pitha | Tekeli Pitha | Keteli Pitha (Steamed Rice Cakes with Coconut and Jaggery)
It's Makar Sankranti and my kitchen is a cauldron of furious activity. The chirer doodhpuli and sujir ...