Fish and Seafood

Masor Bilahi Tenga (Fish Curry with Tomatoes, Assamese Style)

My kitchen has been a mad frenzy all week, I have been whipping up my favorite Assamese ...

Manikkaka looks up anxiously at the charcoal-scarred sky. It is barely nine am this June morning, the first ...

Ilish Shukto ? My cousin-in-law gawks at me in stunned disbelief. A pristine shimmering-silver ilish rests ...

I remember a rainy afternoon when Mashi cooked Ilish, an overnight catch from Kolaghat which the fishmonger ...

I wake up to the pitter-patter of raindrops on my window pane. A grey morning. A truant sun playing ...

There's something romantic about a grey overcast morning. The sulking clouds. The drunken gales. The ...

I potter around my sun-washed kitchen, gazing at the luscious Bay prawns that rest patiently on the black ...

The fledgling bottlegourd vine by the cowshed is mischievous. Every time a punctilious Manikkaka trains her ...

The heat has been excruciating over the last couple of days. The humidity punishing. It's a just a week to ...

My fishmonger gets me a delectable catch of pabda this spring-is-melting-into-summer morning. As fresh as ...

When my fishmonger calls me this morning to inform that he has (finally !!) managed to get fresh shol maach, ...

The incredibly bony virtually inedible gada of the prized chitol maach rests on a kansa thala in front of ...