It's yet another lazy do-nothing Sunday morning. I lie on my couch, watching the truant winter sun project ...
Fish and Seafood
Bhetki Maacher Kalia
If jhals, jhols and dalnas, indigenous to Bengal, are soulful, humble and unpretentious, kalias and kormas ...
My Tawa Pomfret Fry
It is one of those Sunday evenings. When time stops still. The sky becomes your muse. And you are drunk by ...
Ilish Kanchkolar Jhol (Hilsa and Raw Banana Curry)
This is the story of a fairytale romance, the princess of the water falling for an unassuming plebian of the ...
Chingri Maacher Bati Chorchori (Prawn curry, Bengali style)
As soon as my eyes rest on the plump prawns fresh from the Bay this rain-blessed cloud-cloaked overcast ...
Loitya Maacher Jhuri Bhaja | Lote Maacher Jhuri (Spicy stir-fried bombay duck)
What other than food to bring back waves of nostalgia !! That taste of a lamb curry I had many winters back ...
Ilish Er Tel Jhol ((Hilsa in a Light Gravy)
The sizzling sun has disappeared behind a grey veil of ominous nimbus. There's a lull. An uncanny calm. I ...
Ilish (Hilsa) Biryani
Today is Eid-Al-Fitr, the day which marks the end of the holy month of Ramdan, a day synonymous with ...
Murighonto (Fragrant Rice and Fish Head)
This is the story of a heady romance between fragrant rice and smashed fish head. (Smashed fish head, yes, ...
Peas Pulao And Fish Kofta Curry
A delectable Mediterranean lunch of pilaf and kofte on a time-stops-still Sunday afternoon inspires me to do ...
Ilish Begun Er Jhol (Hilsa and Eggplant Curry)
Idle ruminations as I cook my Ilish Begun er Jhol this morning- In the universe of cooking, almost ...
Fish Fry, Bengali style
That the colonialists left an indelible impression on the canvass of Calcutta, for long, the second ...












