It's a sultry autumn afternoon. An overwhelming quiet pervades, a sharp contrast to the hectic humdrum and ...
Vegetarian Recipes
Jhinge Kumro Paturi (Ridgegourd and Pumpkin with Mustard and Coconut)
It's been a prolific pumpkin season, Grandma and Maa have been patiently sending dispatches of gorgeous ...
Chal Potol (Parwal / Pointed Gourd with Fragrant Rice)
I would know the tin even if I were blindfolded. Battered. Long past its prime. The Parle biscuit label, an ...
Kumror Dhokar Dalna (Pumpkin and Lentil Cake Curry)
There are days when Dada is outrageously fussy with his food and worse still, for no comprehensible reason. ...
Pepe Jhal (Spicy Green Papaya Curry with Chickpeas and Poppyseed Paste)
Come the rains and the backyard is a frenzied riot of verdant green. The papaya trees, just outside my ...
Aloo Aru Bengena Pitika (Mashed Potatoes and Roasted Eggplant Mash, Assamese Style)
A friend of mine and I decide to catch up over lunch. It's over a decade that she had been out of the ...
Jhinge Shukto (Ridgegourd and Bittergourd Curry)
I hate bittergourd. I throw up the most ingenious of tantrums the moment bittergourd turns up on my lunch ...
Aam Begun (Eggplant with Green Mango)
Eggplant, as fresh as can be, plucked this morning from the kitchen garden. Droplets of rain from the ...
Aam Potol (Parwal / Pointed Gourd with Green Mango)
One thing has not changed though over all the years. The child in me still yearns to run to the backyard, as ...
Komola Phulkopi (Cauliflower with Oranges)
Didi is peeling oranges. The last harvest of Nagpur oranges for the season, I heard Bapi mention to Maa and ...
Koraishutir Dhokar Dalna (Green Pea Dumplings in Fragrant Curry)
Generations of erudite scholars have researched the Tagores of Jorasanko, undeniably the Renaissance family ...
Enchor diye Cholar Dal (Bengali Chana Dal with Green Jackfruit)
The fledgling jackruit tree Dada and I had discovered quite by chance one nondescript evening as we chased ...












