I yearn for something feisty this morning. Tear-jerking spicy yet sinfully enticing. Grey foggy winter ...
Vegetarian Recipes
Cauliflower Greens, 3 Ways, Bengali Style
I adore my greens. A trait I believe I inherited from Grandma. Greens were indisputably Grandma's favorites ...
Chaler Dalna (Curry of Fragrant New Rice and a Medley of Winter Vegetables)
Grandma loved her niramish dalna - a delicately flavored tomato curry, perfumed with the earthy cumin and the ...
Sheem Paturi (Flat Beans with Mustard in Banana Leaf Parcels)
I adore winters when it comes to cooking. All the fresh produce that Mother Earth blesses us with. All the ...
Pui Shaaker Ghonto (Malabar Spinach with an assortment of vegetables)
I think it would not be a hyperbole if I remarked that all cooks, amateur or professional, have an unabashed ...
Narkel Lau (Lauki / Bottlegourd with Grated Coconut)
Memories of Grandma come fleeting back as I grate my coconut for Narkel Lau this morning. Grandma was a ...
Pepe Ghonto (Raw Papaya Dry Curry)
When my eyes rest on the pristine green papaya, all ready to be be plucked off the tree, I know ...
Chanar Dalna
I have learnt to accept this as fait accompli. My lazy do-nothing Sundays are inevitably succeeded by manic ...
Aloo Phulkopir Dalna (Potato and Cauliflower Curry)
I love my dalnas. Especially my niramish ones. I do need to confess upfront that I have a ...
Bhoger Khichuri aar Labra
She is at her gorgeous best this evening. Resplendent in her new rani sari. Decked in her jewellery. Her ...
Bandhakopir Ghonto (Dry Cabbage curry, Bengali style)
The kitchen is my playground, the laboratory for my perennial stream of culinary experiments. I spend hours ...
Radhaballavi | Radhaballabhi and Aloor Dum
I am all of six, maybe seven. Yet the kitchen draws me like a magnet. My best times are when I am in the ...












