Bengali Fish Curry

Doodh Pabda (Pabda with Milk)

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 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 ...

The laal shaak resting pretty on the kitchen counter draws me to a listless afternoon decades back. The ...

Needless to reiterate, we Bengalis love our fish. And over hundreds of years, we have been intrepid ...

The plump line-caught Bay of Bengal prawns that rest on my kitchen counter this morning pose infinite ...

There are days when wallowing in idle ruminations gives me the most sublime of pleasures. If this were a ...

So when my eyes greet the gorgeous shimmering silver parshe at the Manicktala fish market during my recent ...

Winter and her benevolence. Her bouquet of gorgeous vegetables. I say to myself. My eyes on the bunch of ...