Bengali Food Blog

Nolen Gurer Payesh |(Rice Pudding with date palm jaggery, Bengali Style)

Grandma's cooking prowess was legendary. The only indulgence she allowed herself, despite her spartan ...

If jhals, jhols and dalnas, indigenous to Bengal, are soulful, humble and unpretentious, kalias and kormas ...

I have learnt to accept this as fait accompli. My lazy do-nothing Sundays are inevitably succeeded by manic ...

This is the story of a fairytale romance, the princess of the water falling for an unassuming plebian of the ...

I love my dalnas. Especially my niramish ones. I do need to confess upfront that I have a ...

There's something special about a Sunday lunch. The unhurried pace. The pleasure of childhood ...

She is at her gorgeous best this evening. Resplendent in her new rani sari. Decked in her jewellery. Her ...

The kitchen is my playground, the laboratory for my perennial stream of culinary experiments. I spend hours ...

One of my indulgences, I must confess, when rainy days and Mondays get me down, guaranteed to elevate me from ...

I am all of six, maybe seven. Yet the kitchen draws me like a magnet. My best times are when I am in the ...

The milk sits on the gas stove. Impatiently. I stir the pot occasionally. To pacify the rebellions ...

As I potter around in the kitchen this morning, making my luchi dough and stirring my pot of narkel diye ...