The vacations till now, I ruminate in agonizing frustration, have been thoroughly uneventful and ...
Bengali Recipes From Grandmas Kitchen
Kumro Pabda (Pabda with Red Pumpkin)
My fishmonger gets me a delectable catch of pabda this spring-is-melting-into-summer morning. As fresh as ...
Mango Rabri (Milk Pudding with Mangoes)
A listless sun glares down on a parched earth. An ominous lull. Not even bird song greets my fatigued soul. ...
Enchor Murgir Korma (Chicken and Green Jackfruit Korma)
Jackfruit is in profusion this summer. The nondescript sapling Dada and I discovered in the backyard quite ...
Shol Mulo (Shol Maach with Radish)
When my fishmonger calls me this morning to inform that he has (finally !!) managed to get fresh shol maach, ...
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 ...
Bandhakopir Paturi (Cabbage in Banana Leaf Parcels)
I yearn for something feisty this morning. Tear-jerking spicy yet sinfully enticing. Grey foggy winter ...
Peyajkoli Komola Murgi (Chicken with Oranges and Onion Stalks)
I seek inspiration this morning. Something novel. Something I have never attempted before. I sit ...
Koraishutir Sandesh (Cottage Cheese and Green Peas Fudge)
A honey sunshine morning. A verdant green hillock of shelled pea pods stands in front of Didi, fatigued ...
Khoi er Bora (Popped Rice Fritters)
I sit on the welcoming red oxide floor of Grandma's bedroom, the windows overlooking the verdant garden open ...
Enchor Cutlet (Green Jackfruit Cutlet)
The jackfruit sapling, that Dada and I discovered quite accidentally during one of our evening hide-and-seek ...
Chitol Maacher Muitha (Chitol Dumplings in an Onion Gravy)
The incredibly bony virtually inedible gada of the prized chitol maach rests on a kansa thala in front of ...












