Bengali Recipes From Grandmas Kitchen

Ilish Shukto (Hilsa with a Medley of Vegetables)

Ilish Shukto ? My cousin-in-law gawks at me in stunned disbelief. A pristine shimmering-silver ilish rests ...

I remember a rainy afternoon when Mashi cooked Ilish, an overnight catch from Kolaghat which the fishmonger ...

I wake up to the pitter-patter of raindrops on my window pane. A grey morning. A truant sun playing ...

There's something romantic about a grey overcast morning. The sulking clouds. The drunken gales. The ...

Today is Eid-Al-Fitr, the day which marks the end of the holy month of Ramdan, a day synonymous with ...

I hate bittergourd. I throw up the most ingenious of tantrums the moment bittergourd turns up on my lunch ...

Eggplant, as fresh as can be, plucked this morning from the kitchen garden. Droplets of rain from the ...

Grandma's princess is glum this morning. Incarcerated indoors, thanks to the merciless heat of a tyrannical ...

I potter around my sun-washed kitchen, gazing at the luscious Bay prawns that rest patiently on the black ...

One thing has not changed though over all the years. The child in me still yearns to run to the backyard, as ...

The fledgling bottlegourd vine by the cowshed is mischievous. Every time a punctilious Manikkaka trains her ...

The heat has been excruciating over the last couple of days. The humidity punishing. It's a just a week to ...