So when my eyes greet the gorgeous shimmering silver parshe at the Manicktala fish market during my recent ...
Fish
Peyajkoli Rui / Peyajkoli Katla (Rohu / Katla with Green Onion Stalks)
Winter and her benevolence. Her bouquet of gorgeous vegetables. I say to myself. My eyes on the bunch of ...
Fish Stew, Bengali Style
What is it about winter that makes me yearn for comfort food ? I muse this morning. Maybe its the nip in the ...
Prawn Jalfrezi, the Anglo Indian Way
The memsahibs bawarchi was a Mog by descent. His ancestors, who hailed from far-flung Chittagong, ...
Fisherman’s Pie, the Anglo Indian Way
I continue on my Anglo-Indian culinary sojourn, whipping up stunning delicacies in a run up to Christmas. The ...
Fish Croquettes (Maacher Chop, Bengali Style)
As a run up to Christmas, I shall be cooking Anglo Indian recipes this entire fortnight. Pies and puddings. ...
Ol Chingri (Prawns with Ol / Jimikand / Elephant Foot Yam)
You do not need to be a wizard in the kitchen to do justice to prawns. Add them to a stir-fry, throw them ...
Doi Maach (Fish in Yogurt)
The humble katla goes for a facelift this morning. Neither the ubiquitous coriander powder scented jhol ...
Narkel Bhetki (Sea Bass in Coconut Milk)
One of those mad hatter mornings with a daunting roster of to-dos. And as it inevitably happens on such ...
Ilish Barishali (Hilsa with Coconut in a Yoghurt – Mustard sauce)
It's yet another lazy do-nothing Sunday morning. I lie on my couch, watching the truant winter sun project ...
Bhetki Maacher Kalia
If jhals, jhols and dalnas, indigenous to Bengal, are soulful, humble and unpretentious, kalias and kormas ...
My Tawa Pomfret Fry
It is one of those Sunday evenings. When time stops still. The sky becomes your muse. And you are drunk by ...












