The vacations till now, I ruminate in agonizing frustration, have been thoroughly uneventful and ...
Food Blog
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Nolen Gur Panna Cotta
Winter is fading away. Silently. On hushed tiptoes. The enigma of the mist over the lake no longer greets my ...
Doi Mouri Parshe (Mullets in a Fennel Yogurt Sauce)
So when my eyes greet the gorgeous shimmering silver parshe at the Manicktala fish market during my recent ...
My Nolen Gur and Orange Cake (My Orange Cake with Date Palm Jaggery)
Another mist-mysterious winter morning. I walk into my kitchen, an infant sun playfully projecting a ...
The Anglo Indian Mutton Dakbungalow
The Raj, as any colonial historian would remind you, was perpetually on the move. Administering a ...
Ball Curry, the Anglo Indian Way
As a run up to Christmas, I am cooking Anglo-Indian recipes this entire fortnight. Pies and puddings. ...
Venetian Carrot Cake
A couple of years back, her research took my sister-in-law to Italy for close to six months. A delightful ...
Kalai Dal (Urad Dal)
And it would be supremely unfair if I did not publish a sequel to my post last week on the sublime Sylheti ...
Doi Maach (Fish in Yogurt)
The humble katla goes for a facelift this morning. Neither the ubiquitous coriander powder scented jhol ...