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Nolen Gur Panna Cotta
Winter is fading away. Silently. On hushed tiptoes. The enigma of the mist over the lake no longer greets my ...
Kheer Komola | Komola Payesh | (Milk Pudding with Oranges)
I yield to temptation yet again this honey-mellow winter morning. Of cooking with oranges. Plump luscious ...
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 ...
Satpathy Auntys Enduri Pitha, Odisha Style
The doorbell rang. The jarring shrill piercing the lull of a parched summer afternoon. A kind of ominous ...
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. ...
Christmas, the Anglo-Indian way. My tribute to the hundreds of Mrs. Bakers
Mrs Baker lived alone. In a humble rented accommodation in a leafy lane off Syed Amir Ali Avenue, a brisk ...
Venetian Carrot Cake
A couple of years back, her research took my sister-in-law to Italy for close to six months. A delightful ...
Pui Shaaker Ghonto (Malabar Spinach with an assortment of vegetables)
I think it would not be a hyperbole if I remarked that all cooks, amateur or professional, have an unabashed ...
Doi Maach (Fish in Yogurt)
The humble katla goes for a facelift this morning. Neither the ubiquitous coriander powder scented jhol ...
Begun Diye Kalai Dal (Urad Dal with Eggplant)
I grew up in a sylvan sleepy hamlet in the far-flung Barak Valley of Assam. Amidst pristine verdant greens. ...












