The dekchi of milk, golden yellow, sits patiently on the mud oven. The first rays of the nascent sun, yet ...
Food Styling
Chanar Payesh (Bengali Style Cottage Cheese Milk Pudding )
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Mete Chorchori (Stir-fried Goat Liver, Bengali style)
Another one of those family favorites for a lazy Sunday lunch. Tear-jerking spicy, yet so delectable that you ...
Loitya Maacher Jhuri Bhaja | Lote Maacher Jhuri (Spicy stir-fried bombay duck)
What other than food to bring back waves of nostalgia !! That taste of a lamb curry I had many winters back ...
Sheem Pur (Stuffed flat bean fritters)
Sheem Pur, a family favorite from those days gone by - the humble sheem (flat beans) stuffed with the ...
Aloo Paratha
Morning arrives. Unheralded. Rain-drenched, caped in verdant green. The efforts of the cosy warmth of my ...
Chirer Pulao, Bengali style
Evening descends on hushed tiptoes. Surreptitiously. Crimson and vermilion smother the last vestiges of blue ...
No-bake Mango Cheesecake
With the mango season fast retreating, I had to spend a lazy afternoon doing a no-bake mango cheesecake with ...
Motorshuti Diye Bhaja Moong Dal (Bengali moong dal with peas)
The unmistakable nutty scent draws me, just awaken by the cacophony of birds in the backyard trees, to the ...
Murighonto (Fragrant Rice and Fish Head)
This is the story of a heady romance between fragrant rice and smashed fish head. (Smashed fish head, yes, ...
Basanti Pulao (Yellow Pulao, Bengali style)
The heady fragrance of Gobindobhog, the gorgeous golden of earthy turmeric, an overindulgence of sinful ...
Maacher Matha diye Moong Dal (Yellow Lentils cooked with Fish Head)
We Bengalis love fish head. Period. No celebratory lunch is ever complete without the pompous ...