Traditional Bengali Recipes

Bel Pana Tart (Wood Apple Tart)

The bel tree was not my favourite tree in Grandmas backyard. Well, far from it. And there was ample reason ...

Do remember to get my khejur knata, Grandma reminds Bapi as he takes the last sip of tea from the bone-china ...

Payeshpata, it was much later that I came to know they were far more familiar as Pandan leaves in the ...

The pot of milk, battered with age and use, sits on the stove, a low flame providing the needed ...

Sunday is bliss. Lazy let's-snooze-once-more mornings. Idle time-stops-still evenings. Out of ...

Age is catching up fast on Grandma. She no longer spends long hours in the soot -blackened ancient kitchen, ...

My princess must have inherited her love for fish from her Grandfather, Grandma would inevitably comment to ...

Grandma is in the kitchen, seated on her ancient pnire, the twin oonoons are still at work despite the late ...

It’s the afternoon before Sankranti. The house is a cauldron of frenzied activity, the aroma of nolen gur ...

What are those ? A curious me asks Didi, pointing to the soot-blackened earthenware that she, after minutes, ...

Thursdays are special. These are Lokkhibaar, days when Grandma and Maa offer prayers to the generous Goddess ...

There is no one I know who is so full of joie de vivre and exudes as much positivity, even when faced with ...