A honey sunshine morning. A verdant green hillock of shelled pea pods stands in front of Didi, fatigued ...
Traditional Recipes From Grandmas Kitchen
Kosha Murgi (Chicken in a Spicy Dry Gravy)
Yet another lazy Sunday morning. I idle around the house. Aimlessly. Fuss around with the ...
Cauliflower Greens, 3 Ways, Bengali Style
I adore my greens. A trait I believe I inherited from Grandma. Greens were indisputably Grandma's favorites ...
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 ...
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 ...
Nolen Gurer Bhapa Sandesh (Steamed Cottage Cheese Fudge with Date Palm Jaggery)
What's winter without nolen gur ? Grandma would ruminate. I am in my kitchen, bathed in streaks of golden ...
Chaler Dalna (Curry of Fragrant New Rice and a Medley of Winter Vegetables)
Grandma loved her niramish dalna - a delicately flavored tomato curry, perfumed with the earthy cumin and the ...
Sheem Paturi (Flat Beans with Mustard in Banana Leaf Parcels)
I adore winters when it comes to cooking. All the fresh produce that Mother Earth blesses us with. All the ...
Mugshapta | Moongshapta (Yellow Moong Dal Crepes with a Coconut Jaggery Filling)
Dada is super-excited. Almost gasping for breath, he tries to awaken me from sleep. Still in a realm of ...
Natorer Luchir Payesh
Its less than a week to Sankranti and my kitchen is in a manic frenzy cooking a decadent spread of pithe, ...
Bikrampurer Bibikhana Pitha
Grandma sat on a cane mora, her back to the gorgeous winter sunshine, instructing Didi how to prepare the ...
Roshbora (Urad Dal Fritters in Jaggery Syrup)
It's long past sunset. The last vestiges of the evening sun have ebbed out. The crimson of the twilight sky ...












