It's a sultry autumn afternoon. An overwhelming quiet pervades, a sharp contrast to the hectic humdrum and ...
Traditional Recipes From Grandmas Kitchen
Jhinge Kumro Paturi (Ridgegourd and Pumpkin with Mustard and Coconut)
It's been a prolific pumpkin season, Grandma and Maa have been patiently sending dispatches of gorgeous ...
Chal Potol (Parwal / Pointed Gourd with Fragrant Rice)
I would know the tin even if I were blindfolded. Battered. Long past its prime. The Parle biscuit label, an ...
Anarosh Ilish (Hilsa with Pineapple)
Manikkaka looks up anxiously at the charcoal-scarred sky. It is barely nine am this June morning, the first ...
Doodh Pabda (Pabda with Milk)
There's something romantic about a grey overcast morning. The sulking clouds. The drunken gales. The ...
Dhakai Murgi Khichuri (Chicken Khichdi, Dhaka Style)
Today is Eid-Al-Fitr, the day which marks the end of the holy month of Ramdan, a day synonymous with ...
Shahi Beguni (Special Eggplant Fritters)
It's wistful nostalgia for me on this auspicious day of Rathyatra, the chariot festival when the Lord and his ...
Aam Begun (Eggplant with Green Mango)
Eggplant, as fresh as can be, plucked this morning from the kitchen garden. Droplets of rain from the ...
Aam Potol (Parwal / Pointed Gourd with Green Mango)
One thing has not changed though over all the years. The child in me still yearns to run to the backyard, as ...
Lau Patay Ilish Bhapa (Hilsa steamed in Bottlegourd leaves)
The fledgling bottlegourd vine by the cowshed is mischievous. Every time a punctilious Manikkaka trains her ...
Enchor Kofta Pulao (Green Jackfruit Kofta Pilaf)
The vacations till now, I ruminate in agonizing frustration, have been thoroughly uneventful and ...
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 ...












