Quick Chilli Paneer D ay before yesterday, the weather being very nice, I was out in the backyard in the evening, close to the flowering...

Pakodi Kadhi W e are on the 3rd week of school closures. It has now been 14 days since we are in quarantine though the official lockdown...

B elonging to a minority community in my adopted country and "God-alone-knows-what" community in my mother land, I stay away f...

S ince last December, on my morning commute, instead of tuning in to NPR, I have started listing to 102.7. This is my daughters' f...

C ome fall and then winter, my feed gets populated with soups. Every one is making a soup. And I agree, they are delicious and warm and perf...

Our Lunch plate today B engali Cuisine has so many different varieties of vegetarian dishes that it is hard to keep a count. Charchari, ...

L ast week my Mother, who was visiting us over summer, left for India. Just before she left, I brought home a mocha as I wanted to practical...

T omorrow is India's Independence Day and all I can think of is I am in 3rd grade dressed in bottle green or khaki or some patrioti...

I have this habit of switching veggies, concocting recipes, substituting one ingredient with another. So it is no surprise that I hardly ...

I would have never, ever thought that my first post on this New year would be a Khichuri . Bengali Khichuri | Khichri There are many var...

Mulo Shaak Bata | Phulkopi Pata Bata| Bengali Pata Bata Radish greens, Cauliflower leaves, Lau Pata, and other such fresh green pee...

T he weather around here is getting positively chilly. It had been a fabulous couple of months with great weather, festivities in the air...

I t is uncanny how I often repeat a recipe after years and yet it is around the same time of the year that I last cooked. Yesterday, I...

T his recipe is our friend Mumu's. She is one half of that couple who makes roshogollas and dal gosht and tolerates us when we land...

T here are samosas ,the unique conical shaped Indian pies(in lack of a better word) made with pastry dough and stuffed with spiced potatoes,...

Nonta Bhapa Pithe  | Jhaal Pithe | Steamed Savory rice flour Dumplings Pithe is reminiscent of the times when paddy was harvested in the mon...

T oday Big Sis was talking about a friend of hers who is apparently very rich by hearsay. Little Sis listened to the discussion for a minu...

This post was written way back sometime in July. That is when this dish was cooked and the recipe duly noted. Now when I look back on those ...