Creating masterpieces with everyday ingredients.
Yes, with time being a constant rare asset that one can hold on to, I can completely understand, if it is indeed difficult to spare this scarce resource to things that have almost zero relevance towards the progress of our day-to-day chores. Something like our random thoughts, which hardly assist in completion of any task, …
“Babaji, ab toh had paar ho chuki hain…. Ab iss raat me koi aur excitement mat dena…… Boring banado ji iss raat ko, please…” Do you remember the dialogue from a famous Bollywood movie, where the protagonist, fed up of an eventful night, prays to the Almighty to make it boring. With a hectic life …
We eat food for several reasons. Of course, it goes without saying that intake of food is one of the important criteria for staying alive. But apart from that, there are also other reasons which do have a role in deciding the food that we choose to eat. Some of the reasons like being hungry …
“No, you cannot go out to play if you do not finish your vegetables.” Sounds familiar right? Looks like we all grew up with those words. Since ages we gave a tough time to our parents to make vegetables reach our intestines. Keeping the kid healthy for present and for future, and making the same …
By now, everyone who has read atleast 2-3 of my blog posts in entirety will know, I like to analyse anything and everything. Looks like nothing passes my mind with an easy corridor. Not sure what is the utility of these analyses at a pragmatic level. But one thing is sure, that these analyses do …
‘Shorshe Bata’. The first impression you are bound to get from these two words is, ‘it is coming from a Bengali’. Well, unlike this time, probably everytime you might not be correct with your judgement, but the words, ‘Shorshe Bata’ do unfurl some emotions and memories for a Bengali, hidden or safely stored in the …
Weeknight dinner and tastebuds. Looks like there has always been an ongoing tussle between these two, leaving the mind to what I call at the advanced stage of confusion, for it to make the most difficult decision of prioritising between paucity of time and calling of heart to have yummy food. And then there is …
During my childhood, I was never considered the creative kind of kid. And why should I? I never gave anyone and not even my own self any chance to consider me creative. Every child but me in my family including my own brother had some creative hobby, that they exercised with persistence, and which according …
Roti. The word which is not only familiar, but is also undeniably the basis of our very existence. Yes, for an Indian, Roti is so much part and parcel of our everyday life, that it goes to an extent of getting unnoticed. From the very day we learn to grab our first bite, we have …
In one of my previous post (refer Dalia Upma), I have already made the readers attuned to the benefits of broken wheat. Hence, it is quite obvious and also logical on my part to imagine and create recipes that will allow us to extend the possibilities of including broken wheats in our regular menu in …