Creating masterpieces with everyday ingredients.
Desire. Which means a strong emotion of longing for some person or object or outcome. The emotion that does not know any limit. The emotion that pushes our boundaries. The emotion that also expands our possibilities. It was nothing but the desire to marry Juliet that made young Romeo lose his life. It is the …
As I am preparing myself to write this recipe post, which happens to be ‘Chingdi Mach Diye Potoler Dolma Bhaja or Prawn Stuffed Pointed Gourd Fritters’, I begin to wonder and realise, how any stuffing in any vegetable or bread or for that matter meat, exponentially raises the strata of that simple dish and also …
I wish I could say that I have been adoring, loving and eating the dish, Macher Dimer Kofta Curry or Fish Roe Kofta Curry since my childhood. I am not sure if I can blame my immature tastebuds for this. But unfortunately, me and my tastebuds could not acknowledge the amazing taste of Macher Dimer …
Probably, as per school text books it is still spring, and probably we have just played Holi, ‘the festival of spring’ a week back. But barring few, most of the states in India are already under the rage of hot spell and preparing themselves for a more severe summer lying ahead. Among all the bodily …
As the usual boring meeting got over little early, and considering the location where we were, without wasting time, my foodie dominated mind immediately sent its soldiers to action, which resulted in prompt decision and swift measures from my end, by proposing to my non-Bengali colleague the idea of venturing into a Bengali sweet shop …
It is said that human civilization has been cultivating lentils from the very conception of civilization itself. Thus, it should not surprise us to encounter lentil in one form or the other across the world, popping out in different form or in different states, waiting its turn to mesmerise us and connect us with our …
If it is possible to gather all the Bengalis in the world at one place, and enquire about their favourite dal, I am sure you will hardly find anyone answering ‘Mushur Dal’ or ‘Masoor Dal’. Strange it is. As you will also hardly find any Bengali, who has not grown up on Mushur Dal with …
Chorchori, not sure who invented the word, but so far it looks like one of the most flexible culinary word, atleast I have come across in my mother tongue ‘Bengali’. Although the internet provides us with lots of variation when it comes to defining Chorchori, and also given the luck of being born in a …
Gulab Jamun. As I sweep away to the world of imagination, where the brown balls soaked in sugar syrup goes inside my mouth, and as I bite into this and the sweet muslin like feeling slowly melts in my tongue, I almost realise the state of nirvana and along with it realise that the sinful …
They say, ‘travelling shapes your personality’. Even though not intentionally, but owing to the reasons which cannot be ignored and are considered important in life, like my father’s transferable job, higher studies and marriage, I am unable to identify myself with any one particular place. And, as I have mentioned earlier too, I owe these …