This is part 2 of our pujo spread  post. Prompted by our friends going to a pujo spread buffet at a local Indian restaurant, I decided t...

Every year during this time everyone in USA gets crazy about pumpkin for all the wrong reasons (ahem ghosts). They drink pumpkin la...

Few days back I posted the story of our new family tradition of making Prawn-pulao every Mahalaya. Now you cannot really eat pulao by itsel...

After a long hiatus I am back to food blogging. This post is brought to you by a bad bout of cold. The last time I had a cold was when I vis...

Sometimes I need to make lunch for my daughter and her friends of European origin. It’s hard to get something to plate which both would e...

Gondhoraj Bhetki is one of the most popular dishes served in the famous Oh Calcutta! restaurant in Kolkata. If you landed on this page sear...

In our last Kolkata visit my venerable Buria Pishi asked my daughter, what she’d like to have. My daughter asked for some butter masala w...

When I first posted this picture to facebook a few asked me why have I used Zarda (chewable tobacco) in a recipe. I hope someone doesn’t...

We had a steady stream of guests over the holidays. Especially to cater to the palate of our local friends I chose this mild kebab, which ...

In all our trips to Costco my daughter insists that I pick up the huge king crabs they have on sale. I mostly land up making Konkani Crab ...

My daughter having grown up in South India loves to eat Idli. Unfortunately I do not make it regularly enough to keep a supply of idli-rice,...

This recipe has been waiting in the queue for quite a while now. Couple of months back we went for a 10 days road trip to California. We rea...

My husband’s office café has a chef exhibition area where different kinds of food are made each day. One of those days is the pasta day. In ...

Long time back when we used to live in India, my husband came on a trip to US with one of his colleagues Neeraja. They went shopping toget...

Having lived in the southern part of India for one fourth of my life has had it’s effect on my cooking as well.One of the things we picked ...

We are avid hikers. One of the challenge of a hike is to pack good food. You want to ensure that you pack something that is easily packable...

Our last couple of dine outs have been to African restaurants. Interestingly I saw that Ethiopian and Moroccan food has heavy use of lentils...

Winter break means that lots of meals are had at home. No banking on kids and husband finding their stuff in the cafeteria so that I can re...

Once Halloween comes up in US, everyone finds excuse to put some form of pumpkin in anything they eat or drink. While some like pumpkin pi...

The surprise birthday party dinner my husband threw for me was all good, but for the egg kurma. I didn’t like it and it left me craving fo...