This Durga pujo we got more busy than usual, as both me and my teenage daughter decided to volunteer at the pujo venue. Serving food for hu...

We are still in Durga pujo mode here in Seattle. Pujo is over, but the ever going Bijoya parties are not yet over. I sometimes feel that th...

  Yesterday I met with a bunch of friends for our monthly adda session. One of our friends had posted on Facebook, delicious photos of pra...

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...

Potol or Parwal was rarely available outside Bengal. However, with the whole world shrinking I do see them now even in the US at the local ...

Updated: With new photos This makes it into the top 10 dishes of most bongs. Evolved in Bangladesh this has close ties to it’s neighbori...

UPDATED: With updated photo and content Though I used to live in Kolkata, I grew up among Keralian neighbors. Even though the states of Ke...

  I love Baitong Restaurant in Redmond (Overlake area).  My daughter loves their Gai Hor Bai Toey which is chicken wrapped in leaves and f...

This is a traditional Bengali delicacy. Potol also known as parwal or pointed gourd is first de-seeded to create a cavity inside. The potol ...

My husband bought a huge mocha ( banana flower ) from the local Indian store. It was way too large for our small family. After making mocha...

This is made with prawns and a medley of vegetables. Based on individual choices, many of those vegetables could be replaced with others. F...

This is one of those things which I make when my husband is not around. He feels it’s waste of shrimp and will only pick the shrimps out a...

This was so tasty that right now while writing this post I am having the urge to make it again :). However, this is one of those things in ...

Having grown up as a single child of working parents, I had to; and liked spending some alone time. Even now and then I need that space for...

Sometimes the bongcook is tired of cooking. Interestingly even though my little one will gobble down pizza/pasta when offered, prefers to e...

If I landed at my husband’s (my then classmate’s) home around evening, I’d always find him gorging on this Hakka noodles. Obviously I’d ge...

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...

When I used to work and live in North Bengal our project manager invited me on his son’s naming ceremony. We headed off to their home which...

Since today the world was supposed to end, I didn’t cook anything. But then it was lunch time, the world was still hanging around and we wer...

This super easy one pot meal is perfect for days when you don’t feel like spending too much time in the kitchen. This particular recipe invo...