One of my most ardent readers is now one of my very good friend and neighbor. One day over tea we were discussing, how hard it is to make c...

I have had the good fortune to be always blessed with great neighbors. Our Seattle home is no exception. We meet a few times over the summ...

The same recipe works for both tikia and balls based on the final shape you choose. If you have ample time, shape them as discs (tikia)...

  I got this recipe from Mr. Atul Sikand over a food network on Facebook. The day I decided to make it I called my husband to know whether...

My daughters only first cousin Sumo loves spicy chicken. He told me to post a recipe which his mom (my sis in law) could make for him. Sin...

Eid Mubarak to all my friends who are celebrating Eid tomorrow. Hope you are filling to your brim at the Iftar parties. When I was a colle...

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 pictures Moglai Porota as we actually pronounce it brings back memories of durga pujo, college-street, secret rendezvous...

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...

Rajasthan is not a place people associate with Meat. My husband is always eager to narrate the horror story of how he had to stay without n...

Old Hyderabad is littered with small bakeries that along with cakes and biscuits serve this mind blowingly spicy, yet yummy Chicken and Gob...

My mashi (aunt) loves cauliflower and so my cousin Puja went out and bought some with the intention of making Tandoori Gobi for mashi’s bir...

In our school, it was a very common to see that a bunch of folks remained hungry with a box full of alur dum or ghugni at the end of the lun...

The people of Chittagong (in Bangladesh) uses a lot of chillies or atleast that’s what my grand-mom used to tell me. So don’t get shocked wi...

The Rogan Josh is commonly served in restaurants of Kolkata is very different from the actual Kashmiri Rogan josh. I have previously publish...

When we were in school most wedding banquets started serving what they called Kashmiri Stuffed Dum Aloo. They varied considerably in taste a...

I see a lot of stories online around the origin of this famous Bangladeshi dish. I do not know which is the real story but I heard the same ...

Long time back when I went to Goa on our honeymoon we went to a small restaurant by the beach called Why Knot. We befriended the waiter th...

This is a light preparation of chicken which is perfectly suitable for a very hot day. This deviates considerably from traditional Indian...

Kechki fish generally floats on the top of rivers and make the water shimmer with it’s silver color. I have heard stories from my aunts abo...