This was the longest time I have not blogged since I started. My one and a half month long trip to India was the initial reason. Aft...

Eid Mubarak to all my friends celebrating Eid today. Hope you have been having your fill of Kheer or Payesh at the end of iftar parties. He...

This recipe took a long time to get published as I just didn’t get time over the holidays. A lot of friends has been asking me for it and f...

Each time we go home to Kolkata we make it a point to visit Nahoum’s in New Market . This store has been at this place from 1916. Rulers ha...

One of my cousins is getting married soon. Like all big fat Bengali weddings the menu is being planned the first. Even though the wedding ...

  Updated with new photo Vacation to a lot of Bongs meant visit to Puri, a beach city in the state of Orissa in India. For one of my maas...

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...

My daughter was down with fever and whenever she is unwell she becomes a yogurtarian. So I decided to make something yoghurt based but sti...

  My daughter serves me a huge list when I ask her what she wants to eat on her birthday. I land up making those all through her birthday...

In Hyderabad one of the few yet excellent late night dinner option was the Midnight Biryani Buffet in Ohri’s Banjara. They used to have thi...

Today folks back home in Kolkata is celebrating Makar Sankranti a festival of harvest. The houses fill with the smell of guur (jaggery), fre...

  Makar (Poush) Sankranti is just around the corner. This is when pithe is made in Bong homes. This weekend we had decided to stay at hom...

One of my friends invited me to her home for Christmas and I planned to bake a cake for everyone. I generally make Christmas cake by soaking...