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...

Winter is coming up and so is the season for khichuri for those sleepy rainy Sunday lunches. This khichuri is from my dida and is not th...

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...

We are regular visitors to the local Farmer’s market. We love the fresh organic produce as well as the artisan food. In one of those visits...

We are just back from Mexico. The weather there constantly reminded me of sultry Kolkata. The temperature hovered around 35 Celsius and the...

Initially I tried and failed to make that perfect silky Dal Makhani at home. Each time I visited a good Indian restaurant and had one, I’d...

This is one of those simple foods, which the Bengali heart craves for now and then. After our super long 6000 km road trip to California whe...

Bhaja Mooger dal is a Bengali delicacy specially for winter. Here yellow moong dal is dry roasted to bring out its nutty aroma and then coo...

Medu vada or vadai is a common South Indian snacks. Everyone seems to make them at home. However, really good quality medu vada simply stan...

Moong lau was generally made at our home with fresh bottle gourds from our backyard. This dry thick dish is made with bottle gourd and roas...

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...

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

While growing up I had heard many times from my dad about the cholar daal my dida made for him with left over chicken pieces. My dida was n...

We rarely had fish head in lentil at home. The reason being that in Kolkata you need to separately buy the fish head, which were in genera...

This is a common bong delicacy on a cold winter day. Markets in Bengal fill up with fresh vegetables in winter and this dish makes ample us...

Sheetal shashti is observed on the 6th day of the Sukla Paksha of Magha month. Which is the day after Saraswati puja. Sheetal means the co...

  Dhoka in a bunch of Indian languages mean betrayal, but believe me the last thing Dhokar dalna does is to betray. It faithfully satisfies...

Traditional bong meal is multi-course (around 7) and starts with a bitter food. The idea is that this bitter food cleanses the system and ge...