Since my childhood days until now, in the rainy season during the monsoons, my father certainly brings home taro stolons especially for my mother from the daily or weekly markets, when it becomes available in plenty, as this is one of her favourite items. She has different recipes with this healthy and tasty ingredient, be…
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Doi Dim,..a curd based egg curry for a soothing & delightful summer meal.
Can we make eggs taste eggs-o-tic? out of the world? …Why not?? Eggs are one of the wonderful ingredients in the culinary world which had been utilized in myriad ways since ancient times to become an integral part of cooking as a part of different food habits around the world across cultures & civilizations, to…
Chaltar Tok
Bengali cuisine is usually considered comparatively lower in calories compared to most of the other Indian cuisines, but still full of flavours. The spice level is moderate and well balanced. If there is a strongly flavoured ingredient, there is also a mellow ingredient to counter it. A typical Bengali meal comprises of components ranging from…
Chilled Ash Gourd Relish with Poppy seeds,…A Vegan Dessert
Wish you all a happy, colourful & flavourful Holi ! The festival of colours have arrived again and since Holi is a splash of colours and a bash of flavours, rejoicing and merrymaking on this occasion will also mean a culinary celebration. Amidst the plethora of alluring and popular items for the festival e.g., gujjiyas,…
No Oil Sabudana Saatwik Pulao
Om Namah Shivaya !.. Happy Mahashivratri to all ! India is a land of festivities and every indian hindu festival is a celebration of food in itself. The kind of food that characterizes hindu festivals are mostly vegetarian and that too of the Saatwik type, which are vegetarian without onion and garlic. Saatwik food are…
Komola/Orange Kheerโฆa classic Bengali dessert
Wish you all a Happy Vasant Panchami !๐ท๐ป๐ผ๐บ๐ธ๐๐ณ๐๐..May Mother Goddess Saraswati bless us all with the light of knowledge and wisdom and rescue us from the darkness of the ignorance and gloom. Bidding adieu to the winter with Vasant Panchami which is synonymous with basanti colour marks the beginning of the spring season, which is…
Tricolour Instant Dhokla
Jai Hind ! Jain Bharat ! ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ณ๐โจ๐๐ผ๐ธ๐ท Wish you all a very happy republic day. Let us celebrate the spirit of Indianness with the spirit of patriotism, unify ourselves and strengthen the power of India to lead the world in the coming days. On this anniversary day of implementation of our Indian Constitution, we commemorate…
Barnyard Millet Soup with Mustard Greens
Millets were always in our diet from centuries and are known to be consumed some 7000 years ago when multi-crop agriculture and settled farming societies have formed. Millets were being cultivated across Asia and Africa as major food crops for human consumption some 4,000 years ago, and they gradually became major grains inย Europe during the…