Oranges and Winter Afternoons....

Remember those lazy winter afternoons sitting on the terrace with your grandmother while she dried her hair and guarded the drying boris ... Read More

Winters in Delhi & Recipe for Fish Amritsari....

Winters in Delhi.... bitter cold with howling winds, occasional rains, grey swirling mists and a watery sun being no help at all... pro... Read More

Cabbage Cooked the Bengali Way (Badha Kopi ir Torkari)

This is a typical winter dish because cabbage is harvested mainly in winter in India. Sometimes we make this with prawns but this is the veg... Read More

Shorshe Bata Diye Maach er Jhol (Fish Cooked in Mustard Sauce)

This is a staple fish dish, served for lunch, in Bengali homes. Every Bengali home has its own special recipe for this dish, but more or ... Read More

Pancakes with oranges and chocolate spread

This was first posted on 1st of January 2011. Reposting this here. Happy New Year folks. I decided to start the new year with something... Read More

Lychee Tea from Sri Lanka

My brother had gone to Sri Lanka and like any good tourist had got a bag full of teas from there. My mother sent me boxes of spiced ginge... Read More

Chilli Chicken, Nepali Style....

How is the new year treating you so far? It has been okay for us...hoping for better things to come.... Last 2 weeks I have been alternat... Read More

Orange Soup

Since winter started and Able & Cole started flooding our house with more veggies than we can finish eating..we have started prepar... Read More

Niramish Khichuri, Bengali Style....

Living so far from home, celebration often takes the form of food. This is what happened to Saraswati Pujo this year, which was celebrated ... Read More

Pao Bhaji

Reposted from Hold A Thought, Pen It Down which you can find  here . Is it my imagination or does pao bhaji taste best in Mumbai's Ch... Read More

Some Foodie Updates

Breakfast in bed one lazy Saturday morning by husband dear...the green tea and smaller bits of toast are mine... Recently I bought ... Read More

Pear Upside Down Cake

Reposted from Hold A Thought, Pen It Down which you can find  here . I was reading a novel called 'The Monday Night Cooking School... Read More

Hariyali Chicken Kabab, my version

Well this is strictly not the traditional hariyali kebab recipe. But it tasted so lip smacking good,  I wanted to share it with you. It ... Read More

Strawberry Tarts....

Reposted from a previous blog of mine. With the berry season on at full blast, whenever you visit a store or a super market there are ... Read More

Chocolate Brownies...

Reposted from my blog Hold A Thought, Pen It Down (which you can find  here ) I have been looking for an easy recipe for  chocolate brown... Read More

Glimpses of Saraswati Pujo

Saraswati the Goddess of Knowledge comes to Hindu homes sometime in winter according to the Hindu calender. It is a very popular puja ... Read More

A Curry Book

Last weekend we spend two happy days relaxing in Wales. We went to Hay-on-Wye, a small town crammed with about forty bookshops. Naturally w... Read More

Caramel Pudding

I have grown up eating this pudding. My mother makes this  often. She learnt it from my  pipi  (eldest aunt) who in turn had learnt it from ... Read More