Have you watched the series Queen’s Gambit on Netflix? If you haven’t, please watch it. This series packs so much into it, and yet it’s possibly the most grounded show that I have ever watched. There are no real…
Mutton do payaza
Category: Authentic Indian
Aloo Matar and a sweet tooth
Have you ever visited the blog ‘Go bake yourself‘? Chances are you have. Hence you possibly know Uru, the force behind that crazy amazing blog is the ‘sweetest’ girl in our blogosphere.You don’t? No way. You HAVE to check her…
Begun tel kalia tok and Happy New Year
As we ring in the ‘Poila Boishakh’, or the ‘Bengali New year’, the most I miss about the day is the morning ritual of touching my parents feet. It used to be customary every year as we were growing up. Touching of feet…
Paneer tikka lababdar
I have just started Instagramming. For someone who is social media savvy, I am quite a slouch when it comes to using visual platforms. I’m learning. One of the pictures (the one above) that became an instant hit was a…
Betki diye Doi Maach ( Barramundi in creamy yogurt sauce)
If you are familiar with the state of West bengal in India, you might also know that Bengalis and ‘Maacher-jhol-bhaat’ are basically synonyms. ‘Maach’ being fish, ‘bhaat’ being rice, Bengalis are stereotyped into eating fish and rice every-single-day. Which, interestingly,is…
Navratan Korma
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! Tawa Fry – Vegetables stuffed with Masala
To count blessings…..to say thanks for little and big things that we have; For peace, for health, for happiness of the heart. Wishing a beautiful Thanksgiving to my blogosphere friends. On this day, as the blog world fills up with…
Murg Kasoori methi
My dear blog, I have a confession to make. I have been disgracefully inattentive of you lately. I have neglected to keep you updated, I have not given you enough food content to keep you going. The numerous beautiful…
Mango Mousse with Gulukand
I promised a friend of mine that I would be posting the recipe of this particular mango mousse that I recently made. It’s a regular mousse recipe, but what makes it different from an everyday mango mousse is an ingredient…
Fried Chicken from Minnie’s kitchen
“Wait wait, don’t start on the curry yet,” Mr L8H’s voice crackled over into my ears through bad cell phone reception. I paused at the process of washing the recently defrosted cornish hens in my basin. I planned to finish…
Dal Tadka dhaba style
Few posts ago, I wrote about how to make ‘roti/chappati’ at home. I posted a picture of dal tadka there with a promise to come back with the recipe. Thing have been on the crazier side since. Not that…
Fish in Kashundi – a mustard relish from Bengal
The clouds of cold are finally lifting from the horizon, slowly, but surely. The residue is there, in form of ice on the ground that has now solidified into rocks, blanketing the green brown earth underneath. That Earth…
Roti/Chappati Indian flatbread Step by step
Unlike the popular belief, Indians don’t eat naan at home (I actually had a lady enquire about that to me a while ago and I was surprised, to say the least, but I realized that probably is the most common…
Dhania Murg Makhni – Creamy Coriander chicken
Cilantro based recipes are quite common in India, but not many of them use the roots, which is primarily found in South Asian cuisine. Cilantro or coriander plant is one of those very few annual plants whose every part can…
Kuchumber – salad with scraped vegetables
When we landed in US, we were provided an apartment by my husband’s company that had a beautiful restroom, hereafter called ‘bathroom’. We were awed by it. There was triple – yes three – sinks, topped by mirrors that ran…