Latest Recipes

Cauliflower Shrimp curry (Fulkopi chingrir jhol)

I can not believe it’s almost the third week of February. Mom was saying that the weather is getting warmer in Kolkata (about 73F). Boston is still freezing, hovering around 28F. M is saying that winter could last for at least another month. A warm bowl of shrimp cauliflower curry with […]

Recipe for roasted yellow lentils with poppy-seed potatoes

The recipe has been published by BostonGlobe. You can find the link here. Dal! I have no idea why it took me so long to write a post about the most common food in our diet. I make a big pot of it every week to go with my non-veg and veg […]

Jhalmuri

Jhalmuri – Revisiting childhood

A couple of weeks ago Subhasmita asked me if we can do a guest post together. I suggested it be theme based and when I mentioned this idea to Sujatha and Anjana they wanted to join as well. We, four kitchen divas, decided to cook an Indian snack and blog it. […]

Paneer bhurji aka Paneer stir fry

Desk lunch! When I was browsing the internet during my free hours (getting fewer every day) last week I came across this term (the original article is here from Saveur). I am not much of a cafeteria person. The Boston Globe cafeteria is fine but the food doesn’t taste like food, and […]

Homemade Granola Recipe

No matter how delicious the lunch that I prepare my husband is, he will never eat it. He is a die-hard lover of yogurt and granola. Even after dinner, if he is in the mood for dessert, he will have a bowl of granola and yogurt. I am not a granola […]

Spicy Savory Cookies for our anniversary/valentine

Very few girls are lucky to have a Valentine wedding but I did. It was a small wedding with just M and me in front of a Justice of the Peace. We wanted this wedding to be just ours and celebrate it in a unique and personal way. We had a social wedding in […]