I'd written about prawns before. But when it comes to prawns, shrimps…
Category: Food Stories
Bottoms Up!
With just a big fat super ripe banana, a few scoops of whey protein and milk, I worked out my Bottoms-Up-Whey-Banana-Punch. My friends call it cheating. They suspect I add other ‘secret’ sacrilegious ingredients (read, dollops of ice cream, chocolate etc.). I chuckle.
Salad Days
Salad days need not be boring. Nor insipid. Nor colorless. Here’s a sneak peek into my utterly colorful and scrumptious “salad days”
Not Plebeian at Heart: The Simple Delight of ‘Kochu Shaag’ / Colocasia Esculenta
After having 'Kochu shaag' for one whole week (& still…
Daab Chingri
No, please do not try translating this one to the hopelessly generic ‘Jumbo Prawns Cooked in Tender Coconut Shell.’ Like a Wienerschnitzel is a Wienerschnitzel in Bavaria and Colombo alike and baklavas, baklavas in Istanbul and in Sydney, let the Daab Chingri remain just so wherever you may be cooking/relishing it.
Of Ghosts & Pickles
Once upon a time, there was a big, bushy jujube tree in…
In the Sweetness of Life, Let There Be ‘Shondesh’!
The shondesh – cottage cheese fudge – was a delightful invention inasmuch…
If Winter Comes, Can Nolen Gur be Far Behind?…
…No, atleast, not in Bengal! Although now available throughout the year, the…
Spiced Rum Fruitcake – Anyone?
In my warm, wet, sometimes humid part of the world, I love…
‘Where there’s a Whisk, there’s a Way!’
'Where there's a whisk, there's a way!' reads a kitchen quote on…