Author: Dolphia Nandi Arnstein

Seafood

Shrimp potato curry

This week was very exciting for storyofcooks.com. First, Anu Saji won our yearly raffle competition and got her ‘Five Spice Chronicles’. She said she loved the recipes of the book. Second, another recipe got published in The Boston Globe. This recipe has been in our family for generations. My great-grandmom still makes it during Sankranti. I […]

Guest posts

Interview with Monica Bhide

Monica Bhide is an engineer turned writer based out of Washington, D.C. She has built a diverse and solid audience through the publication of three cookbooks, her short story collection, her successful website MonicaBhide.com, and is actively published in top tier media, including: Food & Wine, Bon Appétit, Saveur, The Washington Post, Health, The New York Times, […]

Ghugni
Durga Puja, Holidays, Lentils, Meat

Lentil meat soup – Ghugni

“Ghugni” or lentil meat soup is one of the top ten Bengali delicacies you have to try once in your life. Ma used to make it for my familiy at least once or twice a month. She prepares it in a vegetarian (with coconut, ginger et al.) and a non-vegetarian way. It is served […]

Cranberry Pistachio Biscotti
Desserts

Cranberry Pistachio Biscotti Recipe

When we visited M’s parents during Thanksgiving, I got a chance to know M’s Grammy’s sister, Aunt Thelma. She was a famous Broadway actor back in the 1930s. I googled Thelma Altman and found a very old picture of her. She is a very sophistocated woman and it did not take […]

Goat Meat Curry
Meat

Meat Curry

Finally, the holidays are over and our Boston traffic is back to normal. It was taking 15 minutes for us to get to work, but now it’s taking 30 minutes again. At the office everyone is back to work and there are no more cookies or candies everywhere. Like me, most […]

Turkish Tea with Smoke
Photography

52 Days of creative exposure

I have joined Simi Jois to do 52 days of creative exposure. We promised to click at least one image per week for 52 weeks. Here is our Facebook group, if you would like to contribute. We are there to help you to improve your creativity. I did not go […]