Holidays

I have summed up the dishes we make for and at our festivals like Thanksgiving, Hannukah, Christmas, Durga Puja or Diwali. Some of them are really super simple to make. If you’re interested you can get the taste of festivals at your home.

Desserts, Diwali, Durga Puja, Holidays

Sweet Coconut Dumplings – Pithe recipe

This recipe has been published by Boston Globe. Here is the link. Makar Sankranti is an important festival on the Hindu calendar because it is a celebration of the coming of spring. It always falls on the 14th day of January. In Bengal we celebrate it as harvest festival. We prepare some […]

kati roll
Appetizer/Street Food, Durga Puja, Holidays

Kolkata Street food – kati roll

There are some evenings, when Mr. Husband works really late and I get some time to go through my magazines. I call this time as system upgrade time of Dolphia. Some evenings, I go through my cookbooks and get ideas for dinner plan. I enjoy this little time just with […]

chai, pakoda
Appetizer/Street Food, Durga Puja, Holidays

Chai, Pakoda and Big Bang theory

What comes to your mind, when you think of chai? My friend Hershi, starts her day with black tea and drinks green tea whole day. When, Veronica, likes to have her chai as a dessert and relaxation drink, which means drink chai after coming back from work and enjoy it. There […]

Fish Chop/Kebab
Appetizer/Street Food, Durga Puja, Holidays, Seafood

World of Tuna

Early Saturday morning conversation between my mom and me : Me: Ma, what should I cook this weekend? Mom: What do you have? (I gave her a list of the things in my pantry and freezer.) Mom: Why don’t you make fish chops this week. She used to make fish chop […]

Egg Roll or chicken egg wrap
Appetizer/Street Food, Durga Puja, Holidays

Evening with egg roll

A decade back in 2003, I used to go to Park Circus  for my coaching classes. There was a roll corner next to my coaching class. I did not get a picture of that corner then, but I will when I will visit Kolkata again. They used to carry out it so […]