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MULTIGRAIN ATTA NIMKI
After over a week, I got back to writing a blog post. I would have started next week, then tomorrow starts "Ganesh Utsav", many Indians would worship Lord Ganesha for few days starting tomorrow. I...
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ECHORER KALIA
I was all set to blog about a Garbanzo Beans & Minced Meat dish today. Then a death news jeopardised all my plan, I felt let me not do a non-vegetarian share today, let me pay homage to the...
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BEGUN ALOO DIYE SEA BASS ER JHAL
Sea Bass comes regular at this home ever since we relocated to this island from Kolkata. In Kolkata, we hardly ate Bhetki; the nearest family member of sea bass or barramundi. They say they are almost...
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OIL FREE MUTTON KEEMA & GARBANZO BEANS CURRY
For a couple of days now I am wanting to share this non-vegetarian curry recipe using minced meat and Kabuli chana. Actually, we do not get that breed of mutton here that we are used to eating in...
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CINNAMON & NUTMEG FLAVOURED OATS APPLE CAKE
I really wished to blog about this oats & apple cake today which I prepared last Friday. I am usually very prompt and eager to share the recipe of the cooked dishes that become an instant hit in...
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DAL KANCHAKOLAR TIKKI
This was again one evening I wished to feed my family a vegetarian meal. That was an evening three months back. The plan to prepare something different with raw bananas was there for quite sometime. I...
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PEPE CHECHKI
I think I have been trying to blog about this particular dish with raw papaya & coconut since the initial days of blogging. Each time something or the other was stopping me. My first picture of it...
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CHALER GURO O SUJIR HALKA MISHTI
This year, the Hindu Bengalis are having two major occasions on the same day, that is today. They both are yearly occasions but each year they are held on different dates but during the Autumn season...
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TOMATO PEYAZ ALPO MOSHOLA DIYE POMFRET ER PATLA JHOL
With severe pain on my left shoulder & arm and on my right gum, I can only think of an easy share. My readers may think why I sit with the pain and do not go for a treatment. What I tell my man, I...
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KASURI METHI TANDOORI MOSHOLAI MURGI
I am truly very busy today. I have two friends coming over for lunch tomorrow, I did some preparation work; the sandesh & cake, those which would be offered as sweet something to end the meal with...
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BROCCOLI BEGUN SHEEM DIYE SHUTKI MAACH
I will not say my family has a recipe with broccoli & Dried Bombay Duck for ages now. It is so that on that day few florets of broccoli lay dry in the refrigerator. We are not broccoli lovers at...
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BREAD & VEGETABLES SNACK MEAL
I was in a dilemma what to share today in the Blog. What I wanted is not matching what I am going to share. I do keep cooking & clicking; doing it less for a month now though. Eversince the son...
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SHUGANDHI MOSHOLA MIX
I am not the kind who prepares various spice blends and stocks at home. In fact, none in my family branches are in the habit of preparing dry spice mixture; they use "shil-nora", the Bengali style...
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CHICKEN & EGG FRIED RICED
Most of the afternoons, I am not keeping well. Headache starts in the morning, drags on until I apply some balms or the bowels get clear. On such days, I do not take the risk of going for a walk, that...
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BHAJA MOSHOLA OATS DAL SAVOURY BAKE
Doing a savoury cake was a wish for sometime; ever since I came across the mentions of Handvo, Muthia, etc. I mean, when we Bengalis cook the "dhoka mix", it seems something like this before frying....
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KANCHAKOLA ALOO DIYE RUI / KATLAR JHOL
I am too tired to start with a blog post at this time of the day, 5:10pm it is! I walked to the next station earlier the day, called Cristine to catch the train to join me. We see, all the nurseries...
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LEFTOVER JILIPI CHALER GURO DIYE PUDDING
It is a beautiful "shorot er akash" today. Autumnal sky in Kolkata used to be brighter than usual, with a bit of cold feel; with lack of proficiency in English, I cannot explain the term "shirshirey...
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BIRYANI FLAVOURED FULKOPIR DALNA O CHICKEN RICE BOWL
I am supremely excited about going for the pedicure & manicure session this afternoon; after quite a few months; they badly require to be pampered. I am in a hurry, yet I wish to share this...
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ALOO PEYAZ BHAJA
It's been long, I wished to blog about this potato-onion fry every Bengali homes perhaps used to cook at least twice or thrice a week for breakfast. It goes with any kind of Bengali / Indian breads,...
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THANKUNI PATAR BORA
I read Thankuni Pata is called Asiatic / Indian Pennywort in English! Some parts of India call it Gotu Kola. When I was in Kolkata, I did not feel any urge to know about the English name of this...
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