Weekends, at least for the first few months of my stay in Guwahati, were lacklustre and ...
Indian Recipes
Til diya Murgi Mangxo (Chicken with Black Sesame Seeds, Assamese Style)
This was my first month in Guwahati. Lack of opportunities in my sleepy hometown Karimganj on the ...
Masor Bilahi Tenga (Fish Curry with Tomatoes, Assamese Style)
My kitchen has been a mad frenzy all week, I have been whipping up my favorite Assamese delicacies ...
Aloo Aru Bengena Pitika (Mashed Potatoes and Roasted Eggplant Mash, Assamese Style)
A friend of mine and I decide to catch up over lunch. It's over a decade that she had ...
Mati Mahor Dali (Split Black Gram / Urad Dal, Assamese Style)
Growing up in a sleepy hamlet in far-flung Assam was bliss. In the sylvan lap of nature. By the lazy ...
Anarosh Ilish (Hilsa with Pineapple)
Manikkaka looks up anxiously at the charcoal-scarred sky. It is barely nine am this June morning, ...
Ilish Shukto (Hilsa with a Medley of Vegetables)
Ilish Shukto ? My cousin-in-law gawks at me in stunned disbelief. A pristine shimmering-silver ...
Aam Bhindi Shorshe Ilish (Hilsa with Okra, Green Mangoes and Mustard)
I remember a rainy afternoon when Mashi cooked Ilish, an overnight catch from Kolaghat which the ...
Tangra Maachher Chorchori (Tangra Maach Cooked with a Medley of Vegetables)
I wake up to the pitter-patter of raindrops on my window pane. A grey morning. A truant sun ...
Doodh Pabda (Pabda with Milk)
There's something romantic about a grey overcast morning. The sulking clouds. The drunken ...
Shahi Beguni (Special Eggplant Fritters)
I have never quite been able to explain why Puri holds such a special place in my heart. May be ...
Jhinge Shukto (Ridgegourd and Bittergourd Curry)
I hate bittergourd. I throw up the most ingenious of tantrums the moment bittergourd turns up on my ...