Spicy, sweet and sour Doi Maach. Bengali must-have fish curry for weddings, social functions and little girls with bad eyesight
October 9, 2007 – 10:14 am
Parcels of mustard-coated fish steamed in banana leaves for quiet, reflective evenings
September 6, 2007 – 6:11 am
Really simple grilled masala coated fish for really busy people
August 22, 2007 – 1:15 pm
Whole rainbow trout with a herb marinade for when recovery is of the essence
Finding love for cabbage with mother’s cabbage and prawn stir fry - Badha Kophir Dalna
My husband is soon to leave London for a three-week stay in Peru. This is a problem.
It’s been a while since I changed lightbulbs, used the hoover or fixed the fuse. I am also prone to leaving the iron on, back door open, forgetting my flat keys and/or mobile.
But the BIGGEST worry is that he’s [...]
Back to recipes after three Indian cooking lessons and I was a bit stuck for ideas. A bit of archive rekke to decide what to cook next revealed an abyssmal absence of fish dishes in my repertoire.
No suprise there considering I was virtually tortured with Bengali fish curry as a child.
See, I developed terrible eyesight [...]
December 15, 2006 – 10:48 am
The first recipe back has to start with prawns. I overdosed on prawns in India. We ate them grilled on the tandoor, curried and even cooked in dhal!
My recipe is for prawns cooked the Goan way. Goa needs no introduction for ravers, beach lovers and sun seekers. But for food lovers everywhere Goan grub is [...]
November 14, 2006 – 10:59 am
Yesterday, the guru of all blog gurus came over for dinner.
Hugh Fraser is the mother (maybe father) of all blog developers, a real blog consultant and my occasional tinkering technician.
The plan was that he would come over, I would teach him how to cook a chicken curry and then we would drink wine, chat and [...]
October 21, 2006 – 5:26 am
After another long week at work, Hubby and I decided to kick the shoes off and chill out on the couch last night. I decided to put Divya’s Prawn Biryani in a hurry recipe to the test. The words “in a hurry” really pressed my buttons, touched a nerve etc etc.
Biryani is one of the [...]