Creating masterpieces with everyday ingredients.
In my Aloo Pitha recipe which is my first post about Pitha, I have mentioned how Pitha is something which not only addresses the sweet craving inside us, but also represents the long and hopefully not lost tradition of celebrating winter harvest in Eastern parts of India. The tradition of the entire family and extended …
As Adam Osborne rightly said, ‘The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can’t learn anything from being perfect’. I actually understood his words in the truest sense, when I made these Narkeler Sandesh or the Bengali Coconut sweetmeat, and I almost screwed them up, had not been my mother-in-law who came …
There is a reason why a box of sweet or ‘mooh meetha’ is so important in our culture. Why any course is incomplete without concluding the same with a dessert. The reason has to be strong, or else the mere mention of Bengali Roshogullas, or Mathura ke Pede, or Mysore Pak, would not have pushed …
Well, finally we are in the time of lock down, where everyone of us are learning to manage our life with limited resources. So, with this limited resource, I have tried my hand to prepare our all time favourite and ever delicious, sweet Malpuas. Although the requirement to limit my resource for preparing these malpuas …
Not sure if I am the only one in the world who had this notion that traditional food, or to be precise, the recipes that were originated in my homeland long long ago – were either too complicated to make or time consuming, and the ingredients required to prepare those dishes are too exotic to …
Yes I know this recipe is very common. And I know almost every Indian knows how to make this epic sweet delicacy. Still, without having ‘Gajar Ka Halwa’ in my blog, my blog will be somehow incomplete. I also must admit, the recipe I am going to share for ‘Gajar Ka Halwa’, is not out …
‘Pitha’ the name itself brings so many fond memories of my home, my childhood and my hidden cooking genes 😉 . Well, first of all I am sure many of you are wondering what I am talking about, and may not be use to this sweet delicacy from east, which is an intrinsic part of …