a melange of recipes, cuisines and food stories and my adventures in the culinary world

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Spiced Pumpkin and sweet potato soup with toasted Almonds.

Spiced Pumpkin and sweet potato soup with toasted Almonds.

Its just raining Pumpkins everywhere in blogosphere.And the pumpkin bug has bit me too…though we Indians don’t celebrate the American Thanksgiving .But here it’s become kind of cool to celebrate Halloween,better known as the day of Dead.Every hotel and restaurant is throwing a Halloween themed par

Apple Cinnamon Chimichangas

Apple Cinnamon Chimichangas

Mexican burritos with a sweet and saucy apple pie filling, fried and dusted with cinnamon sugar.

Kadali Chakuli..eggless whole wheat banana pancakes…Odiya recipe with a contemporary touch.

Kadali Chakuli..eggless whole wheat banana pancakes…Odiya recipe with a contemporary touch.

An eggless wholewheat banana pancake recipe,a hit with the kids for sure.

Sunday style Chicken Curry…a taste of the Past!

Sunday style Chicken Curry…a taste of the Past!

Food and nostalgia go hand in hand together.Just the smell wafting from the kitchen is transporting me to those childhood Sundays when my Bappa ( father) would religiously leave the house early in the morning with a bag to the fresh produce market to grab the best,fleshy,tender chicken and to avoid

Carrot Cake with a Cream Cheese Frosting

Carrot Cake with a Cream Cheese Frosting

Carrot Cake recipe with a hint of walnuts and cinnamon and a tangy cream cheese frosting. Simple, Sweet, Moist and Flavourful.

Homemade Apple Sauce

Homemade Apple Sauce

With an abundance of apples in the house and after innumerable batches of Apple Pies and Apple Crumbles finally decided to freeze the apples in the form of sauce so that it can be used later when apples are not in season.Apple Sauce in my household gets used in the form of cakes or in tarts ,a tasty

Nutty prune Cake…after a long break

Nutty prune Cake…after a long break

 The cinnamon and the peanut butter combo imparts a nice unique flavour to the cake. The wholemeal flour with the nuts and prunes make it a healthy cake for the children,a must try and a sure hit!

Guchhi Dum Biryani(healthy version)

Guchhi Dum Biryani(healthy version)

A healthy version of delicious Mushroom Biriyani ,bursting with flavours and rustled up within an hour.

Iced Cajun Coffee

Iced Cajun Coffee

With the summer in, the temperatures soaring and the mercury rising with every passing day the only respite are the summer chillers .Nothing says summer like a desi lassi, healthy fruit laden shakes and smoothies,cool old fashioned lemonade,colourful juices or ice cold ,creamy coffee shakes.Today my

Entries for RCI Bengal

Entries for RCI Bengal

West Bengal is one of the Eastern states of India, the land of Ramakrishna Paramahansa,Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore,Amartya Sen…the list is endless, a state rich in cultural heritage, state teeming with people who are literary intellectuals, sports lovers, a place where India’s quest for


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