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My first foray into cooking was in my High School years when cooking was all about trying out fancy exotic recipes from magazines with hard-to-get ingredients. The results sometimes were delightful but more often than not, pretty frustrating. It made me think that cooking doesn’t really have to be complicated. Good food is not necessarily food drowned in butter or floating in oil but more about using day to day ingredients easily available in your pantry to create dishes that impress your guests. Also food is for sustenance, not to give you a visit to the doctor, right? So with that said, if you want some fun with food and creativity, you have come to the right place.
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Beet Saag Chorchori
Chorchori is a traditional Bengali cooking technique rather than a single recipe. A dry, lightly mashed vegetable medley cooked slowly with minimal spices until the mixture becomes a cohesive whole, originates from the Bengali ethos of zero waste cooking. Beet greens, radish greens (mulo shaak), pumpkin leaves (kumro shaak) are all valuable seasonal produce. Here’s…
Bengali Ucche Lau Diye Mung Dal (Bitter Gourd and Bottle Gourd with Mung Dal)
This is an everyday Bengali classic dish- light, bitter, sweet, and deeply comforting all at once. This is also one of those dishes that shows how Bengali cooking balances flavors without cream, onions, or heavy masalas. Just a few ingredients, handled with care, results in a layered, complex, and soothing dish. It is perfect with…
Healthy Musoor Dal Recipe with Squash
Masoor dal is the quiet constant of Bengali kitchens. Unlike mung or toor dal, it cooks in a jiffy and is ideal for everyday cooking. In Bengal, it is often paired with vegetables like pumpkin, bottle gourd, spinach, stretching it into something deeply nourishing. This version leans into that comfort with layering in vegetables that…
Where can you reduce clutter in your life? Start with your mind. That’s where the heaviest accumulation lives. If it were possible to sweep out the debris of the day, the unnecessary replaying, the moments that don’t need to be revisited, dissected, or quietly embellished we’d already be living lighter. So much mental clutter comes…
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