My journey of reinventing traditional Indian desserts continue. Growing up in Assam, the state was traditionally not big on desserts and confectionery unless it can to ‘pitha and laru’ during bihu. The one dessert which however was served especially as part of the wedding feasts was Mihidana and cream. It was q very Upper Assam,…
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Continue ReadingI have been in search of tender rattan shoots, known as ‘baet aga’ in Bengali and ‘betgaaj’ in Assamese, for a few years now. A rare vegetable that I last ate a few decades back, and have been unable to find since. The shoots are available for a short season, and only in the few…
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Continue ReadingI have had a love-hate relationship with kamranga or star fruit. As a child who loved anything sour, I loved kamranga. It was sour. Juicy. Looked beautiful. This love lasted till I was in standard VIII and had jaundice! One of the things prescribed to me was glasses of star fruit juice and the raw…
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Continue ReadingWe all have a few dishes that we ran fastest from and with age we crave for them. It isn’t any surprise that most of these are dishes were fed to us in the name of health and nutrition! Which young mind ever thinks it will get sick and old one day!!! But nostalgia and…
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Continue ReadingThe Gora Sahib’s Table – Food from the Raj and Cup of Tea There is not a better day than to have come back from the most fulfilling and emotional event that I have done and to sit down to write this post. Today is Didubhai’s birthday, but her identity should not be confined in…