An Indian Mom's diary of recipes and food memories
Past week was fairly busy. S was travelling for business the entire week. As for me, it was more than usual work, errands, an injured right hand and two little bundles of energies to care for. The days all rolled by one after another in a jiffy. And Friday came […]
Confession time! I never got myself to love salads, util recently. In fact, I grew up loathing every sight of it on my dining table. The only time I admired them, was when I saw the amazing salad arts at wedding catering. And can’t tell you how blessed I felt […]
Chicken Cafreal is one real mouthwatering thing, I’m tellin’ ya! I fell in love with it in my twenties, and by God, I still love it so much. In it’s long absence, I get gustatory and olfactory hallucinations. No, I ain’t psychotic…but seriously….if I do not make this to feed myself each month, […]
“Kumro” in Bangla means pumpkin. And “Chechki” is what a Bengali would refer to, when a vegetable or an edible veggie skin or peel, has been slow fried and cooked with nothing but tempered seeds and salt, and often turmeric powder. The seeds in Chechki is generally black cumin (nigella, kala jeera, […]
Somethings are best kept simple, plain, minimal and easy. Natural beauty is most beautiful they say. And that’s true for our vegetables too. If they have a great natural flavors that can be enhanced with basic cooking, why should they always need a make-up of spices and seasonings? On the […]
Well not literally – I didn’t “smoke” cook the onions here! I mean, dry roasted onions like this gives them a super nice smoky taste and aroma 🙂 Try it with Roasted bottle gourd Biryani, and you’ll looovvveee it! So here’s what you need to do to make this lovely → Peel […]
Take an Apple round and red… Don’t slice down, slice through instead… Right inside it you will see, A star as pretty as can be! – Margaret Hillert’s Star Magic Thank you Margaret, I did exactly that! I tried to innovate and the “Star Magic” led me to make a beautiful […]
I was in India recently. It was a super short and rushed trip. With J’s one week spring break at school and husband-man’s leave-crisis, we could only steal 12 vacation days – travel time combined. After 5 long no-India years, we were ready to grab any chance that we’d get. […]
Life’s little pleasures are in the minutest of things, ones that are most trivial and most basic. They mean nothing at all, yet are everything to you. It has always been my way of life, to be close to “this existence”, as much as I can. However, sometimes down the […]
Probably more than half of a Bengali’s life is about fish…though many would swear it’s more than this share! They say “Machh-e Bhat-e Bangali” or a Bengali by Fish and Rice. But then, not every Fish and not every Rice. Rice here either means the Bengali parboiled rice or the […]
I am Mou – a Mom, wife, daughter, Pharmaceutical Consultant, Art enthusiast, Avid Traveler – and a Happy Chef at that – A foodie who cooks, writes, photographs her food for this blog. OnceUponASupper is a journal of my potpourri of recipes and belly good food-y tales. Thanks for stopping by. Have a delicious stay here & dig in!
