TODAY’S MENU: GOROM BHAT AR SORSHE BATA DIYE ILLISH MACH (BOILED RICE AND HILSHA FISH-IN-MUSTARD-SAUCE)

Its most likely that every Bengali knows the recipe of Hilsha in mustard sauce (though I did not till a few years back and used to leaf through the cook book), so I am not including any recipe here. Nevertheless if any of my visitors wishes for its recipe, please leave a note here. I would love to share it with you. Happy eating!!!

SUNDAY LUNCH ER NEMONTONNO

CURRY FOR THE SOUL

“ Tor okhane jakhon khub thanda poreche, takhon dupurbela rode pith die komlalebu khaa r Sharodindu por.…….Kolkatai ekhon thanda porbo prbo korchhe, raate fan na chalalei bhalo hoy, bhorbela besh murisuri die shute hoy. R sondher dike ekta kuasha kuasha byapar o hochche.”

THE VICIOUS CYCLE OF LEFTOVER INGREDIENTS

So Bijoya is over and so is Lakshmi Pujo. And I am left with lots of desiccated coconut, I have bought for those Naarus. If I don’t use them right away, pretty soon they’ll start smelling like “hair oil”.

Speaking of hair oil, childhood memory of those tin containers of “Shalimar Coconut Oil” with green labels showing half of a juicy coconut and a coconut tree in the background, came in. Was there any lion or tiger on the label too? I could not remember so well…… do you?

SUBHO BIJOYA!

It has been quite a while since my last post.
In the meantime, a lot of things happened…….I resigned from my job, we went to Kolkata, we relocated to uk, we stayed at a lodge for 3 weeks where chicken ticca masala is a starter and green salad is a main entrée, we moved in to our flat, we tried to unpack things and get settled down but finding it too backbreaking, we gave up…………….

O VISITOR WHERE ART THOU!!!!!

It is all about presentation I guess. Otherwise why I keep visiting my blog repeatedly – though I know for sure that it is populated by a solitary post which I already read up 71 times.

I feel that I am completely taken in by the polka dots and the beige background and the contrasting font colour and the side bar and all other goodies of the blog. Yesterday the urge to revisit the blog was so tremendous that I have to block my IP address so that the Stat Counter does not count in my visits (as the number on the counter kept on increasing very deceptively). And now I am upset because the counter does not have much counting to do after that.

WHY THIS BLOG IN THE FIRST PLACE

It is not that I can’t write good Bangla, or that I express myself better in English than in Bangla but as I tried writing the first few lines of this post in Romanized Bengali, I did not find it very easy going. So I am starting my blog in English but as soon as I feel comfy I would turn to Bengali. Anyway ja bolchilam.