Gourmets and gourmands congregate in kitchens- as close to the food as possible!
In this blog, I would like to post recipes from my kitchen- which have been greatly influenced by my grandmother Amodini Dasgupta's kitchen and and by my mother Nilima Gupta's kitchen. Spurred on by my dear husband Dinu and my sweet son Deven, I have puttered around in the kitchen for many years.
Taking a leaf out of my grandmother's and mother's culinary book- I have striven to ensure that every meal should look like the food was cooked just for that event. Perhaps, that has been necessitated by both Dinu and Deven looking upon left overs with such dismay as to create great guilt ( totally unjustified, of course) in my heart.
Nevertheless, creating new dishes out of the old, by small sleights of hand, and making inventive uses of whatever is available have been the forte of Bengali kitchens for aeons.
The frugal kitchen spurns nothing; making use of all parts of anything edible.
I seek to tie up all these thoughts together with newer recipes acquired by travel and experiments.
'Cholo Khai Giya' without wasting a moment further!
