Machher Jhal/Fish in Spicy Sauce

Fish cooked in a spicy sauce, flavored with nigella seeds, hot green peppers and cooked in mustard oil is a recipe very close to my heart. Memories churn, my heart and body warm up, images slide by and the taste lingers as I savor the peppery fish curry with some hot steamed rice on […]

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Pickled Chili Peppers

This pickle is not for the fainthearted. It breathes fire, crunches with a bite, smells of abundant spices and tastes fantastic. This one cannot be compared to the pretty peppers soaked in vinegar and spice; they will get you teary eyed if you are not used to the heat, but will tantalize your senses […]

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Mushroom Pepper Fry

Few fresh bell peppers, a whole basket full of hot chili peppers, some tomatoes & bitter gourds are a few things that I harvested from my yard a couple of days back; fresh, glossy & happy produce of my efforts through the summer.

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Baingan Patiala (Spicy Stir Fried Eggplants)

Hooked on Heat is this amazing blog, & hooked to it I am. I am glad that Hooked on Heat got selected for the T&T, for this is what made me visit Meena for the first time.. She must have stopped blogging around the time I started, so I never got the opportunity […]

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Cauliflower with Nigella (Kalonji)

This is one bowlful where the simplicity leads the flavors, a very Bengali recipe, made with very Bengali seasonings & cooked by not so Bengali husband. This is a recipe well loved & perfected by my hubby after many trials. The taste of childhood still lingers with him, […]

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