A Falguni platter: Cooking edible flowers
Falgun arrives in a flurry of yellow and I am pleased to share some popular Bengali recipes, in collaboration with Joyadrita Ragavendran Chatterjee, who shares her family specials from West Bengal.
9m ago
Recipes from around the world
The year 2024 arrived with a sudden cold wave that called for the warmest dishes one can conjure. As we bid adieu to this cold weather and look forward to the yellows of spring, we take advantage of the chilly evenings for the last of this season’s warm soups and pies. A Fearless Olive version of the recipes and a personal favourite to brighten your dinner tables. Have a lovely week!
9m ago
Delicious flavours from o par Bangla
This Durga Puja, I collaborated with Joyadrita Ragavendran Chatterjee from across the border to share some of her family favourites. Joyadrita grew up enjoying the culture of both East Bengal and West Bengal as her maternal side is from Bangladesh and her paternal side is from India.
1y ago
Recipes using Balsamic vinegar: Exploring its health benefits
From lowering blood sugar and pressure levels, increasing the ability to absorb vitamins in the body and reducing hypertension, balsamic vinegar denotes to the word balm-like. The following are some recipes that uses Balsamic vinegar.
1y ago
Meat recipes to try from around the world
Sometimes, after any enthusiastic grocery shopping, we are left with a lot of meat in the refrigerator. If you are tired of having meat dishes deshi style, these three recipes are the perfect cure for you.
1y ago
4 lamb recipes for Eid ul Azha
In our recipe column dedicated to the flavours of Eid, we invite you on a culinary journey through rich lamb dishes from around the world that will dazzle your taste buds.
1y ago
Recipes for Eid day special dishes
Allow me to navigate you through some of the most popular dishes eaten around the world to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr. From Anatolia to the Levant, we will rummage around our kitchen to look for ingredients that are readily available, to make something that offers your loved ones a different experience. Let the biriyanis and the shemai take a back seat for a change and dig into a large dish of rice and meat or get an overdose of Eid cookies. Above all, share your meals with loved ones and have a lovely Eid.
1y ago
Fusion Terminal – Bottling our local heritage
Bilimbi is a fruit unknown to many Bangladeshis; the same goes for jara lebu — a Sylheti citrus. Both these find a new avatar, along with local tomatoes, being transformed into sundried ones, coming together in a unique set of pickles from the house of Fusion Terminal.
3y ago
January 19, 2016
Winter Bounty - Vegetables Galore!
As winter chills set in and hot vapours rising from your bowl of soup are a welcome sight...
November 17, 2015
Go green, go coconutty
As the year draws to an end, here are some fun mocktails you can serve during the many weddings, parties and social events coming up.
September 22, 2015
Spice up your life!
“No man should die if he can afford cinnamon”… said someone in the 14th century! London dockyard workers were paid in cloves while the Roman soldiers were paid in salt, coining the term “a man worth his salt”.
September 15, 2015
Making the best of beef
We approach that time of year when the age old Abrahmic custom of slaughtering a sacrificial animal means loads of meat and nothing but the smell of meat cooking and a table creaking with delicious food.
September 8, 2015
More than just tea...
Enter the world of culinary delights where as a thoroughbred Bangladeshi, one would think we ace at pickling and know our achars well but wait… there is something called Tea pickle from across the Eastern borders in Myanmar!
August 25, 2015
The Fearless Olive
So as you relish your bhuna khichuris with fried eggplants and your kamranga bhorta, allow me to offer a few dishes that do justice to the weather and can satiate these rainy day cravings. And above all, dishes that are healthy!
June 16, 2015
Working up a salad
A vinaigrette is essentially a French dressing with three parts oil and one part vinegar in most cases that compose a dressing, which has the necessary grease to it and a touch of the ascorbic. Since the 19th century this has been
June 9, 2015
Toasting to your health
The sun enters the vernal equinox and our collective plight with summer begins as the days get longer and our Dhaka traffic jams leave us melting in the sweltering blaze!
April 14, 2015
A healthy twist to Pohela Baishakh
Of festivities and new beginnings, we welcome the first day of the Bangabdo 1422 with a splash of colours on our platter and tastes of the season to delight our palates.
March 31, 2015
The healthy Easter Sunday!
Of bunnies and hares and colourful eggs in a basket, Easter Sunday arrives in Bangladesh in all its glory.
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