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Kolkata, is a&nbsp; rectangular shaped flaky, crispy, fried bread with a filling of eggs, seasoned and cooked ground meat, onions and green chilies. It is served with a spicy potato curry (aloo r tarkari), slices of red onions and sometimes ketchup. 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Made with flattened rice, called chire or poha, the Bengali version is studded with vegetables like potatoes, cauliflower, carrots and sweet peas in winter. Garnished with fried peanuts or </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/430800598149800354/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2022/01/chirer-pulao-bengali-poha-recipe.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/430800598149800354'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/430800598149800354'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2022/01/chirer-pulao-bengali-poha-recipe.html' title='Chirer Pulao | Poha the Bengali way'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivLUEiLj7a1N1-hOm2CGaXy08sGpQ83Tlnx-3yX8A4AJxzMvJBrf7kXyPR5tjMTnz7wsaEiDaB_AzZligPpjEFpTv26R2bNDw6rMn4S288QMlRm_SyMRVYdY_ca4Dls5vbZRoYf86Qtu4laErt3LtHektVl9C97HuAQYR4_oqqsYGE9W_Ly3w=s72-w480-h640-c" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-7888400026755433423</id><published>2020-04-20T22:10:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2020-04-20T22:10:11.157-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Non-traditional Bengali"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="NonVeg"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Recipe from Friends"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Shrimp"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snacks"/><title type='text'>Doma Wang's Prawn Toast -- easy, quick delicious</title><summary type="text">
Prawn Toast
I didn't know Doma Wang until last year. I knew she was from Kalimpong and her restaurant Blue Poppy was famous for its momos and chilli pork, but I didn't "know" know her.
Then last year on Mother's Day, I wanted to send my Mom some food from a restaurant in Kolkata. She was not able to venture out much due to her knee pain and I thought it would be a nice surprise. I also </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/7888400026755433423/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2020/04/doma-wangs-prawn-toast-easy-quick.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/7888400026755433423'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/7888400026755433423'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2020/04/doma-wangs-prawn-toast-easy-quick.html' title='Doma Wang's Prawn Toast -- easy, quick delicious'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizw0JEVG6K41C3Vo5dgMt2ILS_T08YwMuOyvonK5kIYuE_OH_7HDGdaqcjBnlmcNylJYksK6z5m8XvbruoQXNYAYOtRX94wJThV8b4jVzTQOGGXOEe4hTbnLOQiJsAqtG8woSyXQ/s72-c/Prawntoast1.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-988780567566646355</id><published>2020-03-30T14:06:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2020-04-21T13:13:26.228-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali cuisine"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mine"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Phuchka"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snacks"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Traditional Bengali"/><title type='text'>ChurMur from Calcutta's Phuchkawala</title><summary type="text">
ChurMur from Calcutta's Phuchkawala
Churmur | Kolkata PhuchkawalaChurmur&nbsp;is a very popular road side snack in Bengal, served by the Phuchkawalas
We have been in official quarantine now for just over a week. The schools have been shut down for two weeks.
Online classes are going fine. For the high-schooler, it is more regimented with defined periods from 8AM to 1PM every weekday. She has</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/988780567566646355/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2020/03/churmur-from-calcuttas-phuchkawala.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/988780567566646355'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/988780567566646355'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2020/03/churmur-from-calcuttas-phuchkawala.html' title='ChurMur from Calcutta's Phuchkawala'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgefKmxhi0TFkcgXUV5EBaqwtiDZhUR9hsxDaVAz1XKj1MtWW90qO7Z5yEglAnyndRzVzpi4tLBcg6XvTNYhMb7SOXnlLayyc9QX5gH_r2nybouCvLUdYQ9fJt845WD0BOfSAP8PQ/s72-c/ChurMur4.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-5817761451556189585</id><published>2017-03-16T23:03:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2017-03-16T23:03:50.568-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali cuisine"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali Recipes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ma"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Shingara"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snacks"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Traditional Bengali"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Veg"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Veggie"/><title type='text'>Bengali Shingara -- not a samosa</title><summary type="text">There are samosas,the unique conical shaped Indian pies(in lack of a better word) made with pastry dough and stuffed with spiced potatoes, peas or mince meat and fried in hot oil, and then there are shingaras, the Bengali version of the same. Now don't you go and offend a Bengali, by saying that a shingara is same as samosa but only smaller. Never say that!
Bengalis are very possessive </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/5817761451556189585/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2017/03/bengali-shingara-not-samosa.html#comment-form' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/5817761451556189585'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/5817761451556189585'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2017/03/bengali-shingara-not-samosa.html' title='Bengali Shingara -- not a samosa'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxf0kOos95Z00n4phKxy17LmrW4Ar7GmGKSZ1_LIinG1fXwXN54g1-Wc9MYSWp9gufdsBHI9NoqxgcBdN3h55yZ7RZ0UzCnyZPC4HmOhxvbpOIRiEPb50OctPVcbHMuAocAPI_6Q/s72-c/Shingara8.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-7694103561987841114</id><published>2017-01-28T19:10:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2022-01-17T12:06:39.019-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali cuisine"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Festival"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Recipe from Friends"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snacks"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Traditional Bengali"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Veggie"/><title type='text'>Sanhita's Nonta Bhapa Pithe | steamed rice flour dumplings</title><summary type="text">Nonta Bhapa Pithe&nbsp; | Jhaal Pithe | Steamed Savory rice flour DumplingsPithe is reminiscent of the times when paddy was harvested in the months of December-January and the new crop was celebrated by making dishes that used rice, date palm jaggery(khejur gur also collected in the winter months) and coconut. There are a variety of pithe and puli made from these ingredients - patishapta, doodh </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/7694103561987841114/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2017/01/nonta-bhapa-pithe-steamed-dumplings.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/7694103561987841114'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/7694103561987841114'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2017/01/nonta-bhapa-pithe-steamed-dumplings.html' title='Sanhita's Nonta Bhapa Pithe | steamed rice flour dumplings'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCck_EwwHivXnj1KnUu_vQTdnJChp7Lq8BdebcRoei_zaim6T1rCW69XmcY-jyhaHhZ9NkKf-pA2Pp6kujl0lNjqIzDFw_-x_-zGs4RFnCTk6Uv9Cl1dADmngFSlfe-xxfQ-eDO7sV-WVfAs9wbyHIn_32YhNshkg7iEGI_N-GXw0PRF2C2m4=s72-w480-h640-c" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-1840589900061485001</id><published>2017-01-14T15:08:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2017-01-14T15:08:16.609-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali cuisine"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Dessert"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Festival"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ma"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snacks"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Traditional Bengali"/><title type='text'>Pyarakia or Gujiya -- sweet and savory</title><summary type="text">
I had no intentions of making anything for Sankranti. As I always say, I don't want to eat any more sweet in January and the only things &nbsp;I can make for Poush Parbon are sweet -- Paati Sapta and Gokul Pithe. I am not confident to make the puli pithe, seddho pithe or any other kind of pithe. Then last night I was talking to my Mom and I was ho-humming over whether I should make Koraishutir</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/1840589900061485001/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2017/01/pyarakia-or-gujiya-sweet-and-savory.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/1840589900061485001'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/1840589900061485001'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2017/01/pyarakia-or-gujiya-sweet-and-savory.html' title='Pyarakia or Gujiya -- sweet and savory'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg31bWgw5u8epospNTayB5E-Cwm-mia0MD31sqPkspRgFds1JPBIxyQYTw2BF0PL5SqgwE1ogUgPZPpiI5Vl4epXCD73RTDcALUbhwjvcO27VL7D5B5gXiKFEsRT4uFivchju20dA/s72-c/Pyaraki7.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-4508376347916324519</id><published>2016-07-06T23:42:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2016-07-07T07:53:11.104-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali cuisine"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali Recipes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Fish"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ma"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Shrimp"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Traditional Bengali"/><title type='text'>Chingrir Bora -- Shrimp Fritters</title><summary type="text">
It was a hot, hot day today. Temperature soared to the 90s. There was not a speck of rain anywhere.
It was also the day of Ratha Yatra. The day in the month of Ashada, when the monsoons have arrived in the plains of Odissa and Bengal, and the day on which the deities of Lord Jagannatha, Balaram and Subhadra are taken to their aunt's house in a regal chariot.
My girls don't know much </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/4508376347916324519/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2016/07/chingrir-bora-shrimp-fritters.html#comment-form' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/4508376347916324519'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/4508376347916324519'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2016/07/chingrir-bora-shrimp-fritters.html' title='Chingrir Bora -- Shrimp Fritters'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhik7BQFUDxzpqjBoN98R0OAGyEO0kvCpYHkV524Gdua3HH7ScMFu0Uhgrgi81VNqi1fTCP_4e02VIEHX1GTgBLhPeHi1-9RwQzEDFxpJDvax-WynqAkcQFVCzj-8nI3eWttahf9A/s72-c/ChingriBora3.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-1029280434673449125</id><published>2015-04-27T22:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2015-04-27T22:40:06.954-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="A-Z of Bengali cuisine"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali cuisine"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Recipe from Friends"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Traditional Bengali"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Veg"/><title type='text'>Somnath's Raasta'r Ghugni -- Ghugni from the street</title><summary type="text">
Bengali Ghugni
Ghugni or Ghoognee is a very very popular snack in Bengal and in parts of Bihar and Orissa. It is made with dried white peas and cooked with myriad spices including Bhaja Masla.While the Northern India has its Chhole, Bengal has its Ghugni.
But as a child growing up in a Bengali home, I never liked Ghugni much. Our neighbor Jain Auntie's deep brown Chhole is what I salivated </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/1029280434673449125/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2015/04/bengali-ghugni-or-ghoognee.html#comment-form' title='18 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/1029280434673449125'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/1029280434673449125'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2015/04/bengali-ghugni-or-ghoognee.html' title='Somnath's Raasta'r Ghugni -- Ghugni from the street'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDyTVEfzAsZO1fhk8qJ-VK35zPy1xPQRCd1cmPyHN_M2n-pZhjK_H15Tque2pnDoPbtiEMdg6YKaS-yDTc2ilOvE5UWyPEfDDUy6WSbdI8b7qKD06mVFpnFwGpg0YSUpiwfXIw2Q/s72-c/Ghugni2.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>18</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-1347489480305297282</id><published>2015-04-20T21:28:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2015-04-20T22:58:13.192-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kids"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kids Menu"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Non Bong"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="NonVeg"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Vacation"/><title type='text'>Savory Puff Tartlets for snack -- on Spring break</title><summary type="text">
I don't think I have ever written here about the trips, travels or vacations we take as a family. I don't fancy myself as a travelogue writer. I am never going to be in that high echelon. I haven't even read any travelogues in the recent years. If you have, can you recommend some?
Most of our vacations these days are planned around what people are saying on TripAdvisor. The times when the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/1347489480305297282/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2015/04/savory-puff-tartlets-for-snack-on.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/1347489480305297282'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/1347489480305297282'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2015/04/savory-puff-tartlets-for-snack-on.html' title='Savory Puff Tartlets for snack -- on Spring break'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-V21hRrWwpUAC4ZfmAYWwbmNG-UNxbzp6g3tWJEdDmws0im_GYHSPtJUyPFYzcLVm1dWcPCXUWFDfYhfFqKD46NHWvhpeGoIyG_2CW3Lk2Pq81mWf_yfheDCXvu7pBm1eWuWtdA/s72-c/OuterBanks14.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-3516475834488848081</id><published>2015-04-01T21:59:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2015-04-01T22:10:13.925-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="A-Z of Bengali cuisine"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali Recipe Book"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali Recipes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Traditional Bengali"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Veg"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Veggie"/><title type='text'>Fuluri or Phuluri ~ on the trail of a fried snack</title><summary type="text">Let me jog your memory and remind you of the A-Z of Bengali Cuisine that I have been half-heartedly attempting since last year. I mean my heart is fully into it but I keep falling back in chronicling the recipes.
Anyway,let me remind you that around November last year, we were stuck at the Letter "F". Not the word, the letter. The reader's choice popular awards demanded "F for Fuchka", "F for </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/3516475834488848081/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2015/04/fuluri-phuluri-Bengali-fried-snack.html#comment-form' title='16 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/3516475834488848081'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/3516475834488848081'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2015/04/fuluri-phuluri-Bengali-fried-snack.html' title='Fuluri or Phuluri ~ on the trail of a fried snack'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_TUWEg5rxIT0MZv6iTcb_YR1UZCRCVHWr-uP97V8Drqb-nTUP8Vr4idyrlPp_IeT2EbQA4UMsqlyQsq22-Se1SByxGY8Kcx_osT-0gtXEzaINMzNtu3uJBSwGQ08LKjRF3W9htQ/s72-c/Fuluri6.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>16</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-6593572411447438041</id><published>2014-11-22T00:04:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2014-11-22T00:07:35.737-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="A-Z of Bengali cuisine"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali cuisine"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali Recipes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Phuchka"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Traditional Bengali"/><title type='text'>Phuchka na Fuchka -- street food in the house</title><summary type="text">The House usually lies empty at ten in the morning.
Quiet.
Except for the sounds that the house makes.
Creak of the wood frames.
Squeaks in the attic.
Hiss of the heating pipes that run unseen.
Rattle of the shingles.
Murmur of the wind across the glass window panes.
Ten is a time for the house to be by itself, to do as it pleases. Probably it soaks itself in the winter sun, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/6593572411447438041/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2014/11/phuchka--golgappa-kolkata-street-food.html#comment-form' title='16 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/6593572411447438041'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/6593572411447438041'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2014/11/phuchka--golgappa-kolkata-street-food.html' title='Phuchka na Fuchka -- street food in the house'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn_VqfIY9NfBpPCShIJij0ql39Usn_jdMlikzSUUGKKBs9YQbUAOsWplgCNAXP4d6GIvABcV-i0xr82m2Ui_EY6LcGJ2aAy1Y-9qTy-bukwFNgJLDkvWu2sEPDshMUs_x7YM7Dww/s72-c/Phuchka1.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>16</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-6889517446899463508</id><published>2014-11-18T22:55:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2014-11-18T22:59:58.659-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="A-Z of Bengali cuisine"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali cuisine"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali Recipe Book"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Fish"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="NonVeg"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Traditional Bengali"/><title type='text'>Fish Batter Fry or Fish Orly -- Bengali Style</title><summary type="text">I think I have said a million times on my blog, that I have spent a big chunk of my growing up years outside Kolkata. And by outside, I do not mean merely the suburbs, the once quiet localities where now the city has encroached with malls et al. But I talk about&nbsp; places still further, where if you boarded the express train at night after dinner, you would wake up just outside Kolkata with </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/6889517446899463508/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2014/11/fish-batter-fry-fish-orly-bengali.html#comment-form' title='14 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/6889517446899463508'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/6889517446899463508'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2014/11/fish-batter-fry-fish-orly-bengali.html' title='Fish Batter Fry or Fish Orly -- Bengali Style'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdZv9AxBbTBIOnbVP0o3HUkLq-TgF0LBbKuCLVXa6ls-xdpk9RuZWcjZ19F3hzgYl8RcmtB92R4rfZliws1AQvCx8JYlCMnPKSkz2n7rXRy0J5xvh7BG_Yxn7FMs9GJ3ffn3IPZg/s72-c/FishOrly2.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-301164793085348563</id><published>2014-10-27T23:40:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2014-10-27T23:42:04.433-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali Recipes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Chicken"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Eggs"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="NonVeg"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Traditional Bengali"/><title type='text'> Kolkata Egg Chicken Roll -- Quick-easy version</title><summary type="text">
IBM's Watson is being consulted by chefs to suggest new and exciting recipes. It can help in situations where you have people with dietary restrictions or in case of food shortage. Given a set of ingredients and the person's dietary restrictions Watson apparently creates and suggests recipe, by analyzing the key flavor compounds in the ingredients.
I am very very piqued to send off an e-mail </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/301164793085348563/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2014/10/Kolkata-egg-chicken-roll.html#comment-form' title='15 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/301164793085348563'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/301164793085348563'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2014/10/Kolkata-egg-chicken-roll.html' title=' Kolkata Egg Chicken Roll -- Quick-easy version'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoIgqxqpG6VVE8MQMV_oK5Ycfxg1AAJzyjkW80wUz4HoIUk-kiL2mym2-iX7LKpy70VGa4jqFWKT8si77pmt_dEBL_rlNTMgpJGupNedzorCXYDiPk-s-ZuJMuH-KDYrf7bzo2Uw/s72-c/EggChickenRoll1.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>15</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-2243564003627514443</id><published>2014-07-24T18:16:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2014-07-24T18:16:07.048-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Healthy Eats"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kids"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kids Menu"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mine"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Veggie"/><title type='text'>Vegetable Tikkis or Croquettes -- Kids Summer Snacks</title><summary type="text">One month of summer holidays is already over, and though I wonder how time flew so quickly, in reality quite a few things were done.
The most important was Big Sis getting her Black Belt in Taekwondo. They had tested just before the vacation and the rank ceremony was around end of June. While Big Sis is now a certified Black belt, Little Sis who was very reluctant in the beginning classes is now</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/2243564003627514443/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2014/07/vegetable-tikkis-or-croquettes-kids.html#comment-form' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/2243564003627514443'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/2243564003627514443'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2014/07/vegetable-tikkis-or-croquettes-kids.html' title='Vegetable Tikkis or Croquettes -- Kids Summer Snacks'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg76vSrcWv7PkNDTza6kdOHAJuy8GN7EC8h7O6B5mEnxZbt4V0lfzNQMXMSEV3KxnT78NbiQfxKecB0cB6YY7PNViQVud2yVb9RpCkOqc59Zyr2ZKWF6nyCfa5C5udLnpO6zLm7A/s72-c/VegTikkiSnack3.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-8332126205295118977</id><published>2014-07-14T23:31:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2021-02-07T23:11:53.423-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali cuisine"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali Recipes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Eggs"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ma"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="NonVeg"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Traditional Bengali"/><title type='text'>Dim er devil -- deviled eggs Bengali style</title><summary type="text">
One good thing that has come out of my attempt to do A-Z of Bengali Cuisine is to cook Bengali dishes which I might have forgotten about or which I might not have cooked otherwise. So, thinking of the next letter "D", it struck me that I have never posted a Dim er devil (Deemer Devil) recipe. Actually I have not even made a Dimer devil in the last 8 years. And before that maybe once. Bad track</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/8332126205295118977/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2014/07/dim-er-devil-deviled-eggs-bengali-style.html#comment-form' title='14 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/8332126205295118977'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/8332126205295118977'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2014/07/dim-er-devil-deviled-eggs-bengali-style.html' title='Dim er devil -- deviled eggs Bengali style'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Zhw5K2iGwxjf7rEh9uylVDIFhKpILvVhUac0oG2FaZalnod3fmypJ1xCP4Mwlrz8NFF4H5QAg_O6wRhWhZa0u1Usa-e8x9ABs-qKz3gt8IEsfKFB551QfOwVwfZgAcY4ccfeUA/s72-c/DimerDevil5.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-1753841455893875690</id><published>2014-06-26T16:54:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2014-06-26T16:54:25.550-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="corn"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Healthy Eats"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kids"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Non Bong"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Veggie"/><title type='text'>Quick Corn Chaat-- and Legos are for all</title><summary type="text">
This post is going to be about a quick and easy Corn Chaat for you to serve as a side with all the&nbsp; barbecuing you might be doing, but more importantly about Legos and my rant. So, bear with me.
A few weeks back I was at LS's school(kindergarten) for some show that they had put up. As expected there were other Moms there, most of whom I had never met, and pleasantries were exchanged.
</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/1753841455893875690/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2014/06/quick-corn-chaat-and-legos-are-for-all.html#comment-form' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/1753841455893875690'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/1753841455893875690'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2014/06/quick-corn-chaat-and-legos-are-for-all.html' title='Quick Corn Chaat-- and Legos are for all'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo0Lx251ZfWKXdndmyAyJ9ERx58RVj9VXhjSzg9qD_QjnLTim9rJZ7_SggFmzh6OVkfpp55GcbjDJBhm_JyIrc_XlMGvU3qGqh8_yA5DqlTL_TkrYjXPq2mFyeBQTsaHRMZscZfw/s72-c/LegoCornChaat5.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-8153804494308333754</id><published>2014-06-06T11:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2017-07-26T22:55:57.776-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali Recipes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Desi Pundit"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Eggplant"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="FoodFiction"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ma"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Traditional Bengali"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Veggie"/><title type='text'>Beguni -- ar Ashare Goppo</title><summary type="text">
Eggplant coated in a batter of chickpea flour and deep fried
This post was first posted in 2010. It is being reposted.
The rain had started out strong, not meek like other days. Huge blobs of water, hit the warm earth rapidly, with an urgency to quench out its parched dryness. The rain was now hitting down hard on her window, with that drumming sound, she loved about rains.
Outside the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/8153804494308333754/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2014/06/beguni-ar-ashare-goppo.html#comment-form' title='40 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/8153804494308333754'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/8153804494308333754'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2014/06/beguni-ar-ashare-goppo.html' title='Beguni -- ar Ashare Goppo'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDT2hyphenhyphenFrQ0bs3nKQWgwfbwH9SLMokGbgSxYjWMn8tfOkvh3FKdKou7kuxASjshOFu7lcVBIqZg7er9u2ioOQ1lqjuVHv_dEB5Dq7Sh4O41L1zfvpEl43-pBGy5zpwteNI_UdvQ2Q/s72-c/Beguni3.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>40</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-4157351369119306410</id><published>2014-06-04T22:57:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2014-06-25T11:27:12.343-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ma"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Non Bong"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Veggie"/><title type='text'>Dahi Vada -- Doi Bora with no hole</title><summary type="text">
LS's kindergarten class has a very interesting activity every year and it involves hatching chicks. Yes, fun isn't it ?
They have a farmer bring in a hen and rooster to school and then set up an incubator with dozen eggs. Every day the kids are asked to rotate the eggs ever so gently and wait for the eggs to hatch. It is a week of great anticipation and I can imagine the level of excitement </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/4157351369119306410/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2014/06/dahi-vada-recipe.html#comment-form' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/4157351369119306410'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/4157351369119306410'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2014/06/dahi-vada-recipe.html' title='Dahi Vada -- Doi Bora with no hole'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh03770OZVApsmiVzRKSlRMD5JqEeN0UIE6vwWYBm5dNVZ5JAiYbSVcvYEGi0OorEvWJxcDbttnFdVI62J3bf0lzdj1XGBW7YeJ7966BcSQDyAhk_R9Yi10juH_UFySEteMJXd3jw/s72-c/DahiVada1.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-3032818072918670453</id><published>2014-05-12T22:51:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2016-06-10T08:57:12.903-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kids"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kids Menu"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="light lunch"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ma"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Non-traditional Bengali"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="School Lunch Box"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><title type='text'>Bread Pulav or Pau(n)rutir Pulao -- for school lunch</title><summary type="text">
Many of you send me mails asking about ideas on snack and lunchboxes for kids. I had started a blog last year where I could record the lunch I send for Big Sis but after few weak attempts, I have now realized that I did not post many lunchbox recipes there. Now there are multiple reasons for this and I will just list the general points about a school lunch in our home:
1. Though I try to send</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/3032818072918670453/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2014/05/bread-pulav-or-paunrutir-pulao-for.html#comment-form' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/3032818072918670453'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/3032818072918670453'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2014/05/bread-pulav-or-paunrutir-pulao-for.html' title='Bread Pulav or Pau(n)rutir Pulao -- for school lunch'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYVYzTJQJVNsXEsiwFCr80Wrm_1XYa_CqZqmzH4pFsEyr8ahbfr_ad037C1tSjDQT2-DrJDauUMA1uyTzO7vlmf2p25G00D6eqfucGalMcHnxBH8U3-qG67JK2C8Go7bXuAZ0b-Q/s72-c/PaurutirPulao.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-8383819393727484312</id><published>2014-02-06T23:59:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2014-02-06T23:59:44.469-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali cuisine"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali Recipes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Chire Bhaja"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ma"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ma-in-Law"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Peas"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Poha"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Traditional Bengali"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Veg"/><title type='text'>Koraishuti ba Narkel diye Chire Bhaja -- Crispy Poha</title><summary type="text">
Unlike&nbsp; where I live amidst snow, bitter cold and temperature dropping to negative, winter is a joyous time in the plains of Bengal. Because it is not really "cold" cold but merely a delusion of&nbsp; being "cold". Also this is the season when it is not really hot and you are not sweating at the mere prospect of a bus ride. That is a lot of "not"s. In fact winter is so pleasant that you can</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/8383819393727484312/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2014/02/koraishuti-ba-narkel-diye-chire-bhaja.html#comment-form' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/8383819393727484312'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/8383819393727484312'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2014/02/koraishuti-ba-narkel-diye-chire-bhaja.html' title='Koraishuti ba Narkel diye Chire Bhaja -- Crispy Poha'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Pc5jyaPVPEsPXR1__knaMb_qUtCVq_MIRJgvxdBWX7OB3wRGJxHUyAecEk-Hb4D93UnlSvtDN5tQrf9tzsPuHaxtOd4IDlQrZ7m-6-PNbGcd1zZeK5D5Rd53NruxIQHNgjf-Gw/s72-c/ChireBhaja4.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-780541358314667593</id><published>2013-11-22T00:04:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2019-10-21T15:17:34.109-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Baking"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bread"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="cakes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Dessert"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kids"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kids Menu"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Recipe from Blogs"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><title type='text'>Banana Bread with Orange zest, Fractions and Happiness</title><summary type="text">
Banana Bread is becoming a frequent bake at our home these days.
We deliberately leave out two bananas from the bunch&nbsp;we pick every morning from our luscious banana tree&nbsp;to decompose to a state that calls for serious FDA intervention. Also since I am a procrastinator, the one with good intentions of making a banana bread, the bananas are first left to decay in the fruit bowl. Right</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/780541358314667593/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2013/11/banana-bread-with-orange-zest-fractions.html#comment-form' title='19 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/780541358314667593'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/780541358314667593'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2013/11/banana-bread-with-orange-zest-fractions.html' title='Banana Bread with Orange zest, Fractions and Happiness'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ8exH1YDmN72oCQr6x1aFx3FC39ra-paa0e5LYGi_JoILWyV8sdA5BD4AczCL6OBccYk6ux3wNgaP7qlAJ_-R7LR7Dy76AqDNIS3v3d6mneZ2k7idlNFANNoG8a2t5xecmINaTg/s72-c/BananaBread2.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>19</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-4900197311881241735</id><published>2013-10-02T22:43:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2014-04-22T23:03:18.363-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali cuisine"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali Recipes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Breakfast"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Festival"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="General"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Hing er Kochuri"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kochuri-Luchi"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ma"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Radhaballavi"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Veggie"/><title type='text'>Hing er Kochuri and Alur Tarkari</title><summary type="text">
Hing er Kochuri and Alur Tarkari. The HaatPakha i,e the Palm Leaf fans that you see in this picture are decorated by my Aunt. Aren't they gorgeous ?
Durga Pujo is almost here. Mahalaya is this Friday. The gorgeous blue sky, the kaash phool, the lazy cotton clouds and the fragile shiuli with their orange stem and fragrant notes is making it all very real. As if! The only thing missing is the "</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/4900197311881241735/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2013/10/hing-er-kochuri-and-alur-tarkari.html#comment-form' title='34 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/4900197311881241735'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/4900197311881241735'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2013/10/hing-er-kochuri-and-alur-tarkari.html' title='Hing er Kochuri and Alur Tarkari'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGqOTTIuNOGFfgYJIsVjFaCHAvOkAeDBxkj5coYy9s6OaUejVNnHa8Mcx1bje4zw3P25va5MdDLgqDklt7TAlD-CAEJpuEmHlAVhYjruwIQqu8Ih2tmvoXwebdtaCn8AFylcQjMQ/s72-c/HKochuri6.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>34</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-9048397805641253180</id><published>2013-09-11T23:23:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2013-09-11T23:32:23.523-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="corn"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kids"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kids Menu"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mine"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Peas"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Veg"/><title type='text'>Peas and Corn with Himalayan Pink Salt</title><summary type="text">
The Himalayan Pink salt is not important to this recipe.
The sweet peas are. So is the corn. I threw in the Himalayan Pink salt because it sounds hippie chic and also because I bought it very cheap at Costco.
I think Saindhav Lavan is how this Himalayan Rock Salt, mined in the Khewra salt mines at the foothills of Himalaya, was known to us in India. The Kala Namak which is more popular in </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/9048397805641253180/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2013/09/peas-and-corn-with-himalayan-pink-salt.html#comment-form' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/9048397805641253180'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/9048397805641253180'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2013/09/peas-and-corn-with-himalayan-pink-salt.html' title='Peas and Corn with Himalayan Pink Salt'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPuQYz_Yl89tJJjOMZSkFSEepoIcb7H9WjonMP78EMt7P55zGUsCNmc76vlLtvqPTrTqxLhlAsNUp_fTpI3MRmHwHA2n4EyBdMXfBOtJO2VuQKDkk-XFDWUn6yB1LAdMN1mBMnlQ/s72-c/CornPeas1.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-4668906133984677252</id><published>2013-07-24T22:57:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2013-07-24T23:02:40.683-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Healthy Eats"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mine"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Non Bong"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Tomato"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Veggie"/><title type='text'>Keema Stuffed Tomatoes -- sleight of hand</title><summary type="text">
Years ago when I was a cooking novice and the new friends I had made in the US were something of a culinary genius, this dish had come into being.
No, it was not their recipe. Rather it was my attempt to match up to their amazing homemade rosogollas, fantastic chorchoris and perfect biriyanis. To invite these culinary genius friends to my then home, a one-bedroom apartment, and then to feed</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/4668906133984677252/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2013/07/keema-stuffed-tomatoes-sleight-of-hand.html#comment-form' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/4668906133984677252'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/4668906133984677252'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2013/07/keema-stuffed-tomatoes-sleight-of-hand.html' title='Keema Stuffed Tomatoes -- sleight of hand'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihv9k5aQzd18OfNxXuEATEs5dTGO5zv54TGq6emzhDEOgeMFmi-YBGWO0XZzZUK-cYkzqs1HBgFGdXRhHbntOsS6D45OFjrE_lkfvKOCSpPqsqM3xDCfsK8bz466TDCGmCSPEDYw/s72-c/StuffedTomato1.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-84958854080887329</id><published>2013-06-18T21:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2016-12-30T17:56:28.585-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mine"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mushroom"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Non Bong"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Veggie"/><title type='text'>Stuffed Mushroom in the Oven</title><summary type="text">Sometimes I think I am desperate to put every thing I see on my blog.
Lovely things. Things that I could have admired, soaked in their beauty and just let them live in my memory. But no, I want them to be here, to share with you all.
Like say this cute red tubewell at an arboretum I had refused to visit.
Or this Father's Day gift that the girls made. The gift coupon idea was from </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/84958854080887329/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2013/06/stuffed-mushroom-in-oven.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/84958854080887329'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/84958854080887329'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2013/06/stuffed-mushroom-in-oven.html' title='Stuffed Mushroom in the Oven'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5jwKTWP1PMYh3NM_IQY3sq9AVsVELaAF5SUl22hyphenhyphenFcJNMCRpzn6VaNZQGbPwk5QoakxzmedWoq-8hTZz765e6FT0WxVAtsbIRwfMZs45zW1DWTkJpNjjNbKxIFmYDAQIYzghg8A/s72-c/20130609_130557.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-7288999867463054749</id><published>2013-04-21T22:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2013-04-21T22:24:23.405-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Dessert"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kids"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kids Menu"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="nutella"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><title type='text'>Nutella Covered Crackers</title><summary type="text">
If you land up on a random day at my home with kids in tow, you will not find a pack of Oreo cookies, sack of Doritos or a bag of soft chewy cookies in my pantry.
It is not that my kids survive on carob chips and spelt flour cookies. I don't even know what they are, just wrote them like that. But because if I do have the oreo and the doritos, the conversation every 15 mins goes like this.
"</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/7288999867463054749/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2013/04/nutella-covered-crackers-and.html#comment-form' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/7288999867463054749'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/7288999867463054749'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2013/04/nutella-covered-crackers-and.html' title='Nutella Covered Crackers'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl7qPu696j4cRNMxtBC1cAN6WzOjAJ71lKq5OLh03DQq1RxoAwc0bJwm6l0Kbj9BKP4JaF4IYPZ3YHIHBZZJCNhIYKhrDrtEkQI_WXKMFmEmngZBYAeHV8OgNmipRnsDqUS3_1sQ/s72-c/NutellaCrackers2.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-2469982256108482017</id><published>2013-02-22T00:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2020-07-16T13:56:19.447-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali Recipes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kids"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kids Menu"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ma"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Traditional Bengali"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Veggie"/><title type='text'>Chirer Pulao aka Poha -- witth Oats ahem</title><summary type="text">
Chirer pulao featured a close second in my "Most wanted School Lunch" list as a kid.
The winner was almost always the egg noodles.
Third and Fourth place were tied and was either a fried rice, savory french toasts or aloo paratha. Yes, my mother packed good lunches.
As far as I go Chirer Pulao is largely similar to a Poha, with small differences like the former does not have kari patta, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/2469982256108482017/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2013/02/chirer-pulao-aka-poha-witth-oats-ahem.html#comment-form' title='15 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/2469982256108482017'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/2469982256108482017'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2013/02/chirer-pulao-aka-poha-witth-oats-ahem.html' title='Chirer Pulao aka Poha -- witth Oats ahem'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqCTySrLQYbmVYNI8Cg0JDnTuwSM45gojVPdw9RqNRvE2Vveik0ept1N73g7Y2lmsIk6_NktX27AK-lIKa3muOKH5LJ8poYWIXnyHq26w0LEVT-rnsjQHxjT561cq7wbEepuATeg/s72-c/Chirer+Pulao1.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>15</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-5739272113628480295</id><published>2012-11-19T22:43:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2012-11-19T23:12:51.616-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali Recipes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Chicken"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="NonVeg"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Traditional Bengali"/><title type='text'>Bangali Chicken Keema Chop -- for Bhai Pho(n)ta</title><summary type="text">
I love this time of the year. Not because it is winter which is really not my favorite season but because of the festivities which come tumbling one after the other. DurgaPujo, Halloween, Diwali, Bhai Phota, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year dazzles the calendar until December. Even while we are recovering from the aftermath of bhog-er khichuri, sondesh, nimki and naru there is a fifteen </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/5739272113628480295/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2012/11/bangali-chicken-keema-chop-for-bhai.html#comment-form' title='18 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/5739272113628480295'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/5739272113628480295'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2012/11/bangali-chicken-keema-chop-for-bhai.html' title='Bangali Chicken Keema Chop -- for Bhai Pho(n)ta'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhegQl87oUNlnS1yM-OBJX2vUcmx80Y307LpXW8ailt4IlV72dKdngK-DhtpVgbYiachE8JE_e4Va9MwAFzNJOWIrF-aUKxfkAgpRy0vZhwH4jBZznoqeRwCLN6uBV1IFVKR9khvg/s72-c/KeemarChop3.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>18</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-2094306926500841746</id><published>2012-11-17T00:45:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2012-11-17T00:45:36.311-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Beans"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kids"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Non Bong"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Potatoes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Veggie"/><title type='text'>Aloo Tikki Chaat -- or Ragda Patties</title><summary type="text">
While everyone else was making sweets and wearing silks on Diwali I was making this aloo tikki chaat in yoga pants that has seen better days.And why ? For the simple reason that I had soaked some yellow (or was it white?) vatana in the morning to make ghugni and suddenly just a ghugni for dinner did not seem right on Diwali. I am ashamed to say but that was the most I could do. In light of all</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/2094306926500841746/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2012/11/aloo-tikki-chaat-or-ragda-patties.html#comment-form' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/2094306926500841746'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/2094306926500841746'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2012/11/aloo-tikki-chaat-or-ragda-patties.html' title='Aloo Tikki Chaat -- or Ragda Patties'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaWiE6clhh_cXy-yhPrQyfdzUZixon7-H-kRGwqvlAkpfhNzDtqHYSIZSYWQM0iE7HGShZ86nlfnaVrIikvzIMs3g85WB6Dwx60gcrx_iIiq3rBfHWHnjLU1Mzr_nKjqzcCxvZCg/s72-c/AlooTikki1.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-779792229235488746</id><published>2012-08-02T23:11:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2012-08-09T11:21:52.436-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Chicken"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Non Bong"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="NonVeg"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Recipe from Books"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><title type='text'>Chicken Keema Pakora -- fasting or feasting</title><summary type="text">It was one of those days that deserve some deep fried love. I am not exactly sure what kind of exact day it was but it must have been pretty worthwhile to deserve pakoras being fried in bubbling hot oil.
Could have been the day, LS took the plunge and rode the bicycle with the training wheels. From three wheels to four, two of them in training waiting to be taken away.
Could also have been </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/779792229235488746/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2012/08/chicken-keema-pakora-fasting-or-feasting.html#comment-form' title='16 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/779792229235488746'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/779792229235488746'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2012/08/chicken-keema-pakora-fasting-or-feasting.html' title='Chicken Keema Pakora -- fasting or feasting'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><thr:total>16</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-8833356858407831400</id><published>2012-05-14T12:29:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2013-09-16T14:32:11.677-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Baking"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="cakes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Dessert"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Eggs"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kids"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kids Menu"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Non Bong"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Recipe from Blogs"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><title type='text'>Piya's Orange Chocolate Cupcakes on Mother's Day</title><summary type="text">Yesterday was Mother's Day. I am sure you had a nice one if you are one or made it nice for some Mother if you are not one.
Mine started on Friday itself with a Mother's Day Tea at Little Sis's school. I am very excited about these pre-school activities as I get to see the child in a different scenario than I am used to and this time I was going back to the same school where I had attended </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/8833356858407831400/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2012/05/piyas-orange-chocolate-cupcakes-on.html#comment-form' title='50 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/8833356858407831400'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/8833356858407831400'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2012/05/piyas-orange-chocolate-cupcakes-on.html' title='Piya's Orange Chocolate Cupcakes on Mother's Day'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><thr:total>50</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-4798284992143704404</id><published>2012-01-11T12:01:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-11T12:03:30.900-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali Recipe Book"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali Recipes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Potatoes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Traditional Bengali"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Veggie"/><title type='text'>Alu Kabli -- the Bongo Potato Salad</title><summary type="text">
"Go, watch a movie", my Mother prods. She does this every time she is here. Religiously, during the course of her six months of stay, she asks me to go out to a movie theater. To a multiplex, with digital screens, buckets of popcorn, large glasses of coke, the whole zing-bang. She says it the same way she asks me to take my vitamins, calcium , drink milk, exercise, kapalbhaati, breath in-out.
</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/4798284992143704404/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2012/01/alu-kabli-bongo-potato-salad.html#comment-form' title='31 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/4798284992143704404'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/4798284992143704404'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2012/01/alu-kabli-bongo-potato-salad.html' title='Alu Kabli -- the Bongo Potato Salad'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><thr:total>31</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-2998717488671526306</id><published>2011-10-11T10:47:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-11T10:58:22.703-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali Recipes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Festival"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kochuri-Luchi"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ma"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Traditional Bengali"/><title type='text'>Nimki -- salty, crunchy for Bijoya</title><summary type="text">I used to like October a lot, a humongous size of a lot, more than 2.5 acres of a lot. I would count the days leading up to Shoshthi, the days of missing school, the days until the magazine guy would drop off the anandomela on the front porch and the days until we would pack up or suitcases and metal trunks to wait at the small station early in the morning with sleep in our eyes.
I still like </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/2998717488671526306/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2011/10/nimki-salty-crunchy-for-bijoya.html#comment-form' title='30 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/2998717488671526306'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/2998717488671526306'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2011/10/nimki-salty-crunchy-for-bijoya.html' title='Nimki -- salty, crunchy for Bijoya'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6050/6233186406_41e6941cc7_t.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>30</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-3865668830591585172</id><published>2011-08-11T22:45:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2011-08-11T22:49:07.832-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Chutney"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Guacamole"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Non Bong"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Veggie"/><title type='text'>Holy Guacamole by the Ganges</title><summary type="text">Birthdays when I was a kid were simplistic affairs. It was the 70's. The most glamorous birthday song I had ever heard was Johnny Walker singing "Happy Birthday To You" on Binaca Geetmala. It was a good thing that we hadn't watched the movie and there was no YouTube to see the song. Other than Johnny Walker and Joy Mukherjee no one seems to enjoy that birthday party, not even Saira Banu in her </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/3865668830591585172/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2011/08/holi-guacamole-by-ganges.html#comment-form' title='28 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/3865668830591585172'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/3865668830591585172'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2011/08/holi-guacamole-by-ganges.html' title='Holy Guacamole by the Ganges'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6068/6031300162_27876dfe7a_t.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>28</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-1233332188575509322</id><published>2011-07-06T21:07:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2018-03-06T14:39:36.601-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Beet"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali Kitchen"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali Recipes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Carrot"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ma"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Potatoes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Traditional Bengali"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Veggie"/><title type='text'>Vegetable Chop or Bhejetebil Chop</title><summary type="text">
Vegetable Chop or Bhejtebil Chop(sic!) is another popular snack from streets of Kolkata
My Mother having grown up in the mofussils, where everything from rosogolla to chingri'r chop(shrimp cutlet) was made at home, had an uncanny fear of Kolkata street food. Actually any street food.
All through the 80's, she stymied my attempts at street food with a vengeance that matched a NRI mother who</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/1233332188575509322/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2011/07/vegetable-chop-or-bhejetebil-chop.html#comment-form' title='52 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/1233332188575509322'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/1233332188575509322'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2011/07/vegetable-chop-or-bhejetebil-chop.html' title='Vegetable Chop or Bhejetebil Chop'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5273/5901524939_abdf8605a5_t.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>52</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-6660924578405888293</id><published>2011-04-01T22:54:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2012-02-24T14:55:16.361-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Fish"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Non Bong"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="NonVeg"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Shrimp"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><title type='text'>Fried Shrimp with Plum Sauce and Sesame Seeds</title><summary type="text">I had a different post for this week. But then Wednesday happened.And tomorrow is happening, so I could not possibly post a recipe which was blah. And I am not even a cricket fanatic. I am the kinds who watch the last two overs if India has chance to win or lose as the case may be. It is the "chance" thing that gets my adrenaline rushing rather than the actual nittie-gritties of the match. It is </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/6660924578405888293/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2011/04/fried-shrimp-with-plum-sauce-and-sesame.html#comment-form' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/6660924578405888293'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/6660924578405888293'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2011/04/fried-shrimp-with-plum-sauce-and-sesame.html' title='Fried Shrimp with Plum Sauce and Sesame Seeds'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-5154177900285519124</id><published>2011-03-01T12:05:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2020-04-25T00:44:53.422-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali Recipes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mine"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Potatoes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Traditional Bengali"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Veggie"/><title type='text'>Aloor Chop or Alur Chop</title><summary type="text">
Aloor Chop | Bengali Potato Fritters
Alur Chop or Aloor Chop, spicy discs of mashed potatoes that are coated in a batter of chickpea flour and deep fried are the best Bengali snack with cups of ginger tea on a rainy evening. They sell like hot cakes in the very popular "telebhaja" shops in bengal.
"Knock, Knock"
"Who's there?"
"Apple"
"Apple, who?"
"Orange"
"Orange, who?"
Thus it </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/5154177900285519124/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2011/03/aloor-chop-or-alur-chop-revisited.html#comment-form' title='33 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/5154177900285519124'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/5154177900285519124'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2011/03/aloor-chop-or-alur-chop-revisited.html' title='Aloor Chop or Alur Chop'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixPZHLZ7itT7ApuM5DGXPOqNygCXtUo8_0MVH-ms4TSC0FHiDsEKwlRW29ipecUGo7xWckBPxjk42bgB9c9nyyIHnn_o48GQ8InHaKdn9GC44BlCOwx5wyXAzIWT9oN44Ktyni7g/s72-c/AloorChop3.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>33</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-5449023983311697253</id><published>2010-09-10T11:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2017-09-05T22:37:41.554-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Non Bong"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="NonVeg"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="One Pot Meal"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Recipe from Blogs"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sandwich"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Veggie"/><title type='text'>Samwich -- Sandwich</title><summary type="text">
Easy, quick meals is my mantra these days.
In my late twenties I would have scoffed at "meal" and "mantra" being uttered in the same breath and dialed DeenDayal Dabba Delivery or Shanghai Indian Chinese for the quickest route to nirvana. If DeenDayal refused or my delicate digestive system protested I would say "Yenna Rascala" and throw potatoes, egg and rice in the pressure cooker. In </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/5449023983311697253/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2010/09/samwich-sandwich.html#comment-form' title='18 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/5449023983311697253'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/5449023983311697253'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2010/09/samwich-sandwich.html' title='Samwich -- Sandwich'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-lL7naiW9qX3NbbKW5o6sbXM4lkIER0ggxu_KOmiTd-Jh1xo7IA-oCu2f1GTawnEaAdh5xuAPrRF70cn2BAD_FrlOSvBNlRzg161ieeAU8sGZ3nO8pK5qM9zYHazPvPbMW-NVZA/s72-c/ChickenBallMushroom2-1.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>18</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-258269952869999353</id><published>2010-07-20T12:23:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2011-03-18T23:06:34.777-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali Recipes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Fish"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mine"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="NonVeg"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Shrimp"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Traditional Bengali"/><title type='text'>Chingri Pakoda -- Shrimp Pakoda</title><summary type="text">
BS lost her very first tooth last week, last Wednesday to be precise. Major excitement ensued.More than the tooth, it was about the Tooth Fairy and the cash she would bring.
I had no clue that Tooth Fairies brought wads of dollar bills.
A shiny quarter was all I knew. Apparently I am wrong, as suggested by little neighbor girl.
The little neighbor girl has raised the bar pretty high saying </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/258269952869999353/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2010/07/chingri-pakoda-shrimp-pakoda.html#comment-form' title='24 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/258269952869999353'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/258269952869999353'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2010/07/chingri-pakoda-shrimp-pakoda.html' title='Chingri Pakoda -- Shrimp Pakoda'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><thr:total>24</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-1493678590024337653</id><published>2010-06-16T11:04:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2017-09-23T21:03:01.267-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali Recipes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Fish"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ma"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="NonVeg"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Traditional Bengali"/><title type='text'>Macher Chop/Maacher Chop -- or a Fish Croquette</title><summary type="text">
I made Maacher Chop on Saturday.
Perfect accompaniment to Argentina playing Netherlands.
Bongs love Maacher Chop. They also love Football. It is hard to say which they love better.
This version of Maacher chop is an easier one, more like a croquette. The real Maacher Chop has an outer casing of potato, stuffed with a separately cooked spicy fish stuffing, the whole of which is then</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/1493678590024337653/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2010/06/macher-chop-maacher-chop-or-fish.html#comment-form' title='28 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/1493678590024337653'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/1493678590024337653'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2010/06/macher-chop-maacher-chop-or-fish.html' title='Macher Chop/Maacher Chop -- or a Fish Croquette'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtnG1-HwDwSlfEmrUUHMpEB2-x3An_jU2fn2xz-NNLinJ-DnnxNp071jlbdVk_LDqQiFmV4RqJmuarP1VPkQXH1HGqZyRboGcT6Lx-VLNw3Tigbo5F2DbB0w_ICr_UK7oUYEk3kQ/s72-c/FishChop3.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>28</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-8314011636345852088</id><published>2010-05-24T11:55:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2022-03-25T22:18:44.286-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali Recipes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ma"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Milk"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Non-traditional Bengali"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Veggie"/><title type='text'>Paurutir Dohi Vada -- Bread Dahi Vada</title><summary type="text">Paurutir Doi Bora | Bread Dahi VadaMade&nbsp;with soft white breads and thick yogurt, this faux Dahi Vada or Bengali Doi Bora is a quick snack, the ones that you can make while chatting with your guests. It is good that is quick, for it needs to be devoured as soon as you make it and does not stand well if served later.Jump To Recipe
A large chunk of my growing up years have been spent in small </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/8314011636345852088/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2010/05/paurutir-dohi-vada-bread-dahi-vada.html#comment-form' title='31 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/8314011636345852088'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/8314011636345852088'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2010/05/paurutir-dohi-vada-bread-dahi-vada.html' title='Paurutir Dohi Vada -- Bread Dahi Vada'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLCgBBx5dSkesDSVZ4FQfMtRVtnL7GEaeoZmmJYpX_gO6iL2q22NET1jgL0vGR3w7dJoBE9LxasJN0O5wBpMqchzZiLGguVB0vHTMMhrVxlWQrSH9pXiJ_jngG-8wpBdvqJDCRe_Biji5flMbbipGs8holoC4yEvOHaueqycPAVOqCf2UyJzs=s72-w490-h640-c" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>31</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-23460303966292897</id><published>2010-04-19T14:50:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2021-02-04T22:25:17.497-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Chicken"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Eggs"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ma"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Non Bong"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Non-traditional Bengali"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="NonVeg"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Recipe from Books"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><title type='text'>Keema Koraishuti ar Dim er Parota -- Keema Matar with Crepes</title><summary type="text">
Saturday Mornings are a time of great trepidation for me. Here there are whole 48 hours given to me by God or the Government or whoever, to be used as I wish and that puts a lot of pressure on me. I mean if it was only "I" or even the husband and I, I wouldn't have any fears, I would have just slept and read and done nothing in those 48 hours.
But it is not that, there are important little </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/23460303966292897/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2010/04/keema-koraishuti-ar-dim-er-parota-keema.html#comment-form' title='34 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/23460303966292897'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/23460303966292897'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2010/04/keema-koraishuti-ar-dim-er-parota-keema.html' title='Keema Koraishuti ar Dim er Parota -- Keema Matar with Crepes'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><thr:total>34</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-7951434572625662060</id><published>2010-01-04T13:22:00.009-05:00</published><updated>2017-09-05T23:00:18.743-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali Recipes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Desi Pundit"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Eggs"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mine"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Traditional Bengali"/><title type='text'>Kolkata Egg Roll -- quick easy version</title><summary type="text">
Vacation over for Big Sis S and kind of for us. Big Sis S proclaimed that it was her best vacation ever and why, 'coz she was allowed to stay up til midnight almost every day of last week. With a party almost every other day, a sleepover, a late night show of "The Princess and the Frog", dancing past midnight on New Year Eve and a birthday bash at her favorite jumping place, no doubt she had </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/7951434572625662060/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2010/01/kolkata-egg-roll-quick-easy-version.html#comment-form' title='59 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/7951434572625662060'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/7951434572625662060'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2010/01/kolkata-egg-roll-quick-easy-version.html' title='Kolkata Egg Roll -- quick easy version'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEfIl1EmhMcDyv9pW3wa5BedA8KUB3Ce1i0e870dctvnfA3YYAGYNtno7M0ykPX4jDoayqHXpZNXcXFK77PtjTONHjATjZ9eGCQDg8pqadyDoVKj5x8DBU_wOFIAlt59sJJs3hrw/s72-c/EggRollMain.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>59</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-5978054528542845164</id><published>2009-12-16T14:14:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-16T14:15:35.733-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kids Menu"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Non Bong"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Veggie"/><title type='text'>Macaroni, Macaroni in a Cup</title><summary type="text">Why is there so much discussion about Princess Tianna's skin color ? Do kids even care about such things in an animated character ? If so wouldn't they break their head about how Arthur looks and what a garish purple Barney is ?I have little patience with Disney princesses though I think Snow White is cute and has a pretty hair do.All I want to tell those girls, the princesses I mean, is"Whatever</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/5978054528542845164/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2009/12/macaroni-macaroni-in-cup.html#comment-form' title='35 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/5978054528542845164'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/5978054528542845164'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2009/12/macaroni-macaroni-in-cup.html' title='Macaroni, Macaroni in a Cup'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><thr:total>35</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-1787678500868637760</id><published>2009-12-15T21:59:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-15T22:05:58.976-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kids Menu"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Non Bong"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><title type='text'>Apples with Nutella</title><summary type="text">Apples with Nutella make a great snack. How do you eat your Nutella or for that matter Apples ?And now guess what we have for tomorrow. It is nothing that you are thinking.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/1787678500868637760/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2009/12/apples-with-nutella.html#comment-form' title='14 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/1787678500868637760'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/1787678500868637760'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2009/12/apples-with-nutella.html' title='Apples with Nutella'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><thr:total>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-5079197688737284670</id><published>2009-11-23T13:55:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-23T14:10:28.044-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali Recipes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Fish"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Recipe from Friends"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Traditional Bengali"/><title type='text'>Bengali Fish Fry --- anglo bangla fry</title><summary type="text">The Bengali fish fry is not really the everyday bengali fish fry. The everyday bengali fish fry is actually the maach bhaja, steak pieces of fish, smeared with salt and turmeric and fried golden in smoking mustard oil. The maach bhaja can be eaten on its own as a side with the dal. It is also a precursor to the bengali fish curry, the every day maacher jhol, bengalis rarely make a fish curry </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/5079197688737284670/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2009/11/bengali-fish-fry-anglo-bangla-fry.html#comment-form' title='47 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/5079197688737284670'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/5079197688737284670'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2009/11/bengali-fish-fry-anglo-bangla-fry.html' title='Bengali Fish Fry --- anglo bangla fry'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><thr:total>47</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-3728620619985756871</id><published>2009-11-05T14:20:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2012-03-09T23:27:46.413-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Non Bong"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Recipe from Blogs"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><title type='text'>Jeera Biscuit -- Whole Wheat Eggless Cumin Cookies</title><summary type="text">
After the thekua episode I was on a high. This was easy I thought. I didn't have to fish out menacing contraptions to whisk, mix etc. as in regular baking. I didn't have to follow measures diligently, I could still throw things around. I didn't even have to roll out perfect rounds like chapati !!! Why not make something more I thought.
Jeera Biscuits, savory cookies spiced with cumin, has </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/3728620619985756871/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2009/11/jeera-biscuit-whole-wheat-eggless-cumin.html#comment-form' title='38 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/3728620619985756871'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/3728620619985756871'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2009/11/jeera-biscuit-whole-wheat-eggless-cumin.html' title='Jeera Biscuit -- Whole Wheat Eggless Cumin Cookies'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><thr:total>38</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-3786721481411209827</id><published>2009-04-27T21:02:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2012-02-24T14:51:31.606-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="7 Day Challenge"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Fish"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Shrimp"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><title type='text'>Besan Ka Cheela and Pepper Shrimp</title><summary type="text">We are done with 7 days of Challenge, woo hoo. Am I glad or what.Saturday with all that fasting-shasting I was pretty crappy and so was the husband. We were spiteful and had huge rows. Low carb/sugar was showing its effects."But I feel lighter", I said to myself, "Maybe I have lost inches(or feet) if not pounds. If I lose my marriage so what, at least I will be thin"And then came along dear N and</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/3786721481411209827/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2009/04/besan-ka-cheela-and-pepper-shrimp.html#comment-form' title='30 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/3786721481411209827'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/3786721481411209827'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2009/04/besan-ka-cheela-and-pepper-shrimp.html' title='Besan Ka Cheela and Pepper Shrimp'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><thr:total>30</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-6429319375421552428</id><published>2008-05-31T00:06:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-31T00:10:53.659-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali Recipes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Event"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Fruits"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ma"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mango"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Traditional Bengali"/><title type='text'>Mango Season and Chire-Doi-Aam</title><summary type="text">aka Beaten Rice(Poha) mixed with Yogurt, sweet mangoes, bananas and jaggeryDear Mango, Do you Love me as much as I do theeDo you look forward to summer,to be in your element or are you just sick and bored with all the hypeAnd what about all the competition, the Langda, the Himsagar, the Hapoos, running the rat race, do you really want to be thereDo you want to be the chosen one to be sent </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/6429319375421552428/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2008/05/mango-season-and-chire-doi-aam.html#comment-form' title='56 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/6429319375421552428'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/6429319375421552428'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2008/05/mango-season-and-chire-doi-aam.html' title='Mango Season and Chire-Doi-Aam'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><thr:total>56</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-8842833782417454843</id><published>2008-05-11T22:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-11T22:30:38.939-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="General"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kids Menu"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><title type='text'>Happy Mothers Day</title><summary type="text">with Maggi Noodles and a small picnic.Friday was Mother’s Day Tea at S’s pre-school. It was a rainy and dull morning but that one hour in her school pepped me up. It has been a year since S has been going to this pre-school and she is comfortable there now, I too know most of her class mates and some Moms unlike last year. So it was a happy one hour accompanied with iced tea and munchkins, it was</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/8842833782417454843/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2008/05/happy-mothers-day.html#comment-form' title='40 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/8842833782417454843'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/8842833782417454843'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2008/05/happy-mothers-day.html' title='Happy Mothers Day'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><thr:total>40</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-2752402522157318080</id><published>2008-04-11T01:53:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-10T23:50:08.977-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Event"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Non Bong"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Recipe from Blogs"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><title type='text'>Goduma Dosa -- quick, easy, wheat dosa</title><summary type="text">I love Dosa, no not all kinds, but Masala Dosa and paper Masala Dosa and oh yes, Mysore Masala Dosa. Growing up we ate a fair amount of Masala Dosa, not at home, but on our ritual Sunday outings. It might sound strange because it is not something a typical Bong family would do. The hubby insists they ate, Dhakai Parota &amp; Kasha Mangsho, Moghlai and such on their weekend outings. I guess </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/2752402522157318080/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2008/04/goduma-dosa-quick-easy-wheat-dosa.html#comment-form' title='20 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/2752402522157318080'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/2752402522157318080'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2008/04/goduma-dosa-quick-easy-wheat-dosa.html' title='Goduma Dosa -- quick, easy, wheat dosa'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><thr:total>20</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-4108000213497915900</id><published>2007-09-20T22:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-20T22:38:40.338-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Event"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Non Bong"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Veggie"/><title type='text'>Uppittu for Bangalore</title><summary type="text">For Bangalore…For the Bangali Mashima in Malleshwaram who would drag me along to get Fish from YeshwantpuraFor the Coorgi Aunty in Indiranagar who fed me delectable chicken biryaniFor the cafeteria workers who very kindly served me sugar with my curd after laughing at my request for the first few daysFor the same cafeteria, where I had delicious breakfasts of Uppittu and idli, if I managed to </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/4108000213497915900/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2007/09/uppittu-for-bangalore.html#comment-form' title='61 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/4108000213497915900'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/4108000213497915900'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2007/09/uppittu-for-bangalore.html' title='Uppittu for Bangalore'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><thr:total>61</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-7574706808099801055</id><published>2007-08-18T23:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-19T01:39:45.025-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali Recipes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Event"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Traditional Bengali"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Veggie"/><title type='text'>Party with Luchi-Alu Charchari</title><summary type="text">Luchi-AlurDom pic from my previous post Luchi-Alu Charchari from todayI never thought I will make Luchi again and that too in such rapid succession. But with all the deep-frying going on in Blogosphere I was really very hungry. Still, I restrained myself until Coffee came and commented (on my last post) that she thought the Puri I was talking about was Poori.What Blasphemy!!!Here I was being all </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/7574706808099801055/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2007/08/party-with-luchi-alu-charchari.html#comment-form' title='42 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/7574706808099801055'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/7574706808099801055'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2007/08/party-with-luchi-alu-charchari.html' title='Party with Luchi-Alu Charchari'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><thr:total>42</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-7756138400982009755</id><published>2007-07-18T14:14:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2016-08-21T22:02:09.366-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bengali Recipes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ma"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Traditional Bengali"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Veggie"/><title type='text'>Phulko Luchi ar Aloor Dom</title><summary type="text">
Long back Indosungod had asked “Whats a typical Bengali Breakfast ?”. As I munched on my Seven Whole Grain Kashi Bar reflecting on what good the fiber and the flax seeds were doing to me, I tried to give her question a thought. I thought of the times at home when my Ma would cook up amazing breakfasts not only on weekends but also on busy weekday mornings. When I thought such breakfasts were</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/7756138400982009755/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2007/07/phulko-luchi-ar-aloor-dom.html#comment-form' title='87 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/7756138400982009755'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/7756138400982009755'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2007/07/phulko-luchi-ar-aloor-dom.html' title='Phulko Luchi ar Aloor Dom'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfPm2O9WPSZ4E13c4c-bAW6jSFZUpygZ3IRfbRL_g4HzQ2rOMBYWfRHIAeLDHnhwSaSQVwA-j7r0oK2JFj1pLaE9mSLZWurvIAgLfS-cotdDpMGFox17w-fqPCZceM_vjQeHothA/s72-c/1Luchi4.1.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>87</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-2924882306968966958</id><published>2007-04-25T19:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-26T08:55:31.370-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Event"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ma"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Non-traditional Bengali"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Veggie"/><title type='text'>Palang Saag er Chop</title><summary type="text">No, it does not mean Chopped Spinach, silly, to find out, go through my rant...(Note: A part of this post shared at Desi Momz Club)The Parents left over the weekend after a long stay, leaving both me and S miserable. Don't know about D though. It's amazing how guys never crib about their in-laws and yet lead a peaceful life, thus leaving no opportunity for serials like "Sasur bhi Kabhi Damad Tha"</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/2924882306968966958/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2007/04/palang-saag-er-chop.html#comment-form' title='43 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/2924882306968966958'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/2924882306968966958'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2007/04/palang-saag-er-chop.html' title='Palang Saag er Chop'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvsxuoptxxGagmVwaoLD700HMC252y4H3A5FM4rvUpzP2VPzUQiPfnZ4nwgcb10FpT_RfQm4sgMzPXj68DUm229qaf3AomiqNOVKUHlc71B-jkrE59z9G3t3V4QgL5I3o6GcZ2Pg/s72-c/PalakChop2.1.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>43</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-2572257974075914774</id><published>2007-02-16T22:22:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-06-03T11:56:26.693-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Chicken"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Non Bong"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Recipe from Blogs"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><title type='text'>Sailaja's Chicken Masala Balls</title><summary type="text"> I do not get the opportunity to leaf through many cookbooks to decide "What’s for dinner" or "lunch" or "snack". Not that I don't want to but simply because I don't get time. While coming to US I had packed two Bengali Recipe Books written in Bengali with me. One of them doesn't have great collection of food but I loved the author, Leela Majumdar, and her all other Literary works, so had to buy </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/2572257974075914774/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2007/02/sailajas-chicken-masala-balls.html#comment-form' title='17 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/2572257974075914774'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/2572257974075914774'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2007/02/sailajas-chicken-masala-balls.html' title='Sailaja's Chicken Masala Balls'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><thr:total>17</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-4618504318431907829</id><published>2007-01-21T12:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-21T12:55:18.607-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kids Menu"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Non Bong"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Recipe from Blogs"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><title type='text'>Banana Pancake For Breakfast</title><summary type="text"> Three of my dear blogger friends have started two very interesting and new events this year. Everyone is already aware of Monthly Blog Patrolling and I am sure Coffee is busy going through her entries right now.Maheshwari of Beyond The Usual started AFAM aka A Fruit A Month. An event started to encourage eating more fruits and making tasty healthy dishes using the fruit of the month. A healthy </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/4618504318431907829/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2007/01/banana-pancake-for-breakfast.html#comment-form' title='33 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/4618504318431907829'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/4618504318431907829'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2007/01/banana-pancake-for-breakfast.html' title='Banana Pancake For Breakfast'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpH49Qy0LV5PnIZICUbyr-xIp92nm3X4QRuM6z3GUPjS3ZHh8S9Ub9MZKZ8G_eE3nc3JZHC0bZ_74MJl9VxrajRLA19OiwWzwRjVUjSTFPj72j80oUQyaebcvHe0q0FsJTNizFyQ/s72-c/BananaPancake1.1.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>33</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-6448036153909222398</id><published>2006-12-14T20:43:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-06-09T13:45:34.119-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ma"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Non-traditional Bengali"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Veggie"/><title type='text'>Baked Beet BreadRoll & Chai</title><summary type="text"> Jump to RecipeWhen I and many others at that time were growing up (as in the late 80's when I was in school) life in India was much simple, informal, relaxed and also slow. At least that is how it was in our sleepy little township. The IT outsourcing had not overtaken India and call centers were not heard of. Devoid of malls and multiplex theaters our weekends were spent watching "Mahabharat" on</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/6448036153909222398/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2006/12/baked-beet-breadroll-chai.html#comment-form' title='27 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/6448036153909222398'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/6448036153909222398'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2006/12/baked-beet-breadroll-chai.html' title='Baked Beet BreadRoll & Chai'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><thr:total>27</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35578975.post-116226374362656354</id><published>2006-10-30T21:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-04-13T12:43:30.945-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Eggs"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ma"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Non-traditional Bengali"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Snack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Soy"/><title type='text'>Egg Paratha with a Twist</title><summary type="text">Saturday Morning Breakfasts at our home are usually my husband’s affair, he is in charge, whipping up a warm breakfast different from the toast-omelets or cereal-milk kind. This does not mean that he does not lapse from his routine, after all he is a man , but even if I take 52 Saturday mornings – 12 lapses – 4 traveling Saturdays – 4 Vacation Saturdays, the answer is 32, way better than 42 (!!!)</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/feeds/116226374362656354/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2006/10/egg-paratha-with-twist.html#comment-form' title='41 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/116226374362656354'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35578975/posts/default/116226374362656354'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.bongcookbook.com/2006/10/egg-paratha-with-twist.html' title='Egg Paratha with a Twist'/><author><name>Bong Mom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15407918137263251235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6887/3961/320/notepad_and_pencil.jpg'/></author><thr:total>41</thr:total></entry></feed>

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