A Falguni platter: Cooking edible flowers
18 February 2024
Falgun arrives in a flurry of yellow and I am pleased to share some popular Bengali recipes, in collaboration with Joyadrita Ragavendran Chatterjee, who shares her family specials from West Bengal.
18 February 2024
Recipes from around the world
4 February 2024
The year 2024 arrived with a sudden cold wave that called for the warmest dishes one can conjure. As we bid adieu to this cold weather and look forward to the yellows of spring, we take advantage of the chilly evenings for the last of this season’s warm soups and pies. A Fearless Olive version of the recipes and a personal favourite to brighten your dinner tables. Have a lovely week!
4 February 2024
Delicious flavours from o par Bangla
15 October 2023
This Durga Puja, I collaborated with Joyadrita Ragavendran Chatterjee from across the border to share some of her family favourites. Joyadrita grew up enjoying the culture of both East Bengal and West Bengal as her maternal side is from Bangladesh and her paternal side is from India.
15 October 2023
Recipes using Balsamic vinegar: Exploring its health benefits
10 July 2023
From lowering blood sugar and pressure levels, increasing the ability to absorb vitamins in the body and reducing hypertension, balsamic vinegar denotes to the word balm-like. The following are some recipes that uses Balsamic vinegar.
10 July 2023
Meat recipes to try from around the world
10 July 2023
Sometimes, after any enthusiastic grocery shopping, we are left with a lot of meat in the refrigerator. If you are tired of having meat dishes deshi style, these three recipes are the perfect cure for you.
10 July 2023
4 lamb recipes for Eid ul Azha
19 June 2023
In our recipe column dedicated to the flavours of Eid, we invite you on a culinary journey through rich lamb dishes from around the world that will dazzle your taste buds.
19 June 2023
Recipes for Eid day special dishes
16 April 2023
Allow me to navigate you through some of the most popular dishes eaten around the world to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr. From Anatolia to the Levant, we will rummage around our kitchen to look for ingredients that are readily available, to make something that offers your loved ones a different experience. Let the biriyanis and the shemai take a back seat for a change and dig into a large dish of rice and meat or get an overdose of Eid cookies. Above all, share your meals with loved ones and have a lovely Eid.
16 April 2023
Fusion Terminal – Bottling our local heritage
22 February 2021
Bilimbi is a fruit unknown to many Bangladeshis; the same goes for jara lebu — a Sylheti citrus. Both these find a new avatar, along with local tomatoes, being transformed into sundried ones, coming together in a unique set of pickles from the house of Fusion Terminal.
22 February 2021
Gerald Durrell's Corfu: A Greek Easter and Seasonal Kumquats
I wanted to visit Corfu ever since I read Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals, which was set in Corfu of the 1930s, and the spirited character Spiros livened up the writer's depiction of this seaside town. Incidentally, Corfu is known to have one of the most unique Easter celebrations in Greece, an experience I could not have missed!
26 March 2018
Have a Fearless Women's Day
As we entered the new year buoyed by the #metoo campaign and a renewed sense of awareness regarding women's rights in the work place, allow me to bring you some recipes that you can enjoy with your girl friends as you plan and plot to rule your world and assert yourself! Here's to more equal opportunities and no extra kilograms, regardless of what you eat! ladies, have a Fearless 2018 and may everyday be one for women!
5 March 2018
The Olive Harvest in Crete, Greece
As winter approaches, the Greeks start preparing for the olive harvest season. With the third highest production worldwide, more than 80% of which is extra virgin olive oil, harvesting this fruit is still very much a family affair for many Greeks.
26 February 2018
A delectable mix
The year began with a cold wave that made us all want to curl up into a ball and stay hidden under the warmth of our blankets. It also left most of us sniffling and coughing with the seasonal flu.
29 January 2018
Cheers to the newlyweds
Give me a sun, I care not how hot, and sherbet, I care not how cool, and my Heaven is as easily made as your Persian's.
20 November 2017
Pumpkins galore
An ancient Celtic festival, a goddess of gardens and fruits, and a mixture of many rituals over the centuries leaves us celebrating the macabre on the last day of October.
30 October 2017
'Bhuribhoj' on Durga Puja
Bengali Hindu households respond to 'mayer dak' as Durga Puja arrives in all its splendour and people prepare for this autumn festival of welcoming the mother home.
25 September 2017
Greek bovine delicacies
The Venetians are credited for bringing in the stifado when they came to rule Greece around the 13th century CE and the dish is full of… onions. Tiny ones, but just load it up with them!
18 September 2017
The Exotic Cretan Menu on Eid
As I sit writing this article on the Greek island of Crete, the song of the cicadas serenades me and I think of Dhaka and the festival of sacrifice just around the corner. Goat meat is high on every Cretan menu so I take this opportunity to share some Greek meat dishes and one from across the border in Turkey. Eat healthy and may your bellies be filled with good food and your hearts with the best wishes of loves ones.
21 August 2017
Warm, comforting soups
No matter how healthy we eat during the day, late in the afternoon we tend to get peckish and often experience a sudden craving for fried snacks.
31 July 2017
Sheep Shearing or Kouraes in Crete
One of the first things you notice on the mountains of Crete are the goats and the sheep. Hordes of them.
17 July 2017
Healthy is the new delicious
O moon-faced Beloved, the month of Ramadan has arrived, Cover the table, and open the path of praise.
29 May 2017
It's all Greek!
The Greek version of a typical bhorta ideally has mashed potatoes with garlic, as skorda is garlic in Greek and comes in all forms with boiled beet or zucchini.
17 April 2017
The magic of aphrodisiacs
Almost all food items at some point or the other have been cloistered under the title of an aphrodisiac, with distinct qualities of not just increasing libido but also making us seem more attractive and appealing to the opposite gender.
20 February 2017
For a healthy 2017 and beyond!
As the wedding season hits Dhaka with its onslaught of dinners and lunches that make you totter out of the door feeling like you consumed your life's worth of food, here are an assortment of items you can offer those in-between-wedding 'dawat' guests while keeping their palates craving for more.
16 January 2017
Chilli and chocolates: a match made in heaven
As the days get colder, appreciate the full bodied flavours of chocolate is all its savoury glory! Rich in minerals, chocolate is known to help combat heart disease, fight the LDL, the so-called 'bad cholesterol,' and also aid in losing weight.
26 December 2016
Of freshness and Greek salads
The Greeks love a salad that embodies everything about a Mediterranean diet: greens, freshness, olive oil and the zest of a lemon, or perhaps balsamic vinegar.
5 December 2016
It's all Greek!
As the year rolls into its final trimester and shorot makes way for hemonto to hopefully bring in cooler days, I bring to you recipes from a land far off, far removed from the deltaic flat lands of Bangladesh.
17 October 2016
The Feast of Sacrifice
The Russians have a penchant for using meat to their fill, in soups, in porridges and cereals and mixed heartily with vegetables too.
19 September 2016
Ramadan ‘soup-er’ bowl!
Keeping the month of Ramadan in mind, Star Lifestyle presents various mouth-watering easy-to-make recipes that would be an ideal addition to your iftar or sehri dishes.
18 June 2016