Simple everyday recipes with bits of this and that and a touch of Bengali-ness
Monday is vegetarian day at our home. All because of that woman in my home :p She was following this for a long time so even though I argue, I usually give in. So today we were out of options. There was no paneer, which we usually have on Mondays, and almost no vegetables barring [...]
Prawns (Chingri in Bengali) are an all time favorite of your typical Bengali. I guess I am the only exception. For some strange reason, I never took any fancy with them since childhood. I say strange because I have started to like them a little now, even though there are only few types of preparation that I like now. I had a friend in my class who once commented that no self-respecting Bengali can not like prawns. Well I think that makes me a self-loathing Bengali :p But I am not. Sumi, on the other hand, simply adores them.
Lately Sumi and I have noticed that our vegetable intake has reduced a great deal. Due to us following the low carb diet the easiest way has been blindly consuming chicken. The veggies which contributes most to our diet are mostly premium ones in terms of price. Moreover Sumi hates vegetables other than potato. Especially when most of the time we can have just boiled veggies. As you guys might know, the wife is the “king” of the house so I just have never been able to force her to have more veggies.
Well its been a long time and we have not added any recipe. One of the reason being Sumi and me being on a low-carb diet. Since its really a challenge to do it in Indian cuisine leave alone Bengali, we had to invent lots of dishes. I mean not invent but rather bend them to our tastes. One of the major problems of a low carb diet is what everyone calls a carb crash. Its just a good way of saying I cant take it anymore 
Well we had it too. And when we had it one such day we thought of having our all time favorite snack. There are various ways of making Poha. But we prefer having it with Bread, the reason being its easy to make. Oh and did I say its tasty 
Bhindi is one of the most lovable vegetables in India. I dont know why because its not exactly my favourite but I dont hate it too. There is a saying that people who love Bhindi are very intelligent. I figure thats why I was never the top student of my class. It was really a hot day and Sumi was in her bad mood hehehehe. So we went vegetable shopping and there was this set of Okra almost smiling at her (I think so) and Sumi got impressed by their smile (I think this too) because that instant she bought full 500 grams of it. Yes my bad luck. This would be tonight’s dinner 
But to Sumi’s credit it actually ended up quite tasty Hope you enjoy it too.
An all-time favorite with almost all North-Indian households is Aloo Gobi which simply means a Potato Cauliflower preparation There are various methods of preparation for this and the below is a sample. Sumi always tries so many varieties for this. We felt this was tasty enough to be a starter recipe for our site LOL.
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