If my father was sitting with me for what could have been his birthday dinner… he would be smiling with a lot of content for obvious reasons. The spread as you can see includes all his cherished seasonal produce including the Dussehri mangoes, fried fish and obviously tempered rice. We would have then hurried the…
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Dal ki Dulhan
If you grew up in a middle class – north Indian Muslim household, you probably know at least one Dulhan personally. An urdu term for a newly-wed woman, used and over-used in their address by the saas or the mother-in-law, forever more. My nani’s daughter- in- law was the Dulhan in our house and remained…
My desi gherkins.
Pickle, Gherkin or just Pickled Cucumber- depending upon where you are in the world; are sandwich staples and side accompaniments mostly. Unless you obviously want to gobble that entire thing down on its own. But as far as I can remember, my first interaction with gherkins was in first year of college, in Delhi, when…
Sil-Batán 