A Falguni platter: Cooking edible flowers
Falgun arrives in a flurry of yellow and I am pleased to share some popular Bengali recipes, in collaboration with Joyadrita Ragavendran Chatterjee, who shares her family specials from West Bengal.
18 February 2024, 11:38 AM
Recipes from around the world
The year 2024 arrived with a sudden cold wave that called for the warmest dishes one can conjure. As we bid adieu to this cold weather and look forward to the yellows of spring, we take advantage of the chilly evenings for the last of this season’s warm soups and pies. A Fearless Olive version of the recipes and a personal favourite to brighten your dinner tables. Have a lovely week!
4 February 2024, 11:14 AM
Delicious flavours from o par Bangla
This Durga Puja, I collaborated with Joyadrita Ragavendran Chatterjee from across the border to share some of her family favourites. Joyadrita grew up enjoying the culture of both East Bengal and West Bengal as her maternal side is from Bangladesh and her paternal side is from India.
15 October 2023, 11:26 AM
Recipes using Balsamic vinegar: Exploring its health benefits
From lowering blood sugar and pressure levels, increasing the ability to absorb vitamins in the body and reducing hypertension, balsamic vinegar denotes to the word balm-like. The following are some recipes that uses Balsamic vinegar.
10 July 2023, 08:48 AM
Meat recipes to try from around the world
Sometimes, after any enthusiastic grocery shopping, we are left with a lot of meat in the refrigerator. If you are tired of having meat dishes deshi style, these three recipes are the perfect cure for you.
10 July 2023, 07:32 AM
4 lamb recipes for Eid ul Azha
In our recipe column dedicated to the flavours of Eid, we invite you on a culinary journey through rich lamb dishes from around the world that will dazzle your taste buds.
19 June 2023, 07:09 AM
Recipes for Eid day special dishes
Allow me to navigate you through some of the most popular dishes eaten around the world to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr. From Anatolia to the Levant, we will rummage around our kitchen to look for ingredients that are readily available, to make something that offers your loved ones a different experience. Let the biriyanis and the shemai take a back seat for a change and dig into a large dish of rice and meat or get an overdose of Eid cookies. Above all, share your meals with loved ones and have a lovely Eid.
16 April 2023, 10:24 AM
Fusion Terminal – Bottling our local heritage
Bilimbi is a fruit unknown to many Bangladeshis; the same goes for jara lebu — a Sylheti citrus. Both these find a new avatar, along with local tomatoes, being transformed into sundried ones, coming together in a unique set of pickles from the house of Fusion Terminal.
22 February 2021, 18:00 PM
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, 18:00 PM
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, 18:00 PM
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, 18:00 PM
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, 18:00 PM
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, 18:00 PM
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, 18:00 PM
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, 18:00 PM
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, 10:33 AM
Shaaks on Baishakh
As the strong winds sweep across the country, heralding the beginning of the season for kal-Baishakhis and the end of yet another ...
11 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Fish tales!
Frozen or fresh, farm fish or coming straight from a river or the salty seas, fish is one of those ingredients we all have a place for in our kitchens.
25 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Winter Bounty - Vegetables Galore!
As winter chills set in and hot vapours rising from your bowl of soup are a welcome sight...
18 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Go green, go coconutty
As the year draws to an end, here are some fun mocktails you can serve during the many weddings, parties and social events coming up.
16 November 2015, 18:00 PM
Spice up your life!
“No man should die if he can afford cinnamon”… said someone in the 14th century! London dockyard workers were paid in cloves while the Roman soldiers were paid in salt, coining the term “a man worth his salt”.
21 September 2015, 18:00 PM
Making the best of beef
We approach that time of year when the age old Abrahmic custom of slaughtering a sacrificial animal means loads of meat and nothing but the smell of meat cooking and a table creaking with delicious food.
14 September 2015, 18:00 PM
More than just tea...
Enter the world of culinary delights where as a thoroughbred Bangladeshi, one would think we ace at pickling and know our achars well but wait… there is something called Tea pickle from across the Eastern borders in Myanmar!
7 September 2015, 18:00 PM
The Fearless Olive
So as you relish your bhuna khichuris with fried eggplants and your kamranga bhorta, allow me to offer a few dishes that do justice to the weather and can satiate these rainy day cravings. And above all, dishes that are healthy!
24 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Working up a salad
A vinaigrette is essentially a French dressing with three parts oil and one part vinegar in most cases that compose a dressing, which has the necessary grease to it and a touch of the ascorbic. Since the 19th century this has been
15 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Toasting to your health
The sun enters the vernal equinox and our collective plight with summer begins as the days get longer and our Dhaka traffic jams leave us melting in the sweltering blaze!
8 June 2015, 18:00 PM
A healthy twist to Pohela Baishakh
Of festivities and new beginnings, we welcome the first day of the Bangabdo 1422 with a splash of colours on our platter and tastes of the season to delight our palates.
14 April 2015, 08:33 AM
The healthy Easter Sunday!
Of bunnies and hares and colourful eggs in a basket, Easter Sunday arrives in Bangladesh in all its glory.
30 March 2015, 18:00 PM