You can never imagine what using-up-to-the-bottom means if you never had this dish. Chhechki, as it is popular know throughout Bengal is an Indian form of the very popular Chinese style of cooking - stir fried. The softness of the gourd peel and potato pieces with the grainy texture of the whole mustard and poppy seed make this dish a must have. Try it out and you'll want more.

A perfect easy and simple breakfast for those lazy weekend mornings. If you have some left over rice from last night, then what's keeping you back. Go ahead, choose your favorite vegetables and add them to make this colorful breakfast to pamper your taste buds. Preparation time: 7min Cooking time: 10min

ও শিব কবে হবে কাল, নিম দিয়ে ছেচকি আম দিয়ে ডাল By definition, summer is a little away but the heat has already set in. The markets are flooded with raw mangoes. These sour tasting mangoes are a wonderful ingredient for varieties of Bengali recipes. Beat the Heat with Raw Mango Dal. Here's how to cook Aamer Daal in easy steps.

On the occasion of International women's Day, we have a guest post from Soma Chowdhury, who is pursuing her MS from Louisiana State University. She writes about Natun Alur Nirmaish Dam or curry of baby potato, a tweaked version of her mother's natun alur dom. We thank Soma for her contribution. Enjoy the recipe and let us (and Soma) know how it fared.

This is for intermediate skilled cooks, or mere amateurs who want to prove that given adequate instructions, they can cook (I fall in this category). You can have Dimer Devil for an exotic evening snack. I had this at lunch with steamed rice, musuri daal and ketchup. In short: the eggs are boiled and the yolks are removed, and re-stuffed with a mixture prepared from the yolk, boiled potato and some vegetables. The re-stuffed egg is then dipped in besan, then in bread crumbs and fried in oil. Read on for the complete recipe and pictures.

9 new posts for this month including the January Round-up. Starting from Bengali's favorite sandesh to the cake in microwave. The Valentine's week had a new recipe each day of the week. We also published our first product review, the Gits Karaisutir Kachuri mix. Though it was a free review, we got the products from the company. The festival of colors knocked at the end of the month and it was a pleasure to play with the colors after 3 long years.

This post reviews Gits Karaisutir Kachori mix. If you cook regularly, I'm sure you may want to take a break sometime and enjoy this ready to cook snack. In case you cook only occasionally, all the more reason to try it out. I mean, why spend half a day in kitchen preparing kachori when you can do the same using Gits Karaisutir Kachuri Mix in 20 minutes.

A Bong cant be separated from sweets, and not without reason. Sample soft rasogollas or smooth sandesh, and you would know. Sandesh is of several kinds. This post explains in easy steps how to prepare Strawberry Sandesh, which is a little twisted from the veritable way of preparing you general run of the mill kind sandesh. The curd cheese is sweetened and flavored with fresh strawberry puree to give the light pinkish tinge and the irresistible flavor of this dessert. Prepare it, have a bite and let me know how you fared. Bon Appetite!

Which is the best online resource for interesting links Bengali Food? Can't remember? Well, you can't find it because there isn't any. But there is a silver lining. Starting today, every alternate Saturday we'll talk about several interesting aspects of Bengali food - influence of popular culture, bengali food in bengal, outside bengal, heritage and history and issues of the day. Here's Potpourri Edition 1 for you. Please contribute and spread the word. P.S.: Cook Like a Bong clocked 1 lakh pageviews in 6 months and 100 facebook fans in 3 weeks. :)

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