Guest Post: 4 Step Recipe – Beef Shorshe Tehari

Brought to you by Zuzu’s Sweet & Savory. Ingredients: 1kg beef (cut into small cubes) 1kg rice (soaked in water for 1hr) 1 cup sliced onion ½ cup sliced onion- for rice 2 tbsp mustard seed powder 1½ tbsp fenugreek powder 4 tbsp garam masala powder 2 tbsp ginger and garlic paste ½ cup yogurt…

Guest Post: 4 Step Recipe – Paneer Tikka

Ingredients: 250 gms Fresh Paneer from Paneer Factory Dhaka 1 tsp Tikka Masala Powder 2 tbsp Tok Doi 1 tbsp Lime Juice 1/2 tsp Ginger Powder 1/2 tsp Garlic Powder 1/2 tsp Red Chilli Powder 1/2 tsp Salt (to taste) 1 tbsp Mustard Oil 10 Wooden Skewers 1 tbsp Ghee Instructions: Step 1: Take the fresh…

Guest Post: Summer Mango Cream Tart by Sugar Rush

This Summer Mango Cream Tart by Sugar Rush is the perfect seasonal slice of heaven and it will be available at the “Jete Chao? presents Cookups Night Bazaar” for everyone to enjoy! A perfect Mixture of Sweet, Crumbly, Zesty tang, you must try to make your own version at home! To learn more exciting recipes…

Scallops with Lemon Butter Sauce and Butter Parmesan Spaghetti

So a few mornings ago I woke up and the first thing I saw on my FB feed was one of those recipe videos about scallops. And its been a along time since I had scallops (well, non-sashimi ones, anyway) so I got a craving. I went to the German butcher and got some frozen…

Guest Post: CurlyWholeWanky’s Paleo Beef Stew

Bio: When she isn’t slaving away as a CSE student, Anika Farha can be found slaving away in the kitchen. The only thing these two have in common is how passionate she is about both. From faincy salmon dinners to chicken and beef bone broth, find her and her yummy, healthy delicacies on IG @curlywholewanky, on Cookups, and now…

The Not-So-Nice Nicoise

Salads. They are always a pain-in-the-ass to transport or make ahead of time. But given my recent weight gain after the Vietnam trip (my god, the street food!), it had to be done. We had some cans of tuna lying around so I decided to go with a Nicoise Salad. The Nicoise originally hails from…

Corned Beef Hash Bash

After moving back from the US, corned beef hash has always been something I dreamed of but seldom made. It’s that perfect brunch food that you never get in Bangladesh, which is strange, considering it’s a very Bangali, (beef and alu bhaji) kinda dish as far as taste. I had it on the menu back…

Not-so-sucky Moussaka (Gluten-free)

Moussaka. The name screams “girly boy.” I mean lets be real — no self respecting mysogynist would be caught dead eating something with eggplants and raisins. However, in our constant battle with health vs. waist-wealth, the Cosmic Chef and I’ve recently decided to go gluten-free for as long as possible, and moussaka is basically like a lasagna…

Chicken Roast Chicken

I’m chicken about chicken. It usually always turns out… well… too chicken-y. Plus its so… plebeian. But I was cooking for a large group, Psycho Chef had just made beef the other day, and a whole host of other excuses, so I decided to go for roast chicken. And not be chicken about it. My…

Khulna Crab n’ Coconut Curry

So I picked up some frozen crab from the supermarket a few days ago. Although it may have been frozen, its of the local variety. As you may or may not know, Bangladesh exports crab from the Sunderbans. Last time I went down to Khulna with my dad I managed to get some live crab back…