sundarban

been to sunderban?

the largest mangrove forest of the world?

the last surviving natural habitat for beautiful royal Bengal tigers?
then you can probably recognise the picture above the vast expanse of Ganges lined by sundari trees.
and you would also probably be familiar with worn out tiger-jokes
"there ! there!"

why dont people try their creativity a bit?
here some brand new tiger joke i created
"when we were at sunderban, there this tiger was sleeping !"
(one of the 250 tigers must be sleeping during that time, wont it?)
here's another one~
"seen any tiger?"
"yeah"
(after a confused look by the asker)
"oh you mean here in the forest.. no"

so why am i writing very silly tiger jokes in the food blog?
a) i have some time to kill
b) our food for the trip

my expectation was not high at all. was prepared to eat something cooked in extra virgin petroleum. surprisingly,our cook(not indulging in stereotyping but he was probably from orissa), was a genius, made the trip specially interesting

honestly, he is one of best cook i have seen, and we were told that he has his idiosyncrasies

he would not cook until he is provided with all the spices he asked for.

sometimes ganja gets the better of him and he ends up cooking a recipe with a charcoal flavour.
anyway, no such untoward incident happened in this trip.

.... the mung dal with peas, mansur with tomatoe the alur dum the chicken, vegetables and even begun bhaja 'the aubergine fries' were excellent. of course i tried to figure out the secret. he puts about sixteen spices on average in a single dish and takes his time to cook and magaj (watermelon seeds, and of course brain too) would feature in almost all his recipes

n.b. this post is dedicated to all the dormant co-contributors of this blog