Recipes

A quick, filling midweek meal you can make from economical store-cupboard ingredientsWhen I was growing up, this traditional Bengali curry was our go-to store-cupboard dish – the thing we made when there wasn’t any decent fish at the market or we’d forgotten to defrost some chicken. It was made with ingredients we always had and I used to think of it as the poor cousin of the richer meat dishes we had at other times. Nowadays, I remember it far more fondly: a gentle, nutritious and filling meal and, most importantly of all, a taste of home. Continue reading...

While we totally get how weekends are sacrosanct, taking an hour out or two to explore the rapidly-evolving culinary scene around you is always a good idea. More so, as mid-February seems like the right time to step out, soak up the slight nip in the air, and tantalise your taste buds to new menus across the town. Scroll away for fail-safe food recommendations to get the most bang for your buck.  Mumbai Stop By Veronica’s For A Foodgasm View this post on Instagram A post shared by Veronica’s (@veronicasbombay) Precisely three years since the launch of the uber-popular Bombay...

It’s a veritable fancy vending machine feast! It seems like I was just taking down the Kabuki Day decorations when Cat Day came along on 22 February and took me by surprise. They really should combine those holidays into some sort of Catbuki Day. As awesome as that idea sounds, we’ll have to put it on the back burner for now because a big Cat Day development took place in the town of Kumatori in Osaka Prefecture. We recently reported on a Suntory vending machine that replaced some buttons with little cat paws. While adorable, cats themselves don’t want to...

Jess Welcome to another week of crowdfunding projects! Let’s see what games we might back! Alpujarras And Fisheries Of Gloucester This campaign is launching on the 27th, but I’m so excited for new Dr. Finn games that I can’t help but throw it on here in anticipation. Alpujarra is a farming game set in medieval Spain. To win, earn the most silver coins by irrigating your land, growing fruit, and delivering it to the hillside villages. The game uses an action track where you can move as far as you like, but the player who is furthest behind takes the...

The spotlight's shining brightly on Olivia Cooke these days -- largely due to her quietly powerful role as Alicent Hightower in HBO's "House of the Dragon."(Of course, the viral video in which she and co-star Emma D'arcy trade cocktail preferences certainly helped to sway the public.) But for those who have been paying attention, Cooke has consistently demonstrated an eclectic taste for projects and a scene-stealing presence right from the get-go.The Oldham-born actress, whose natural British accent isn't often used on-screen, has starred in an impressive amount of television and film projects since her feature film debut in 2012's "The Quiet...