Ushnishda, please dont change the style of your writing and the posts. we love the way you put the introduction and your sense of humour.
Kumro chakka amar bhishon favourite amio narkel di tabe kuchono. apnartao darun dekhte.
Dear Ushnishda,
You pl. continue with your introduction, I thoroughly love it...whoever dosnt want to read, they can scroll down to recipe anytime..Komror chakka darun hoyeche dekhte...love the idea of adding coconut..Im also thinking of making it soon
i have never had this kumro chakka and want to try this right now, kumra being such a fave of mine...n i am going to follow the recipe to the T.
who is that person ( semi foe or otherwise ) who says you should not write the preamble...just tell me...
Dear PJ
Very well said , the last line. Please try this dish, very simple traditional bengali dish, a common man's dish you can say.
You must be getting many varieties, Try to get a slight sweet variety onem that we get mostly in India.
Have a nice day
Although the pumpkin pie is very much an American invention and tradition, the importance of a pumpkin spans continents. The pumpkin, or kumro, as it is referred to in Bengali, has also found a loving home in Bengali cuisine as kumror chakka. It is a dish that can be made all the year round, and Ma always makes it when I go home to Kolkata for the winter holidays. Mothers have a way of making simple things special, and whether as pumpkin pie or as kumror chakka, the pumpkin is a song sung in two languages, meaning home to both my husband and I.
The pie has a distinctive taste, which both Mom and my husband were hard put to describe to me as I have never tasted it. Just like my regard for the kumror chakka, I am led to conjecture that my husband probably likes the pumpkin pie because of its delicate balance of flavours, as we are often enough two peas in a pod in terms of our tastes and preferences. Mom will make it once more towards the end of the year for her Christmas dinner. But it is at Thanksgiving that her pumpkin pie, in spite of the rather limelight-hogging turkey, is the cynosure of all eyes.
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