A cup of Assam Tea

There are days when my taste buds ask for something rustic, rugged, totally country style, something that brings that nostalgic flavor, more precisely, brings me to our home kitchen in Assam, my grandma's kitchen, my mama's kitchen. Yup, sesame chicken is in my mind. My Assamese taste buds are so amicable with till or sesame seeds; name a festival or staple cooking time, and it is a desirable ingredient. I love that in today's new age, healthy cooking promotes and incorporates seed-eating, especially sesame, for numerous health benefits, which I was fortunate enough to grow up eating. Once you taste this exotic dish with its rustic and nutty flavor, you will definitely try it again. Today I am sharing my recipe.. Have you tried Assamese Chicken Curry . Ingredients 2 lb chicken cut into medium-sized pieces with bone 5 tablespoons of till or sesame 3 tablespoons mustard oil or olive oil, you can use any other cooking oil too but I love to use thick oil as...

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, most of us are almost losing our sanity. However, going outdoors with proper precautions and spending some time in nature can help unwind and uplift the mood a little.  A few weeks back, I was mesmerized in the  Rose Garden .    Behold...about 30 miles south of Hartford, the capital of Connecticut, enfolds a little slice of a dream called Lavender Pond Farm in Killingworth, CT.  Well, bedded with demure, scented, delicate, and colored thousands of lavender flowers, they bring smiles to anyone's face and enlighten the mind to melt away your stress level. In a white gazebo in the center, where you can gaze at the lavender or capture photo moments, benches to sit, and colorful beehives, smitten by the beauty of flowers, are just not the only facts that make you fall in love with this place. But an exotic pond with water lilies and a little covered bridge, a scenic walk to unfold the se...

The alluring and entrancing architectural delight on both sides of Asylum Avenue, West Hartford, as you approach Elizabeth Park, evokes a sense of serenity and peace within. Elizabeth Park's greenery and lots of unique and interesting variety of tree tapestry and ponds are a nature lover's or hiker's delight, or someone like me who often, at this time of the year, visits when the blooms of the roses create a rhapsody of colors in the Rose Garden at Elizabeth Park.                 Meticulously and aesthetically put together rose arches, gazebos, and a vivid variety and color of blooming roses can take your breath away at first sight. Widely known for wedding and engagement photoshoots, this park can be an ideal picnic spot. Home to 15,000 rose bushes and 800 varieties of roses across 2.5 acres of the park, it is the oldest municipal rose garden in the United States and the third-largest in the country. It was opened i...