CookingJagonews24's lifestyle desk published a recipe on 17 May 2026 for thin masoor dal cooked with ridge gourd, a light hot-season dish made with one tablespoon of oil and a few everyday spices, served with rice.
CookingOn 15 April 2026, as a mild heatwave spread across western Bangladesh, Jagonews24's lifestyle desk offered a light lunch dish: ridge gourd and potato cooked in poppy seed paste with mustard oil and green chillies.
VegetablesTomato, aubergine, chilli, bottle gourd, water spinach, Malabar spinach, lettuce and broccoli can all be grown in pots on a city roof or balcony, given loose soil, drainage holes, steady watering and organic rather than banned chemical pest control.
An expatriate hobby farmer in Cumilla Sadar Dakshin has harvested one and a half maunds of ridge gourd in a month from wooden boxes on his rooftop.
