Chinese menu – Stir fried chicken with baby corn and mushrooms & Egg Fried Rice

It was getting late and I had not decided on the dinner menu, so I peeped in the fridge and realized I have stuff to dish out a quick stir fry and fried rice. So here they are -fast to make, good to eat recipes.

Stir fried chicken with baby corn and mushrooms

You will need

Stir Fried Chicken with baby corns and Mushrooms
Stir Fried Chicken with baby corns and Mushrooms

150 gms button mushrooms cut into quarters
150 gms boneless chicken
2 Carrots cut lengthwise
1 Green pepper cut in square shape
2/3 garlic cloves – crushed
50 gms baby corn cut lengthwise
Fish sauce
Oil
Salt
Pepper
Sugar
Cornflour -1 tbsp
Water or chicken stock Continue reading Chinese menu – Stir fried chicken with baby corn and mushrooms & Egg Fried Rice

Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

After the morning game drive at Manyara national park, we proceeded towards the Serengeti National park which is about 200 kms and 4 hours of drive through the beautiful Ngorongoro caldera rim.  Serengeti gets it’s name from the Masaii language word “seringitu” which means endless plains. The Serengeti plains are formed because of the volcanic … Continue reading Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania

Our plane was about to descend and I caught my breath as I saw a peak, completely covered with snow  rising above the clouds. It was Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. As we touched down and taxied we spotted a few Zebras grazing along the runway (we later learned it was a private … Continue reading Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania

Kenya Airways – Harrowing experience

On 23rd May, 2010 I and Tarique were booked business class to fly from Nairobi to Mumbai. We took our boarding passes, and went to the lounge. The lounge itself was cramped and stuffy, but we endured. Around 4 PM we went out to check out the duty free shops and we heard boarding announcement … Continue reading Kenya Airways – Harrowing experience

16 years to that hot, sweaty, happy afternoon

Tere bin sanu sonya koi hor naiyo labhna jo deve ruh ko sukun chukke jo nakhra mera… It was 11.30 AM, we had finished signing that register, but it did not sink in till we sat together in the gypsy with my father-in-law and an aunt that we are now married. It had taken us … Continue reading 16 years to that hot, sweaty, happy afternoon

Coastal Kutch : Naliya Mandvi and Motwa

Very close to Banni grasslands is a place called Naliya, also called as Kutch Bustard Sanctuary, one of the very few places in India where the Great Indian Bustard is still found. While we did not get lucky to spot the GIB, the beautiful black partridge numerous raptors satiated our birdwatching appetite. After scouring the … Continue reading Coastal Kutch : Naliya Mandvi and Motwa

Ayn Rand: Goddess of the market

Every serious reader I have ever met has read at least one of  Ayn Rand’s best selling novels “Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged” and most of the people I met have had strong opinions about her and her philosophy. I was 20 when I read “Fountainhead” and the words of Ayn Rand molded my thoughts and … Continue reading Ayn Rand: Goddess of the market

CHAPTER IV – GENESIS

“ Hello Nadeem, I have really missed you”. Her greetings took me back to the day I had first set my eyes on her. It was our first day in a well known management institute in western India. The sitting plan was put up outside for the red bricked, high ceiling semi circular lecture hall. … Continue reading CHAPTER IV – GENESIS

CHAPTER III – REPRISE

I peer through the gathering haze into my laptop to read the FB message ‘Hi Nadeem,  Howz life treating you’; darkness slowly engulfs me. I hear a door open followed by a high pitched scream but on the threshold of new world, I may have well been mistaken. And I don’t care. Heaven (or Hell?) … Continue reading CHAPTER III – REPRISE

CHAPTER II – REQUIEM

Eternity is a long long time. And I could feel my temporal resolve weakening as I waited for her response on the Facebook. It is surprising how life can obsessively revolve around waiting for a single response on the Facebook. My Blackberry had the account, the office computer had the site opened and minimized as … Continue reading CHAPTER II – REQUIEM