Well then! I
had taken it up as a challenge like always!
It was a
genuine blow on my booming confidence when Sohini challenged me on an open
ended competition that dealt with pampering our respective taste buds. It
resembled a challenge that an apprentice had DARED to undertake.
The results
were as devastating as expected yet it added some valuable experience to my armory which had never dared to improvise. I would rather go back to my college days;
being termed as Mr.Omelette, I used to be my roomies’ sole resort on the day
before the semester. There was no one else in the Hall who could cook as good
an omelette as I used to...Not boasting by the way!
That adds all
the more reason for this out-burst. Dude, the hero from college faces defeat on
his debut challenge again a woman? Not done!
And as they
say, GOD always throws in a couple of fixing chances; the opportunity to build
on your “past” errors and script a leading example.
I had been
recently transferred to Shillong owing to a critical assignment led by the
Department of Commercial Taxes when I realized that staying all alone was not a
good idea. And especially when your cook doesn’t seem to understand even a bit
of Hindi or English, your job gets tougher.
Weekends in
the Hills seemed to be the worst scenario; nothing to do, nowhere to go, nobody
to talk to- And guess what, nothing to eat except the tasteless Rajma and those
“pale” Momo(s)...It’s better to walk up to the Seven Sisters Falls and indulge
in a full-fledged dive! Sigh! NOT TO BE!
The trauma had
no signs of settling down either. The worst scenario, INDEED, was a
self-dictated “attack” by the client...there was ABSOLUTELY no reason why the
SeMT head had to come in un-invited for dinner; he had a rye smile on his face
that complicated my woes.
With
absolutely NOTHING in the kitchen; I had to resort to my
friend-philosopher-and-guide MOM, to save the tide and what she sent across
over the email within the next half an hour was EPIC.
All she said
was to “keep it simple” yet add that bit of spark into the frying pan; it
should be a street smart recipe to say the least and here you go!
*PAD
THAI NOODLES*
Ingredients:
·
Noodles
RECIPE:
1. Boil noodles, drain the water away and
set it aside by mixing it with little amount of Fortune Rice Bran Oil.
2. Mix red chilli, garlic, ginger and make a smooth paste of it in mixer grinder.
3. Take a wok, heat it up in low flame and add Palm sugar, little water, tamarind juice, and the chilli paste already made and heat it till a smooth, uniform sauce forms. Set it aside.
4. Take a wok, add Fortune Rice Bran Oil and heat it up. Add prawns and little amount f broth and stir fry it. Add eggs, scramble it. Add some more Fortune Rice Bran Oil and finally the boiled noodles to it. Stir fry the whole thing and add the pad thai sauce to it, salt and chilli flakes. Set it aside.
5. Take some Fortune Rice Bran Oil in a fresh heated pan and add chopped peanuts and all the freshly chopped herbs to it and stir fry. Add this herb mix to the noodles and serve it hot.
6. Last but not the least, Fortune Rice Bran Oil is the heart of the "solution", this is an imperative ingredient that forms the base of this recipe or rather the back-bone. It's time to "take this to the cleaners"
Dunno what that meant. I blindly followed her instructions.
2. Mix red chilli, garlic, ginger and make a smooth paste of it in mixer grinder.
3. Take a wok, heat it up in low flame and add Palm sugar, little water, tamarind juice, and the chilli paste already made and heat it till a smooth, uniform sauce forms. Set it aside.
4. Take a wok, add Fortune Rice Bran Oil and heat it up. Add prawns and little amount f broth and stir fry it. Add eggs, scramble it. Add some more Fortune Rice Bran Oil and finally the boiled noodles to it. Stir fry the whole thing and add the pad thai sauce to it, salt and chilli flakes. Set it aside.
5. Take some Fortune Rice Bran Oil in a fresh heated pan and add chopped peanuts and all the freshly chopped herbs to it and stir fry. Add this herb mix to the noodles and serve it hot.
6. Last but not the least, Fortune Rice Bran Oil is the heart of the "solution", this is an imperative ingredient that forms the base of this recipe or rather the back-bone. It's time to "take this to the cleaners"
Dunno what that meant. I blindly followed her instructions.
Phew! And the REST?
................. Was HISTORY!
All I can say is that it took him a couple of hours to approve our last pending payment!
................. Was HISTORY!
All I can say is that it took him a couple of hours to approve our last pending payment!
Now you can "tax" your taste buds as much as you wish to ;)
Annnnnnnd....on the negative aspect, "he" became my permanent uninvited guest! What a waste :D
* This post is a part of Healthy & Tasty Recipe Contest with Fortune Rice Bran Health Oil & BlogAdda.com
