Thai curry Chicken - green curry

You need:
1 lb chicken - cut up into tiny pieces
Trader Joe's Thai Green Curry simmer sauce - 1 bottle

To marinate:
Marinate the chicken in salt, ginger garlic paste and soya sauce for about 20-30 mins

Fry the marinated chicken in 2 tbsp of oil in high flame for about 10-15 mins - until its all cooked.
Add the sauce and bring to boil - all done! :)

Pepper Chicken

You'll need:
Chicken wings/legs/breast fillets (2.2 lbs - 1kg)
Finely chopped onions - 2
Diced Tomatoes - 2 (or 7oz - half a can)
Pepper - 1.5 tbsp
Salt - 1 tbsp

Heat 3 tbsp of oil in a pan. Switch to simmer for the rest of the show.
Saute onions till light brown.
Add the chicken (you can marinate it in a lil bit of salt and very little pepper) pieces - saute for a couple mins.
Add the tomatoes, salt and pepper - saute for another 3-4 mins.
Mix everything and cover the lid and let cook on simmer for about 15 mins.
Open periodically to stir the chicken around so it doesn't burn form below.
Check if the chicken is tender enough - if not, keep it covered for a bit longer until its tender.
Once done, open the lid and dry out the gravy.

All done! Garnish with a lil spring onions and basil leaves and serve!

Paneer Capsicum

Paneer capsicum - in under 30 mins!

Paneer - cut up in cubes
Peppers - strips (frozen)
Onions - half, chopped
Jeera
Mustard
Ginger-garlic paste
Diced tomato - 2 spoons
Dhanya leaves
Salt, Haldi and Chilli powder

Cut up the paneer pieces, and marinate in salt, turmeric powder and some chilli powder.
Fry the paneer on a medium flame for 10 mins until it starts to brown slightly. Keep aside.
In a pot, heat oil and add mustard seeds, jeera and some chilli powder.
Once the mustard seeds start to pop, add the onions and fry on medium flame till they start to brown.
Add salt, jeera powder, dhanya powder and lil more chilli powder.
Fry for about 5-7 mins.
Add ginger garlic paste - cook for couple mins
Then add tomatoes - cook for another couple mins.

Now add the pepper strips - mix it up with the spices and saute for 3 mins.
Add the paneer cubes and mix the peppers/spices with the paneer.
Cover and cook for 5-6 mins.

Add fresh dhanya leaves.
Serve hot!

Wearing the boyfriend blazer

The boyfriend blazer is probably the most adorable look I've noticed this fall.
I wear my Banana Republic 3/4th sleeve beige boyfriend blazer over a simple white or yellow tank, pink burnout tee.
They go well with almost anything. For a casual look, you can dress down the blazer by pairing it with something less formal - charcoal shorts (with the top tucked in a braided belt) are the cutest! 3/4th denims or denim skirts go well too.
Wear a scarf round your neck or chain necklaces.
You could dress it up by wearing it over a dress or a jumpsuit too!
They look best with high pumps or booties. But you could even wear converse sneakers and look super cute :)

Paneer Manchurian

You'll need:
Paneer - cut in small cubes
Half onion - cut in thin long pieces
1 green Capsicum
2 cups of Corn Flour
Manchurian paste - 100g
1 tbsp chilli paste

How to make:
In a bowl, mix 7-8 tbsp of corn flour, chilli paste and water to make a thick paste. Dip the paneer cubes in this paste and deep fry in pan till they turn golden brown. Keep aside.
In a pan, fry oinions and capsicum till onions turn golden brown. Keep aside.
In a saucepan, take 1/2 cup of the Manchurian paste, 1/2 cup water and bring to boil.
Add 2 tsp flour and 6 tsp water to make the gravy a little thick. Simmer for couple mins.
Add the fried paneer and onions + capsicums to the gravy. Mix gently.
Serve hot! :)

The end of a dream

Its wednesday. T-3 days before I say goodbye to my favorite city in the world! Bellevue, WA!!
Yep - it feels like the end of an era!
Well my boyfriend and I have been in a long distance relationship for over two years, and shockingly we were more comfortable with the arrangement than we should've been! So we figured that one of us needs to move to tighten the knots! -Lol..no I'm kidding ;)
Well, it seemed to be taking forever to get a job that I wanted, a job I'd leave Microsoft for! And then after five months of applying/studying/interviewing/more studying/more interviewing, I went ahead and accepted an offer. And then began the legal procedures, selling furniture, packing, planning...
By the time I got to step back and catch a breath, its already the end of June and I have a week left to really think about all that I'm leaving behind!
Microsoft has been and will always a be a dream for me - even in a world of Google, Facebook and Apple! Microsoft is magnificent, and its a pity really, that I have to leave!

Seattle - wet and gorgeous! Makes you fall in love! The smell of rain - becomes a part of you! The one place you need to have lived to know how wonderful it really is - its where I met some of the most interesting people I have and will know for a long time. The last one year has been everything and more, than I'd anticipated my life in a quaint city like this to be! The mad parties, the insane games, the love, the friendships - the one place we could all be ourselves to the point we'd lost the idea of boundaries! We became so close, talked about anything under the sun, acquired new tastes, picked up new habits - we've made a whole ecosystem!
And then there's my life itself - living alone, my own choices, my freedom, my independence - everything I wanted to do, I did my way. Seattle was the first place I realized I could be on my own, and take the weight of anyone that needed me! The lone hours I've spent at the waterfront, my thoughts and myself... drive in the whee hours, giving me the confidence to go anywhere I wanted... the lone glasses of wine, sometimes some whiskey... playing my guitar to the new songs on the radio, sometimes a few classics...
Too many memories, too much pain.
My little life here has given me too much to forget, and now I have a week to soak in all that this city has to give me. Seattle will always have a very special place in my heart.

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