The art of stir fry

The ancient Chinese style of quickly sautéing vegetables and bits of poultry, meat, or seafood has its own yin and yang. The first part of the process is slow, relaxed, and almost meditative (cutting the vegetables and other ingredients into bite-size pieces; mincing the garlic, ginger, herbs, etc.; mixing the sauce so it's ready and waiting), and the second part is fast and frenetic as you quickly toss the sizzling ingredients, adding the sauce at the last minute so your don't boil away the ingredients' freshness.

Resulting in extremely crunchy , deliciously green greens (beans etc), vibrant sunny yellows(carrots etc), very low on oil content and non of the soggy lumpy overcooked gunk that im kinda fed up of having.

And at the expense of rexy screaming 'just use that word just once more and ..!!'
let me emphasise...on the texture


you chew and you know what your eating.
Beans taste like beans and carrots like themselves.
Self sufficient individuals who are not lost in a brownish gravy of onions and zeera and blah!!!

Its like attitude on your plate.

street light on CIT Road.

home sweet home

Slurp!!

Carrot cake at a hilltop cottage in manali.

Swan Lake

Swan Lake was the first of Tchaikovsky's three great ballets
The history of the ballet itself is shaky. Tchaikovsky originaly wrote a ballet for his sister's children, based on a popular Russian fairy tale entitled "Lake of the Swans." Little did Tchaikovsky know that he would be be commisioned years later by two great masters of Russian ballet, Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, to compose a score for a new full-length ballet based on the same tale.

Detailed posting on the ballet itself in a later post(hopefully after iv heard it)If the music is so heavenly, I wonder how ethereal watching the ballet must be.
Enjoy a snippet for now.





Swan Lake tells the story of young Prince Siegfried, who falls in love with the Swan Queen Odette, a woman transformed into a bird by an evil sorcerer. Odette explains that she is destined to remain a strange composite creature, until rescued by a man's undying love.

Enthralled by her beauty, The Prince pledges his eternal love - but later, at a party in honor of his 21st birthday, he is tricked by the sorcerer, von Rothbart, into declaring his love for Odile, an evil twin of Odette. Realizing his inadvertent betrayal, the Prince rushes back to the lake. There, he battles Von Rothbart, and destroys his power. The lovers are then reunited.

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