Fruit salad with a twist

Being at par with a Michelin starred chef in terms of cooking :) i tried my hand at making fruit salad with ice cream and mint and for the first time i was bowled over by my own creation.

Being choosy about food, i was prejudiced about certain fruits without even tasting them. So i thought this is a nice way of tasting them with ice cream and mint as a Savior in case i don't find a particular fruit interesting.

So I put all the diced fruits into a bowl and topped it with strawberry ice-cream generously and sprinkled powdered mint in the end. Easy way is to powder Polo mint :)

This made the less tolerable fruits edible with some cooling and minty effect in your mouth. Yummmm!!! You can also variate it adding honey on top or chocolate sauce on top of the ice cream.

Pain point: skinning and dicing the fruits. Otherwise its a five mins job and voila u have a health and tasty fruit salad ready for snacks or breakfast or post-dinner desert.

Heart Melt

When I had first got Sheru home from the jungle, I really didn't know what to expect or how to react. He was frail, scared, hungry and lost in the jungle. Since we didn't keep non veg at home. I just hoped I could be able to bottle feed this tiny creature to satiate his hunger pangs but was unsure if he would be even remotely interested in smelling the milk forget even actually drinking it. I thought of giving it a try! And Voila it took only few seconds for the bottle to get empty. He indeed was very hungry.

Even today he loves his bottle. Its a sight to watch him drink milk. While drinking he will stare up at you with his big eyes that will melt your heart!

Shakechilli's brain works faster than a computer

Now that Sheru has walked the red carpet for PETA, he has already started dreaming of becoming a star.

Sunday, 8 Jan 2012: Sheru has had a tub full of chicken and off for an afternoon nap.

He is dreaming of a press conference with him being the center of attraction. 

And giving flying kisses to the girls present there. Some habits never go away so easily especially being a casanova inspite of being an animal that too just a 1.5 yr old cub.

Its evening time. He has got up from his sleep and now wants to see himself and the press conference. He is getting restless and pestering me to switch on the TV. Shakechilli...

Sheru walks the red carpet for PETA

Sheru walking the red carpet for the PETA awards. 

The dress code for the event was dinner jacket. But as usual hez 1ce again not followed the protocol of the event and strutting in naked and feeling proud bout it (the look on his face says it all). :)

Atithi Devo Bhava! Kasab is God...

26/11 was a remarkable day in the Indian history. Terrorists came to India for an internship after undergoing an intensive training in Pakistan. They very well executed their training. As a mark of respect to the martyrs let’s wish a very happy 3^rd anniversary to the lone surviving terrorist in the battle - Ajmal Amir Kasab. The Indian Govt. has left no stones unturned to give a princely treatment to our country’s most favourite guest.

Firstly a special cell in Arthur Road jail worth Rs. 8 cr. was constructed just for him which was personally supervised by then home minister Jayant Patil. Another Rs 1.5 crore was spent on building a special prison ward inside J J Hospital. WTF!!! Our friend Mr. (then Union home minister) P Chidambaram too was personally monitoring the situation, particularly the security detail for Kasab. He was quoted as saying "Since we were able to catch Kasab alive, we were able to establish that he belonged to Pakistan. Given that, we are really not concerned about the cost.” Ya dude. Because you must not be knowing the pain of working hard and then paying taxes for safeguarding our friend from Pakistan. Athiti Devo Bhava!!!

And since our friend didn’t feel secure in the company of our Paandu Maamas, special Indo-Tibetan Border Police force was deployed for his security who coughs up a bill of around Rs 3.5 lakh per day. I am sure even our PM Mr. Manmohan Singh would be having cheaper security guards. And Oh ya how can I forget a secure chauffer-driver vehicle which incurs a cost of Rs. 1.5 cr.

Our guest is so secure that even if a rocket is launched nothing will happen to the cell where Kasab resides. Good care is taken in terms of food and medicines. Special arrangements of dry fruits and fruits are done during Ramzan fasting. If he falls ill, a team of specialist doctors is available for examining him on a daily basis to ensured that he maintains good health.

So friends lets join our hands and work hard so that we can earn more money and pay more taxes to the Indian Govt. as our Govt. is poor and cant keep up with the demands of our guests. So we need to contribute in the form of taxes. Tally-Ho