Stir Fried Veggies

My trip to Delhi is always full of food...shopping and some more food. This time it was more of food and less of shopping...but we did go to Sarojini market (how can I avoid a trip to Sarojini...its the ultimate shopper’s paradise).This time I was invited to my fren “A’s” aunt house and made some really good mixed veg. subzi and we went to my fav. restaurant in Delhi "Nanking" at Vasant Kunj, the food was awesome and as usual I ended up eating much more then I could have ate in a whole week.....we had this stir fried beans and that gave me some great idea abt making stir fried veggies at home, so I bought loads of green veggies which are normally not available in Agartala, like Brocolli, spring onions, button mushroom, corn and few other things like cheddar cheese, oyster sauce and yeah...chicken pickles. I made this really yummy stir fried veggies and gawd it was heaven….I was using oyster sauce for the first time…though I am not cooking often these days….all thanks to the March end blues...which has kept me so busy and also in this heat and humid weather, my kitchen becomes a room oven.

The stir fried veggies was simple to cook…it was 15 mins effort, healthy and really yummy. If only the ingredients were available here..I could have made this often.

Yaoshang @ Delhi

I celebrated yaoshang, the Meitei version of Holi after 3 yrs. Their was a time when holi was the most exciting festival and I really used to look forward for this festival the whole year....as it meant getting new cloths, going for the

"nakadheng", playing with colors,watching the yaoshang sports in the leikei club, yaosahang thabal chongba and the yaoshang chak-chanaba...which was the most exciting part abt Yaoshang...every house in our locality contribute money and organise a grand feast.

Yaoshang is not as exciting as it was earlier, I am busy with work and I prefer staying home as it means an off day for me. This time I celebrated yaoshang at JNU with my fren "A" and her frens from Germany, who have come for an exchange programme, we did yaoshang shopping together and it was sure exciting. The germans were totally into playing holi and me and "A" gave them tips to play safe holi...I stayed away from playing with the group but enjoyed every moment of it. The day I reached Delhi the Meitei students @ JNU had organised Thabal Chongba and I participated after manyyyy years....the last time I attended any thabal chongba was at the Police Grounds-North Campus in 2004. I enjoyed thobal chongba after so many years...though I am not as good as I was but it was awesome.