Coming ALIVE!

Its funny how sometimes just such simple everyday ingredients that we use to cook can add that much needed and exciting extra zing, flavor to the daily kind of boring food menu. So the way it unfolded was that our helper Grace had made sauteed baby spinach with Garlic and chicken with some dry chilli's ..I wanted to have rice , but not plain boiled rice..there started the issue. I didn't know what I wanted to do with the rice,  but wanted it to look yum, have some beautiful colors and go with the overall food on the table. Taste a lil Indian and not very local hawker center type of food. Can you believe it, this is just rice an d look at the fuss! In Naina's shortcut language, I opened fridge, saw , took out and sizzlllleed the rice with the first 3 things that came to my hands.. I like to call it- Bose's version of ginger rice. I took some grated ginger which was religiously kept ready for my chai, took one bird eye red chilli also know as Thai red chilli hot a...

Its been a long long time since I wrote, but my recent visit to Vietnam has left me feeling so so so alive making me realise that I must continue to write and capture all the beautiful moments, thoughts and feelings as I live each experience, to be able to relive these with my family once I grow old and for my children to look back at once they grow older. The one thing that has stayed with me about the country is the warmth, the smiling faces, despite their past and history. People there were just so welcoming to all tourists who were there to explore their country, proud of what they create and where they belong. People there thought we were crazy to travel with a 2.5 month old into villages, and rickshaws and thanks to Anaya we got royal treatment :)  The holiday has just left me for wanting more , more of travel and more of life!