Mixed Vegetables Curry

Ingredients

Brinjal

Tomatoes

Long beans

Potatoes

Lady's finger

Chinese parsley

Red onions

Garlic

Cooking oil

Chili powder

Turmeric powder

Coriander powder

Tamarind juice

Salt

Mono sodium glutamate (MSG)

Cooking Time : 50 - 60 minutes

~ Heat up oil in the cooking pot over a medium heat.

~ Add the coarsely chopped red onions and garlic . Saute for about a minute 

   before adding in turmeric powder, chili powder and coriander powder. Give it 

   a stir and let it cook for about 2-3 minutes.

~ Add in the potatoes cubes and stir well. Add a little bit of water, cover with

   the lid and cook for about 8-10 minutes over a medium heat.

~ Add the brinjal cubes and tomatoes slices to the mixture and give it a gentle

   stir. A little bit of water is added in. Again, cover with the lid and let it cook 

   for another 5-7 minutes.

~ Add in the lady's finger pieces as well as long bean pieces to the mixture and

   stir gently. Add a bowl of water and let it cook for about 12-15 minutes.

~ Season the vegetables curry with salt, MSG and tamarind juice. Stir and

   spread chopped Chinese parsley on top. Cover with the lid and let it simmer

   for 10-15 minutes on low heat.

The delicious mixed vegetables curry!

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Pickled leaves of Three-leaved caper salad recipe (ခံတက္ခ်ဥ္သုပ္)

ခံတက္ခ်ဥ္( gade' chin) : Three-leaved caper ; Garlic pear, the leaves of which are pickled

Pickled leaves of Three-leaved caper salad recipe

Ingredients:

     
 Thinly sliced pickled leaves

Thinly sliced red onion

  Pounded dried shrimps

      Fried crispy onions and oil

       Toasted chick peas powder

A pinch of monosodium glutamate(MSG)

Mix the ingredients well and that's it!

Sprinkle more of fried crispy onions on top of the salad before serving.

Easy preparation for one of the exotic flavours of Myanmar (Burma).

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Philosophy of life

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Coffee with Mark Twain

How would you describe yourself as a writer?  Are you a humorist?

No, I'm not a humorist - though i often use humor - but a satirist, a moralist, and a teacher. A key characteristic of the human species is its inability to learn, so the attempt to teach has its strict limits. Keep in mind that clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society. That's a humorous comment, isn't it? But it's also satirical and moralistic. It tries to influence people not to be naked, by which i mean you've got to wear clothes of some kind or other because naked anything, especially the naked truth, isn't acceptable. But it's nakedness - frankness, honesty, sincerity - that should be respected. Our society, though, isn't comfortable with that. People don't want to see or hear or read nakedness. So humor helps a writer disguise and make more palatable what he wants to say. Of course, if it's nothing but humor, it stops there.

Didn't you get some advantage from being labeled a humorist?

For a good part of my career, especially until the 1890s, readers labeled me as a humorist, by which they meant i was funny and mostly harmless. My wife resented that i was being classified as a lightweight - that's what being a humorist meant. Still, it was humor that often brought in the audiences, and when they stayed they got plenty more than humor. They got some truths about the human condition. I always kept in mind as a writer and human being that to be good is noble, but to show others how to be good is nobler, and no trouble.

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