Aneeta’s
Fried Rice.
Ingredients
2 ½ small bowls of cooked
rice
½ chicken breast cubed
(chicken meat can substituted with mutton or beef)
2 teaspoons of
ginger-garlic-chili paste (this is 1 inch of ginger, 3 pips of garlic and 1 red
chili pounded together)
Salt to taste
½ teaspoon of black
pepper
2 tablespoons of meat
curry powder
1 medium onion, diced.
1 small bowl of mixed
vegetables (peas, corn and carrots)
A handful of fried ikan bilis (anchovies)
2 tablespoons of oil
Method
1. Slice the meat into ½ inch
lengths and marinate with 1 teaspoon of meat curry powder, salt and pepper.
2.
Heat up
oil in a wok. Add the ginger-garlic-chili paste and onion and stir until brown.
3.
Add the
rest of the meat curry powder and stir until fragrant.
4.
Add mix vegetables
and cook for about three minutes.
5.
Add the
meat and stir until cooked.
6.
Lastly,
add the rice and stir until it is properly coated with all the ingredients.
7. Remove from the wok and garnish with fried ikan bilis.
How to Tell a Great Story – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat and Think With Your Taste Buds – Desserts
‘The
art of storytelling is not just about standing before a whole lot of
people and saying the first thing that pops into your head. It is about
communicating your thoughts, ideas and vision to people in an effective
manner. It is about sharing your opinion with someone else. It is
about recording your own history for future generations.’
When
I first started reading How to Tell A Great Story I thought to myself
“I write cookbooks so this book won’t pertain to me.” Wrong! This is
one of the most informative books I’ve ever read pertaining to writing
and that’s all forms of writing as well as speaking. By including
speaking I want to point out that no matter what your topic, when you
stand in front of someone you are a “story teller.” Whenever you start a
conversation you perform all of the steps of telling a story. You have
a theme or topic. There is a purpose in what you are saying and your
conversation will have at least one character. How well your
conversation, story or presentation is presented is determined by how
strongly you emit your theme, purpose and characters. And this is what
Aneeta Sundararaj will teach you in her book How to Tell a Great Story.
She shows how to effectively make the theme the essence of the story.
How to get the purpose of the story across to your audience. How to set
up your settings using smell, taste, feelings, hearing and sight. How
to build character within your characters. But most importantly she
will help you understand ‘why’ you wrote or want to write your story.
This
author takes it even further with her explanation of when, how and if
you should use slang, swearing and clichés. The use of punctuation –
what to use, when and where. And to wrap it all up she supplies the
forms that can be used for your research which is a vital part of your
writing. No one wants to hear someone talk about a subject that they
know nothing about. All-in-all, this is a book that should not only be
used by writers of all genres but also as a study book for corporate
presentations, teachers of all school ages and maybe a pastor now and
then. I write cookbooks but I will be referring back to this for my own
writings.