The best Thai soup - Tom Kha Kai - Thai Chicken-Coconut soup

TOM KHA KAI:
Thai Chicken-Coconut Soup

This is the best soup, actually this is my favorite soup!!! It's so easy to prepare. In my short 23 years I have been to Thailand more than 25 times, and have become addicted to Thai and Indian food. But I must warn everyone, when making this soup prepare for your mouth to water...it is so hot!!! If you know any cool exotic soup or dish recipes please post a comment!!1 Would love to try something new!!!

1 x 14 oz. can coconut milk

3 cups chicken broth

1/3 cup finely sliced galangal (ginger may be substituted)

1 cup bite-size pieces of boneless chicken breast

1/2 cup straw mushrooms (or sliced button mushrooms)

1-1/2 tablespoons lime juice

2 tablespoons brown sugar

1 tablespoon Thai fish sauce

2 teaspoons Thai chili paste

1/2 cup cilantro leaves

Serrano chilies, sliced (optional)

Combine chicken broth, coconut milk and galangal in a large saucepan. Bring to a boil and stir for 1 minute. Add chicken meat and stir for 1 minute. Add mushrooms, lemon juice, sugar, fish sauce and chili paste and stir for 1 minute. Pour into individual soup bowls and top each with cilantro leaves. For a hotter experience, top with sliced serranos. Yum!

What's on your Bucket list???

I'm sure each one of us has something that they want to do or accomplish in their life. And now I'm not talking about building a house, bringing up 2 kids, getting a dog and planting a tree in your garden.. :) I got the inspiration to write this post from mybucketlistadventures post I recently read. Haven't really thought what would be on my list, but I think its about time to write one! Here it goes...

• act in a movie - it can just be for a sec! :)



• write a book - even 20 pages will do



• get my articles published in a newspaper or a magazine



• jump of a plane - but I think this is a typical one!



• scuba diving



• go on a lion safari in Africa



• help a complete stranger change his/her life



• see all the wonders of the world -especially climb the pyramids



• live to see my great grandchildren



• fly a private plane



• go to Venice



• have a class reunion after were all 50 back in India!



• short term goal - finish my masters paper by 20th JAN 2008!!!



• see the earth from outer space



• go rafting



• meet Putin



• get into on of Forbes Top something lists... :)

I'm sure there are many more, but for some reason nothing is coming to my head. I shall keep in mind to check and update this list and it could be interesting to see in 30 years what I actually have done from this list!!!

Do you have a bucket list? By the way I love this movie the Bucket List!!! If your interested take a look! :)

World Financial Crisis in the Eyes of a Photographer

A new album called «Bunkrupt» was recently released by a famous photographer Phillip Toledano dedicated to the world financial crisis. In the album is a collection of photos, taken in offices of bankrupt companies. What turned out from this idea see below...
These images document the human costs of economic failure. The experience was more like economic archeology, than photography.There was an unsettling , Pompeii-like stillness to recently abandoned offices. A coat hanger waiting patiently for a coat. A flattened gym sock. An inspirational poster, with no one to inspire. Everywhere, signs of life, interrupter...

My Bits & Pieces

I decided that I want to have a blog where I can just write anything and everything without having to categorize it into different sections or topics!
This will be a place where I will put down my thought, ideas and plans.
It is a place where I would be able to share my happiness and my sorrows!
That's why the name of the blog kind of suits it ... bits N pieces...

I will also here comment on the blogs that I'm following and will link to them as sometime there is just so much to say on all the wonderful posts that people make that there is not place in the comments!!!

Please check out my other blog Alen4ik-didyouknow I have all these random things that that I find online!!!