First Guest Post - Exotic Oriental Salad by Mukta!

Many of you readers have been aware of the year-long sabbatical I took from work to re-think, rejuvenate and re-organize my life. After much soul-searching, thinking of various new career paths and proclaiming aloud to all and sundry that I was done with media, I did just the opposite – got right back to a job in TV. Yeah well, best laid plans and all that…

But surprisingly, I find myself enjoying my work now. Maybe the break did me good… But more than that I think it’s the place I have joined. The Wizcraft TV team is crazy, noisy, raucous, buzzing with activity or gossip all day, and a veritable fish market if there ever was one! Yet, in media, it is one of the happiest, zaniest places I have seen. Like a friend and colleague pointed out, it is probably because we are all a bunch of extremely hard-working yet unambitious people!! :P

My favorite salad

This is a simple and yummy salad that I make every 2 days or so. Am a total salad person and love the crunch of fresh vegetables with every meal I have. More often than not, I go for plain lemon juice, salt and pepper over the veggies. But when I have the time, I try out different home-made salad dressings. And this is one of my favorites.

Ingredients:
Carrot – 1 large
Cucumber – 1
Red & yellow Bell peppers – ½ cup
Olives – 10 (I use bottled green olives stuffed with pimento)

For the dressing:
Mustard paste (I use Fun Foods Mustard Sauce) – 1 tbsp
Balsamic Vinegar - ½ tsp
Juice of half a lemon
Olive Oil – 1 tbsp
Salt – to taste

Put all the ingredients for the dressing into a small container, put on the lid and give it a good shake. Take a large salad bowl filled with vegetables of your choice, pour in the dressing, and mix well. Garnish with toasted sesame seeds and olives.