Adding a twist to maggi...

Ever purchased a pack of your favorite maggi only to realise that the taste maker is missing? You try searching it everywhere, try seeing if the pack was puffed, but it's no where to be seen. You yell at your maid if she's the one who stole it!! No luck. Try looking at every corner of the kitchen as if the taste maker magically made it's way out of the pack and hid somewhere. Still no luck!! What do you do next? Throw it? Or buy another pack of maggi and use it's taste maker with the one you have, making it half insipid (yeah, that's the joy of sharing!!)? Some mathematics freaks might buy multiply packs, cook all of them together INCLUDING the one without the taste maker, making the insipid effect a little less apparent (lets call it the insipidity coefficient. Cooking 3 packs together, 2 with taste maker and 1 without, IC = 1/3; with 4 packs: IC = 1/4 etc)!!

Ok, this is what I did. Bored with work, I went to the kitchen looking for something to eat. Deciding between corn, cheese sandwiches or a piece of chocolate, I decided to cook maggi for myself. I happily opened a double pack, only to find only ONE taste maker inside! Initially, I wanted to call up the customer care @ nestle and sue them for their blunder, but then better sense prevailed and I started finding ways to make use of whatever is available at hand, owing to my almost half dead appetite!

Necessity being the mother of invention, I immediately boiled some water, added chopped capsicum, American corns, little salt, red pepper for spice, amchur power and a little finely ground black pepper. After two minutes of boiling, I added the maggi cake, along with 2 teaspoons of butter and half a tea spoon of Chunky Chat Masala!!! To make things better, a grated a little cheese on top of it, once it was off fire. Wow, the aroma was way too appetizing to make up for the loss of it!! I had it with tomato ketchup and pudina chutney!! Yummm!!

Conclusion 1: Whenever there's a problem at hand, look at ways of solving it rather than blaming it on others and creating a piteous situation (I am glad that a mere taste maker, rather the lack of it, was able to teach me this. I feel so proud :D)
Conclusion 2: It's only when there's a problem that you'll think about ways to solve it (very obvious!). Problems open up new avenues, and we use our brain to do something out of the box so as to achieve what we desire.
Conclusion 3: Give it a try; what you get in the end might even be better than what you initially expected. Nevertheless, give it a try, the feeling of having tried and failed is better than not having tried at all (David Deangelo's statement: Shooting for the moon and landing in the mud is better than shooting for the mud and making it)!! (Next time Nestle is going to get a tough time!! :P)

Cheers, bon appetit!

Rahul Arora

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