Showing posts with label Breakfast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Breakfast. Show all posts

Saturday, 2 February 2013

Hard labour breakfast

We eat rice 3 times a day! Yes. But each household has a particular way of working around that dish. My breakfast today consisted of a cup of coffee, a kind of cake made of rice and coconut called mokary or mofogasy and I had it with sun dried litchis. I did not make the mofogasy but you can check on the net ways of making it. Over here, so many people can make it so I let others do their work. I prepared the litchis in December when they were in abundance. It is really like bread and jam in the western world except that the bread is made of organic rice flower and the jam equivalence is the dried litchis.


This could be considered as an extra slow cooking food. It took 48hours to make the mofogasy and one month to make the sun dried litchis. The result was a very filing breakfast but that was what I needed today since I had to walk 5 hours through hectares of land to look for new ways of growing food! If you are interested in making your own mofogasy, you can check this video here.


Monday, 28 January 2013

One type of breakfast

Good morning! I don't know if breakfast was meant to be prepared in a hurry or eaten fast but everything around my eating habits is slow. Slow cooking and eating slowly otherwise I don't get to eat at all. Not that I am fussy but everything goes moramora we say over here. Here is my breakfast this morning. Breadfruit pancake with fresh strawberry compote. Yes! That tree that gives you bread if you are following my posts. You can make flour from it and the result is a very fragrant fruit flower pancake!

Pic.1 Breadfruit pancake and strawberry compote

Pic.2 This is how I plant my strawberries

No breakfast is complete without coffee and I know my coffee well. These are special highland arabica beans that I harvested from my coffee tree right from my small garden. It is almost surreal but yes, one of my small tree provided about 7kg of coffee last year. Now it has left many more small coffee plants in my flower bed and I am in trouble because I do not want to kill any of them!

Pic.3 Highland arabica coffee beans harvested last year

Pic.3 And more coffee trees to come!