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!

Plant your bread!

So here I am with the explanation of what I ate last night, pictured on my post yesterday.

If there is such a thing as breadfruit, why would I eat processed white bread?

That big lump on my plate was a quarter of a whole breadfruit!

It comes out of my garden, freshly collected by my parents who taught me how to eat it in the first place. They love it when it is slightly yellow and very sweet, boiled and served as it is or with a bit of butter.

I've tried so many ways, grill, steam, fry or mash and to me, it just simply replaces any carbohydrates. So I swap it for rice or sweet potatoes sometimes.

Pic. bellow with my parents selecting their favourite ones, my baby dog and myself

I love the fact that I can still eat the food that my ancestors ate 3000 years ago! There are many varieties of breadfruit but the one we have in Madagascar is the Polynesian one.

Our fruit tree can produce up to 200 fruits a year and I seriously believe that this "tree of bread" has a great potential to play an important role in alleviating hunger. If we think environment, and food problems, this is one of many solutions. Please check its nutritional value on the net here and plant your bread!