Soy galette and cyclone dessert!

Finally, the radio announced this morning that cyclone is over for now. Time to look around the garden and repair the damage. Well, you never know what you can get to eat when you do not want to throw away food and with a little bit of imagination, you can almost make anything to eat. Spare one hour to prepare the dish and dessert and you are on for a good treat.

Soy galette and vegetables with yellow lentils for the main dish. Soya beans existed in Madagascar since 1900 and people use it in many different ways. I use a very small amount mixed with bread fruit flour to make my galette.

These are green mangoes, harvested from all the branches broken down by the cyclone! They look like they have some black patches but they are perfectly alright so if you see those, please do not throw them away. They are good.

Here is how the green mango compote looked like when finished. I much prefer this to the apple compote in plastic cups that you can find in any supermarket theses days. I made 3 jars out of 4 mangoes. Mind you, it did not last long since, me and my sister ate a whole jar! My brother topped it up with a bit of macadamia ice cream and nearly finished a whole jar. I highly recommend it.

The pot can stay in the fridge for few days if the kids do not find it!

Real food on the road!

On Sundays, I have to get out of the house and walk miles and miles away in the country side if I am not in my garden. For that, I bring or buy on the road what I call survival kit food on the road. Depending on where I was from or where I am heading, I would only opt for fresh food. Easy, healthy, cheap and no risk food. I'd eat light but I try to eat right. Raw garlic and onions would always be part of my meal. I like the taste, cooked or raw but on the road I opt for raw. Who doesn't know today that these two herbs are packed with nutrition and health benefits? I recommend everybody to eat them.

Sweet corn are the best food on the road of Antananarivo that I know of! These freshly picked sweet corn are either boiled or steamed on the road side and they just taste so delicious!

In this side road stall here, you can eat fresh sweet corn pipping hot from the pot, you can drink freshly cooked milk or have some honey poured into recycled whisky bottle.

Although I eat onions mostly as vegetables for savoury dish, I lately acquired the taste of home made onion jam that somebody offered me as a gift and I am tempting my Malagasy friends to taste it. After all, we have so many varieties of onions.