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TropicAlex

Tonight I am having one of my favorite Malagasy Food.  It is shrimp with leaves of a local plant called mafana (hot) and plant from patata.   The shrimp is very expensive now at $3 a pound so we bought 4 pounds of shrimp and the plants are about one dollar.  I cook up the skin and heads for a broth with the plants and the shrimp is included in the broth and the skins and heads are discarded.
This will feed a family of four for dinner and have left overs for lunch the next day.   
If you don't have shrimp you can use fish or beef...

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TropicAlex

I am making one of our favorite breakfast this morning.  Watery rice with beef brochettes, if not beef then dried fish is another favorite. 
The breakfasts for USA children and adults are sugary cereals or donuts, fast food egg sausage , cheese burgers--what I call slow poison or just, maybe some oatmeal with lots of sugar or tasteless fruits.

Plenty of different mangoes on the market which I juice with bananas and lychees have made it to Mahajanga.

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