Monday, May 30, 2011

25 May—Vanilla Day (Tana)

Took a down day today to just hang around, read, and watch CNN International on my TV.  My room is spacious, tasteful and comfortable.  I met Solofo (who got to town about the same time I did) to talk about the next part of the trip, but that was about all the vacation-y stuff I did.

Well, except for dinner.  Decided to live dangerously and try chicken breast with vanilla sauce since Madagascar produces so much vanilla.  I learned somewhere here that vanilla actually comes from an orchid and isn’t native here but thrives.  In any case, I thought I’d see what it does to chicken sauce.

The answer is that it makes chicken taste like meat dessert.  And the taste infects everything.  I had a dry white wine with the meal, and though there might have been other elements in its bouquet, I certainly couldn’t taste them; it tasted like vanilla.  I even ordered my fav dessert – crème brule – and IT tasted like vanilla.  Lesson learned.

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