January 26, 2011
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bad milk (ack! two blog entries in one day!!)
Speaking of using time (un)wisely here i go with another blog entry.
We’ve been having a terrible time with the milk/ranono tamin ‘ny tapa-bolana.* In the morning whilst i’m pouring Judah’s cereal milk, for instance, it’ll come out in chunks… ugh. And then Judah – looking at the chunky milk sitting atop his chocolate petals with upturned lip – will say, “yuck, i dont want that”, in such deadpan that it makes me laugh.
This is not altogether uncommon every once in a long while, but lately, after the Frishli milk (from Germany) is no longer to be found in Shoprite – which, incidentally, we know is stellar milk because it froths with the milk-frother whereas all the other milk definitely does NOT! Now all there is at Shoprite is this “Enjoy” milk from some Arabic country. Milk that we have definitely NOT been enjoying. I mean, we make it through not even half a liter and it starts to turn and get chunky. Yuck. I was wondering also if it was the milk making some of our tummies feel like they were going to puke. bleh.
I finally went all the way to Jumbo to get some Candia milk, which i remember had been a not-even-close second-runner-up to Frishli in the good-milk contest.I miss fresh milk that doesn’t turn bad within half a day.
* (tamin ‘ny tapa-bolana means last fortnight/14 days) ok, excuse me for these annoying insertions of Malagasy vocabulary. I’m trying to use the words i do know in order to practice and become more fluent.
As i wrote this i was thinking of certain people who might find the fact that we store most of our milk in the pantry rather than the fridge to be an interesting part of life in Mada. Also, this is our ‘pantry’ where you might be able to pick out what our family, at least, stores in-house. My imported Cornelia Bean teas are on the top left. The new Coke-bottle of honey from Mandritsara is on the top right in the blue bag. Most of the top-of-the-shelf stuff is imported and thus used more sparingly than the other things. Hm, i’m feeling strangely vulnerable displaying my pantry to the general public. haha.
Those bottles you see on top there are vanilla beans stewing in vodka (that’s how you make vanilla for baking f.y.i.) and other cooking liquids.
Comments (4)
we have also had boxes and boxes of chunky milk. i’m so tired of it! i bought leader price brand and was surprised that it was less than 3000. it taste fine…for boxed milk.
I actually wasn’t too surprised you kept this in your pantry
My sis-in-law kept her eggs in her pantry when she lived in Zambia, as do ppl in Australia.
Hm,….. I’m thinking our family might have to get used to the idea of forfeiting milk altogether. Too bad, since we practically survive on it right now!
same happens to us in London all the time
it breaks in chunks before you can even take it out of a bag.
chunky milk, that is. same started happening to sliced bread
your pantry looks lovely! so nicely organized!