My Husband’s Favorite Dessert of All Time: Rose Levy Beranbaum’s Mango Cherimoya Tart

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God Bless Rose Levy Beranbaum.   I mean, REALLY.  God Bless Her. Rose is the kind of woman that can take a distinctly non-domesticated female, give her clear and concise directions, and “wha-la” a masterpiece emerges!  In case you don’t know about Rose, she’s the author of many fine cookbooks – and today I’m referring most [...]

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Fruit Clubs – for When You Want Mangoes and a Whole Mess of Other Great Fruit Too!

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ANY fruit that’s not a mango is CLEARLY not on my Most Favored Fruit List.   But what’s a mango gal to do when folks ask about more fruit buying choices?  I’ll tell you.  She digs in and finds some choices for her readers.  Here’s a quick summary of some cool finds: CHERRY MOON FARMS Brought [...]

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California Keitt Mangoes – Another Reason Why Coachella is so Damned Cool!

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Hipsters and other music lovin’ fiends can blather on & on about Tupac’s hologram and other strange & interesting things that happen at Coachella.  But I’m wondering if they could tell you what is even better about Coachella than all that?  What is even more cool?  Fact is, they probably can’t tell you.  So I [...]

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Can you say ROTTEN MANGO? Got a bad one? You’ve come to the right post.

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Believe it or not, just two days earlier, these mangoes looked normal. I bought a whole batch of beautiful Kents and THIS is what became of them in no time flat. I had never seen a whole batch turn like this; not only was the skin riddled with large brown spots, but the flesh beneath [...]

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Mango Calories…How Many Are There Anyway?

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I love writing the Good News. And I’ll give it to you early. A cup of sliced mangoes contains approximately 100 – 110 calories. Why the range? Because every mango variety is slightly different. Not a big deal. Additionally, it’s helpful to know that 1 cup of sliced mangoes = 2 servings of fruit. In [...]

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Haden Mangoes Revisited

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This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series Mango Varieties in US Markets

Dear Fellow Mango lovers: Every once in awhile I have to revise an earlier opinion – and this is one of those times. In my earlier post on Haden mangoes, I described them as a 3rd runner up to Kent and Manila mangoes. While I still do favor Kents and Manilas, I recently had some [...]

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Healthy Snack Idea for Mango Lovers

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In this post, my friends, is a totally unexpected mango food find. Here’s how *it* happened. My husband and I were planning a trip to Yosemite, and I took on the food supply prep job. On my hubby’s list of food needs were Cliff Bars. He was planning a long hike to Clouds Rest from [...]

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Mango Margaritas – Summer’s Best for Foodies gone Naughty

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All that I can say is…if you mess up mango margaritas after leveraging what’s in this humdinger of post…then I don’t know what, but it’s not good. For the margarita mix lovers out there, I have two cool finds. First the Margarita Collection from Williams-Sonoma. Customers rate it 4.8 out of 5.0 stars and the [...]

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Holy Haitian Mango, Batman!

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This entry is part 5 of 6 in the series Mango Varieties in US Markets

Look what I found!!  I tell you folks, these babies from Haiti were monstrous!  And not only that, the whole lot of them were beautiful, clean and undamaged. What a TREAT! In an earlier post, I covered the Manila mango, and I’ll give it to you – the Haitian mango looks an awful lot like [...]

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Mango Sorbet (Gluttony Justified)

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In an earlier post, I promised to share a dairy-free alternative to Haagen-Dazs’ ever-de’lish mango ice cream.  Here t’is. Turns out, I’ve come across TWO amazing choices:  Mango Sorbet by Haagen-Dazs and Mango Sorbet by Trader Joe’s.  Each is a little different, so let me provide a quick overview.  BOTH are amazingly tasty (like A+ [...]

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Mango Pickles, Mango Gummies, and Other Mango Delights

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Your dedicated Mango Maven is here in beautiful California while the owner of Indian Blend, Lisa, is all the way across the country in Georgia.  We’re 3,000 miles apart, but I tell you what:  We’ve both got mangoes on our minds!  I’m always on the hunt for interesting mango products and boy did I find [...]

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How to Cut a Mango (i.e. How to Remove the Blasted Clingy Seed)

FRESH MANGOES 101

Before I was a maven, I confess I was tentative on buying a lot of mangoes because they are clingstone fruits. As one might surmise, “clingstones” have stones which cannot be easily removed from the flesh. Said another way: The flesh is attached strongly to the blasted stone/seed/pit and must be cut away from the [...]

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Costco Gets Mango Labeling Just Right!!!

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In an earlier post, I praised Whole Foods for an instance of superb mango labeling;  now I must also give similar praise to Costco! As a quick backgrounder on the issue, I am an advocate of more thorough labeling of mangoes in supermarkets.  This is because:   1)  There is a great difference in taste [...]

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Chocolate Dipped Mango Orchids. Need I Say More?

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I was trolling around on certain sites dedicated to chocolate not sure what I expected to find….I was *just trolling*. I know you know how that is. Then I got the daft idea to search for mango in die-hard chocolate territory. And boy was I grossly overcompensated for the folly! What surely promised to be [...]

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