Mangoes are here!

Sandi said:

It's the start of mango season here. I just bought 4 mangoes, large,
ripe, ready to use at the Sunday market (total weight about 5 pounds)
for $1.00. Our trees aren't ripe yet - our mangoes ripen a little later
in the season - but they are loaded with fruit.

We get "seconds" on fruit at the market. These were destined for the US
via a fruit importer in Miami but they were too ripe for shipping when
the buyer made his decision on which boxes to take. We reap the
benefits. They sell off the undersized or too ripe fruit to local
vendors who then resell at the Sunday market. A pickup truck full of
undersized melons for example will be sold to a vendor for 50 to 100
lempira ($2.50 -$5.00) and then he resells the melons for 5 lempira
each (about $0.20).

Over ripe bananas were in so were the last of the melons that didn't
make the cut for export.

Blackberries have been in now for weeks. They are going for about $0.20
a pound. I have abut 8 pounds in the freezer now.

Today I am trying a new recipe for mango pudding. If it turns out ok,
I'll post it.

Sandi

Is the Lempira the monetary unit of Honduras? Or of where? I have
heard the word, but I do not remember. Thank you, MS

Margaret Suran said:

Is the Lempira the monetary unit of Honduras? Or of where? I have
heard the word, but I do not remember. Thank you, MS

Lempira is the monetary unit in Belize and Utila, I am not sure about
the rest of Honduras. Maybe she can tell you.

I went scuba diving and it was 1,413.750 Lempira, or $75(US).

BTW, I had a mango margarita and it was quite tasty.

Becca

Becca

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It's the start of mango season here. I just bought 4 mangoes, large,
ripe, ready to use at the Sunday market (total weight about 5 pounds)
for $1.00. Our trees aren't ripe yet - our mangoes ripen a little later
in the season - but they are loaded with fruit.

We get "seconds" on fruit at the market. These were destined for the US
via a fruit importer in Miami but they were too ripe for shipping when
the buyer made his decision on which boxes to take. We reap the
benefits. They sell off the undersized or too ripe fruit to local
vendors who then resell at the Sunday market. A pickup truck full of
undersized melons for example will be sold to a vendor for 50 to 100
lempira ($2.50 -$5.00) and then he resells the melons for 5 lempira
each (about $0.20).

Over ripe bananas were in so were the last of the melons that didn't
make the cut for export.

Blackberries have been in now for weeks. They are going for about $0.20
a pound. I have abut 8 pounds in the freezer now.

Today I am trying a new recipe for mango pudding. If it turns out ok,
I'll post it.

Sandi

I make Mango Nut Bread when I need to use up extra mango. My husband likes
it with more than the 1 cup mango called for in the recipe. He also never
waits until the second day to dig in.

MANGO NUT BREAD

1/2 cup butter; or shortening
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 cup flour; sifted
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup mango; chopped fine
1 tablespoon lime juice
1/2 cup nuts; chopped

Cream shortening and sugar. Add eggs. Stir in dry ingredients, mango and
lime juice. Add chopped nuts. Bake in greased and floured loaf pan in 375
degree oven for 1 hour. Do not cut until the second day.

Yield: 8 servings

Sandi said:

It's the start of mango season here. I just bought 4 mangoes, large,
ripe, ready to use at the Sunday market (total weight about 5 pounds)
for $1.00. Our trees aren't ripe yet - our mangoes ripen a little

later

Quoted message said:

in the season - but they are loaded with fruit.

We get "seconds" on fruit at the market. These were destined for the

US

Quoted message said:

via a fruit importer in Miami but they were too ripe for shipping

when

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the buyer made his decision on which boxes to take. We reap the
benefits. They sell off the undersized or too ripe fruit to local
vendors who then resell at the Sunday market. A pickup truck full of
undersized melons for example will be sold to a vendor for 50 to 100
lempira ($2.50 -$5.00) and then he resells the melons for 5 lempira
each (about $0.20).

Over ripe bananas were in so were the last of the melons that didn't
make the cut for export.

Blackberries have been in now for weeks. They are going for about

$0.20

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a pound. I have abut 8 pounds in the freezer now.

Today I am trying a new recipe for mango pudding. If it turns out

ok,

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I'll post it.

Sandi

Mangoes are ripe in Hawaii too! All over the road🙂 and many happy
birds with orange beaks. Made 2 recipes of my grandmother's mango
chutney abut 2 weeks ago. Mango season is a wonderful season and it
looks as though another crop of mangoes are in the making. Unusual
but we'll take the second group in a couple of months too🙂.

with aloha,
Thunder

smithfarms.com
Farmers of 100% Kona Coffee
& other Great Stuff

Becca said:

Margaret Suran said:

Is the Lempira the monetary unit of Honduras? Or of where? I have
heard the word, but I do not remember. Thank you, MS

Lempira is the monetary unit in Belize and Utila, I am not sure about
the rest of Honduras. Maybe she can tell you.

I went scuba diving and it was 1,413.750 Lempira, or $75(US).

BTW, I had a mango margarita and it was quite tasty.

Becca

The monetary unit of Belize is the Belize Dollar, not the Lempira. If
you were paying in Lempira, you were probably in the Bay Islands of
Honduras. Roatan, Utila, and Guanaja are Honduran islands, not Belizian
islands. The monetary unit is of course the same throughout Honduras
although the Bay Islands often prefers US dollars to anything else.BTW,
your dive trip is now US $78. It seems odd that they would be using
Lempira in Belize since it is exceptionally HARD to change Lempira to
any other Central American currency except Quetzales at the border with
Guatemala. Airport banks in El Salvador won't change Lempira for US
dollars and US dollars are the official currency in El Salvador. Sig
Other couldn't change them in Costa Rica either.

Sandi

Sandi

There is no such thing as extra mango. :-)) We peel and freeze it in
chunks.....ready for mango liquados (milk shakes). With no A/C, I do
not do any indoor cooking during mango season. We have a sove on the
patio in addition to one in the kitchen. From April through the end of
October, all cooking is pretty much done outside on the stove top
burners.

Sandi

Sandi said:

The monetary unit of Belize is the Belize Dollar, not the Lempira.

Sandi you are correct, I was in Roatan. I did not go diving in Belize, I
went inner tubing down a river.

Becca

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It's the start of mango season here. I just bought 4 mangoes, large,
ripe, ready to use at the Sunday market (total weight about 5 pounds)
for $1.00. Our trees aren't ripe yet - our mangoes ripen a little
later in the season - but they are loaded with fruit.

We get "seconds" on fruit at the market. These were destined for the
US via a fruit importer in Miami but they were too ripe for shipping
when the buyer made his decision on which boxes to take. We reap the
benefits. They sell off the undersized or too ripe fruit to local
vendors who then resell at the Sunday market. A pickup truck full of
undersized melons for example will be sold to a vendor for 50 to 100
lempira ($2.50 -$5.00) and then he resells the melons for 5 lempira
each (about $0.20).

Over ripe bananas were in so were the last of the melons that didn't
make the cut for export.

Blackberries have been in now for weeks. They are going for about
$0.20 a pound. I have abut 8 pounds in the freezer now.

Today I am trying a new recipe for mango pudding. If it turns out ok,
I'll post it.

Sandi

I make Mango Nut Bread when I need to use up extra mango. My husband
likes it with more than the 1 cup mango called for in the recipe. He
also never waits until the second day to dig in.

MANGO NUT BREAD

1/2 cup butter; or shortening
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 cup flour; sifted
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup mango; chopped fine
1 tablespoon lime juice
1/2 cup nuts; chopped

Cream shortening and sugar. Add eggs. Stir in dry ingredients, mango
and lime juice. Add chopped nuts. Bake in greased and floured loaf pan
in 375 degree oven for 1 hour. Do not cut until the second day.

Yield: 8 servings

Oh Gawd this sounds good. I love mangoes and the hubster is correct, 1
mango is never enough. I eat 'em plain with sugar. I'll buy the jars of
them too during the winter. Thanks for the recipe, never would I have
thought of Mango Nut Bread.

Michael

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It's the start of mango season here. I just bought 4 mangoes, large,
ripe, ready to use at the Sunday market (total weight about 5 pounds)
for $1.00. Our trees aren't ripe yet - our mangoes ripen a little
later in the season - but they are loaded with fruit.

We get "seconds" on fruit at the market. These were destined for the
US via a fruit importer in Miami but they were too ripe for shipping
when the buyer made his decision on which boxes to take. We reap the
benefits. They sell off the undersized or too ripe fruit to local
vendors who then resell at the Sunday market. A pickup truck full of
undersized melons for example will be sold to a vendor for 50 to 100
lempira ($2.50 -$5.00) and then he resells the melons for 5 lempira
each (about $0.20).

Over ripe bananas were in so were the last of the melons that didn't
make the cut for export.

Blackberries have been in now for weeks. They are going for about
$0.20 a pound. I have abut 8 pounds in the freezer now.

Today I am trying a new recipe for mango pudding. If it turns out ok,
I'll post it.

Sandi

I make Mango Nut Bread when I need to use up extra mango. My husband
likes it with more than the 1 cup mango called for in the recipe. He
also never waits until the second day to dig in.

MANGO NUT BREAD

1/2 cup butter; or shortening
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 cup flour; sifted
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup mango; chopped fine
1 tablespoon lime juice
1/2 cup nuts; chopped

Cream shortening and sugar. Add eggs. Stir in dry ingredients, mango
and lime juice. Add chopped nuts. Bake in greased and floured loaf pan
in 375 degree oven for 1 hour. Do not cut until the second day.

Yield: 8 servings

Oh Gawd this sounds good. I love mangoes and the hubster is correct, 1
mango is never enough. I eat 'em plain with sugar. I'll buy the jars of
them too during the winter. Thanks for the recipe, never would I have
thought of Mango Nut Bread.

Michael

You're welcome, Michael. It does comes out good.

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Oh Gawd this sounds good. I love mangoes and the hubster is correct, 1
mango is never enough. I eat 'em plain with sugar. I'll buy the jars of
them too during the winter. Thanks for the recipe, never would I have
thought of Mango Nut Bread.

G'day Michael,

You really need to get some decent mangoes. There's *no way* a good
mango needs added sugar!

Cheers, Phred.

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Yeff said:

Dog3 said:

I eat 'em plain with sugar.

My favorite I learned in the Philippines. Green (unripe) mango sliced in a
bowl with soy sauce and coarse salt. Maybe even a dash of Tabasco. Yum!

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Green mango peeled and sliced with tabasco and salt is the way they eat
them here in Honduras

Sandi

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Oh Gawd this sounds good. I love mangoes and the hubster is correct, 1
mango is never enough. I eat 'em plain with sugar. I'll buy the jars of
them too during the winter. Thanks for the recipe, never would I have
thought of Mango Nut Bread.

G'day Michael,

You really need to get some decent mangoes. There's *no way* a good
mango needs added sugar!

Cheers, Phred.

Thanks Phred, I've always used 'em as a dessert. I'm a sugar freak and
making them sweet has always been my way. I've had the eyes opened.

Michael

Mmmmmmmmm....

Mango margaritas, mango daiquiris, mango lassi. Mango juice
dripping down your chin as you gnaw the flesh from the seed...

If there's a heaven, it's planted with mango trees. And figs.

gloria p

Sandi said:

Yeff said:

Dog3 said:

I eat 'em plain with sugar.

My favorite I learned in the Philippines. Green (unripe) mango

sliced in a

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bowl with soy sauce and coarse salt. Maybe even a dash of Tabasco.

Yum!

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--

-Jeff B.
zoomie at fastmail dot fm

Green mango peeled and sliced with tabasco and salt is the way they

eat

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them here in Honduras

Sandi

We eat green mangoes here in Hawaii with shoyu and vinegar. Pickle-y.
The shoyu is from our Asian influence, no doubt.

Agreed, a good mango needs no sugar! It is bursting with juicy sweet
flavor that can not be compared to any other fruit. Ambrosia, for
sure.

aloha,
Thunder
smithfarms.com
Farmers of 100% Kona Coffee
& other Great Stuff

Puester said:

Mmmmmmmmm....

Mango margaritas, mango daiquiris, mango lassi. Mango juice
dripping down your chin as you gnaw the flesh from the seed...

If there's a heaven, it's planted with mango trees. And figs.

gloria p

and passion fruit and guava

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Oh Gawd this sounds good. I love mangoes and the hubster is correct, 1
mango is never enough. I eat 'em plain with sugar. I'll buy the jars of
them too during the winter. Thanks for the recipe, never would I have
thought of Mango Nut Bread.

G'day Michael,

You really need to get some decent mangoes. There's *no way* a good
mango needs added sugar!

Cheers, Phred.

Thanks Phred, I've always used 'em as a dessert. I'm a sugar freak and
making them sweet has always been my way. I've had the eyes opened.

A good ripe mango will be extra super duper sweet with absolutely NO
sugar.