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.
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
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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.
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
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in the season - but they are loaded with fruit.
We get "seconds" on fruit at the market. These were destined for the
US
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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
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
