When life gives you ripe mangoes, make healthy soda…. We have a lot of recipes happening each week in the test kitchen for both Crespo Organic Kitchen and the Ger-Nis Culinary & Herb Center. Lemons and limes are a staple item for us, but they can often turn wrinkled or hard (limes) or moldy…
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Lebanese garlic sauce with mango…. Toum is a Lebanese garlic sauce, made by emulsifying raw garlic into oil. It’s a sharp, bold alternative to mayonnaise that is traditionally served over meats and vegetables. The idea for this recipe came about because of a bad garlic purchase I made where about 4-5 heads started to go…
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No need for added sweetener, the mango give this a honey-mustard feel.. This is a super versatile sauce that improves everyday simple weeknight meals substantially. It uses up ANY kitchen herbs you might have laying around, and it tastes great. Brush it on baked chicken breasts or roasted fish fillets, use it as a salad…
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Sweet or savory applications! Having access to fresh ginger has changed the way we flavor our food and what we often eat—from healthy morning smoothies to everyday meals, drinks and desserts. Most of the organic ginger on the market comes from Hawaii, Peru, and Mexico. It has to travel pretty far and moves by sea…
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Earthy tumeric and sweet-tropical mangoes in a hot sauce, c’mon….. We had a big bag of mini peppers laying around from a class that got canceled, some old cherry bombs and a bunch of bits and pieces of fresh turmeric root left at the bottom of a bag that seemed worthless at first glance. Of…
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The magic happens right when you think you went to far I can be quite obsessive with my desire to turn everything into a mango recipe or more importantly and opportunity to teach people that mangoes work in just about any type of recipe or cuisine. I really do not exaggerate their versatility and am…
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The complexities of facts and slow to move information in mangoes Over the years I have had my own ideas about mango quality. I thought I understood the major problems affecting the “king of fruits”, specifically the varietals with which I worked and the countries they were from. Since I traveled to the depths…
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Warming up to and with mangoes; through booze My love for mangoes started off rocky. As a young girl venturing into Central America with my family in the late 1980’s, down the Pan American highway through Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras and into Nicaragua, I had some run ins with mangoes. Few of those entanglements left…
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Holistic & Synergistic Bliss What happens when we combine India’s ancient health drink with the King of Fruits? Golden Milk (Haldi Ka Doodh) has moved boisterously through western society hailing itself as the new super drink, and it’s by far the biggest trend in western holistic nutrition since yoga. The recipe’s roots stretch back centuries,…
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I by pass the sugar cube and modernize the classic old fashioned by incorporating mango essence into a simple syrup. The taste is just as exquisite as the classic version if not better.
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