Fun with fruit

[klwilliams]

This afternoon I ate a bowl of tiny, sweet strawberries with whipped cream. Heavenly. And I still have a bowlful left over for tomorrow. I also have some tiny peaches and some mangoes. I'm trying to eat, or at least try, everything that comes in my weekly vegetable box, especially since I switched the type of box I get, but that's sometimes difficult. Take mangoes. Mangoes are a fruit that I like in principle, but I never seek them out. I've only ever had them in restaurants, or at a friend's house. Tonight I had a mango that was obviously ripe, so I decided to eat it. I did know that I needed to peel it, which I did. At that point I had a long slippery object and a knife, and I discovered, when I tried to cut it, that mangoes have a giant seed or something inside them. I couldn't slice it straight through. I kind of shaved it, and got slices of mango that way. (This was a yellow mango, not an orange one, if that makes a difference.) It was delicious, but I have no idea of the right way to slice a mango. Suggestions?

Comments

[frumpo.livejournal.com]

If you slice off the top and bottom thirds (above a below the big, flat seed) you can score them and turn them inside-out. Search for 'mango hedgehog' :-)

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Yearsa go I read a children's book about a magician, which informed me that you should always eat mangoes in the bath. Quite right too. I just sort of hack at them.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

A Meal with a Magician, from 'My Friend Mr Leakey' by JBS Haldane. Yes, that's what I was going to quote, too.

Though I peal my mango, slice parallel to the stone, then trim side slices off, and serve them as fingers (or you can cube the flesh and mix with strawberries, they combine very well). Nibbling the last of the mango of the stone is cook's perks.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's right, peel it and hack it, eat it in the bath, suck the flesh from the stone until the juice dribbles down to your elbows, or slice it with the skin on and chew/suck the fesh off until the skin's inside out. There's no dcelicate way to attack a mango, so just enjoy it. Yum. Under-ripe mango? Easier to peel and dice but not as nice and not as much fun.

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvLdPjpELyU

I love mangoes.

Love, C.

[mad-duchess.livejournal.com]

Buy a mango coring tool thingy at Sur la Table. It slices the thing in half and separates out the core all in one swell foop. I eat a lot more mangoes now that they are no longer a pain in the ass to prep.

[darcyjavanne.livejournal.com]

Mango - yum!! Watch al Zorra's video.

Fillet off the seed

[dakini-bones.livejournal.com]

score the meat inside the curve of the peel
turn inside out
>:}

[goldenmug.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who came to the UK for a couple of years, leaving her house in the Alps untenanted. When she came home she discovered that there were wild Alpine strawberries growing in the garden.

Now there's a new definition of serendipity, "Looking in your garden for weeds and finding wild strawberries."