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Gidgets and Gadgets: Mango Cutter

27 Aug

Recently I made Bango Muffins (yummilicious I might add).  They are great for breakfast, an afternoon snack, or dinner time dessert.

But if you have ever eaten a mango, you know they can be quite hard to cut.  They are extremely juicy and slippery, but amazingly good.  My first experience with a mango was as a teenage girl living in the Philippines.  Of course, they are even more amazing right off the tree.  My favorite though was eating a green mango (not quite ripe) with sea salt.  It makes my mouth water just thinking of it.

I found this video at YouTube on how to cut mangoes and it is very helpful for us visual people.  But I always manage to do it wrong or wind up with a stinky mess so I was delighted to find this nifty little gadget at the store the other day.

 It’s a mango cutter.  It works just like an apple cutter.  Stand the mango up and place the cutter on the top, just where the stone (core) would be and press down.  It slides right on down and Wala! you have your mango without the stone.  This cutter doesn’t take the sides off so watching the video is still helpful so you can get all of the fruit off.  Or you can do what I do which is just eat the fruit off the sides yourself.  You get a treat while making a treat.

Now if you are eating the mango it can still prove to be a bit messy and if you are baking with it you have to slide the fruit off the skin with a knife or spoon (I recommend small pairing knife) so it can still be a bit messy but I find using this I get more of the fruit off the stone than when I try to cut it.

So what one gidget or gadget do you have around the house that you wouldn’t want to be without?

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Tasty Tuesdays: Bango Muffins

24 Aug

I’m so excited to be posting my very first post.  The writer in me wants to give you some great paragraph full of witty, creative sentences that inspire you to go out and create deliciousness.  But I’m so excited about my first post and my first step to someday owning my own baking business that I’m going to just dive on in and give you this amazing recipe for my Bango Muffins (plus I figure you can go read my About page if you are looking for some deep, spiritual pining about food and baking) :)

I got brave and created these after baking a few muffins following different recipes and looking over a few different recipes in my cookbooks and online. This is what I have created with their guidance and some of my own originality.

Muffin Ingredients

  • 1 2/3 cup of flower
  • 2/3 cup brown sugar
  • 1 1/4 tsp baking soda
  • 1 1/4 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 2 eggs, slightly beaten
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 1/4 cup oil
  • 2 tsp lime juice
  • 1 1/3 cup mango pureed
  • 1 med-large banana pureed
Topping Ingredients 
  • 1/4 cup flour
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 tsp nutmeg
  • 2 tbsp cold butter, divided
  • 1/4 macadamia nuts
  • Shredded Coconut
Kitchen Tools
  • Three bowls
  • 1 Wooden Spoon
  • Pastry Blender
  • Muffin Pan
  • Butter or Baking Spray or Paper Muffin Cups
Baking Directions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Grease muffin pan or line pan with muffin cups and set aside.
  3. Mix dry ingredients (first 5 ingredients) in bowl.
  4. Make well/hole in center of flour mixture and set aside.
  5. Break eggs in bowl and beat lightly.
  6. Add in milk, oil, lime juice and pureed mango and banana.  Mix together.
  7. Pour egg mixture into center of flour mixture all at once.
  8. Stir with wooden spoon until moistened.  Be sure to not over beat/mix.
  9. Spoon into prepared muffin pan or cups.
  10. Add Muffin Topping** evenly on top of batter.
  11. Bake for 15-18 minutes.
  12. Place on wire rack for 5 minutes to cool.
  13. Take out of wire rack and cool for 2-3 more minutes.
**Muffin Topping Directions
  1. Mix all dry ingredients (not nuts).
  2. Cut butter into small slices.
  3. Using pastry blender, cut into mixture until it looks like little crumbles.
  4. Add in nuts and mix some more using pastry blender.
  5. You can add coconut now or wait and add after they come out of the oven while they are still warm which is what I did.
Makes 6 Jumbo Muffins or 12 Regular Muffins
I got to share these with some pretty cool people today.  But the coolest person of all (who I thought might just like these with me) was my dad who was celebrating his 71st birthday today.
Happy Birthday Dad!!!

Shout Outs to:  www.allrecipes.com and this amazing cookbook 

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