Mango madness
Mango madness
Posted on 31 Dec, 2008 6 comments
Mango madness.
The fruit on the mango trees ripened quickly this season. They have been picked about 3 weeks ago and at the moment you can buy them everywhere at little stalls on the side of the road. For 6 dollars a bag you’ll have about 30 delicious mangoes! So every day we’ve been peeling mangoes and savouring them, taking in their lovely sweet smelling flavours. You can go mad on mangoes now!
But the mango madness really has only to do with this season. It is in the buildup through to the wet, when some people really can’t cope with the humidity, the rain and the mold, which seems to grow everywhere.
Soon the rambutans will be ready for picking and I can hardly wait.
All this delicious tropical fruit we can buy just at our doorstep.
Dragon fruit and starfruit. This is a small yellow fruit with 5 sides and when you cut it across you get small slices in the shape of a star. The fruit is rather tarty, sweet and sour combined, quite crisp and quency.Mangoes come in different sizes and colours, but we have the Kensington Pride around here. Green on the trees, and when yellow ripe. After peeling the flesh is orange and smells wonderfully sweet. Tastes great with deserts or in salads. Mangistan is a delicious small fruit. A purple woody kind of peel which you just twist between your hands, one clock and the other anti clock wise, and you will then see the white segments of soft white flesh. Rambutan is a small fruit with soft red hairs on the outside. You can also twist the peel like the mangistan and then an oval white sweet flesh emerges. Inside a rather woody kind of seed. The fruit tastes similar to grapes. They are related to the lichies.
And of course Queensland is well known for its bananas which get send to all areas in Australia.
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love star fruits too!
31 Dec, 2008
My mouth is watering Marguerite. Could you please show us a picture of your fruits when you have time? Thanks!
31 Dec, 2008
They all sound so fresh and refreshing, just what is needed after Christmas indulgence!
Makes you think of summer......
31 Dec, 2008
I lived in Guatemala for a while and picked pineapples, mangoes, papaya and bananas from the garden! Fruit from the supermarket in England just doesn't taste the same!
31 Dec, 2008
Hi Fourseasons, was it very humid in Guatamala? You must have had a similar garden to mine with all the fruit trees. I had some pineapples but they never matured properly and it was very hard to weed in between so I got fed up and threw them out. I had bananas in our Darwin garden, but the bats beat us to them. I should have wrapped a plastic bag around them, just like I saw at the orchards. We are getting to the last of the mangoes now, unfortunately. But they were delicious! Michaella I did post pictures of these fruit somewhere along the line many pages ago, but it is always a big search to find things back here I think. I will post them again.Yes Pottygardener, the fruit is refreshing, we always have fruit at lunch, heaps of it too. I do all the peeling and cutting up and then make them like a fruit salad in the dishes. Hubby is too lazy to do that, except for his apple. O yes, he wants an apple a day and they are so expensive here as they have to come a long way. At 8 dollars a kilo.....lucky I don't like them that much.
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I wish I could buy some from you, love mangos, just ate 1!
31 Dec, 2008