Fresh Off the Tree

Over the last 2-3 weeks, we have been getting several bumper crops of mangoes off the mango tree in our garden. There’s nothing like biting into a sweet, juicy, tree-ripened mango, and have all the juices dripping down your chin! LoL. Real shiok! And invariably, organic fruits (without pesticides, fungicides etc) just taste sweeter – the flavors are so much more intense.

Fortunately, this time round, we managed to get quite a big bunch of fruits that were smooth-skinned and blemish free . You see… insects, birds, squirrels and even a parrot or two (yes, wild squirrels and parrots right in the midst of urban Singapore!) just LUUVVE pesticide-free fruits too. So, usually, we end up sharing part of all our fruit crops with them – and more often than not, they are quicker off the draw than we are! Spotting and snaring the ripened fruits before we get to them!

We’ve been trying to find ways to eat up all the mangoes as they become over-ripe very quickly. Hmmm… what recipes are there for ripe mangoes? They’re not really appropriate for Thai mango salads, are they? I think these salads require unripened green mangoes. Perhaps I should try making the Thai glutinous rice and mango dessert, or the Vietnamese broken rice and mango dessert (both fairly similar I think). Have to try and find some recipes for these. Would anyone have a recipe they would like to share?

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