Books: I’m reading two books at the same time right now. Why? Uh, I dunno. The other one is “When to Rob a Bank”… which has nothing to do with the other book…..
Ooh yes! Another strawberry recipe 🙂 I love strawberries and they are the best fresh. Once you start buying strawberries in the winter, I’m sorry they just don’t taste as good. So, we really like to load up on fresh ones this time of year. Here is a crisp recipe that used up some of my strawberries and mangoes. The second time I used up my frozen peaches in lieu of mangoes, and it was fantastic that way as well. You can make it either way. You can also make this using all frozen peaches or mangoes and strawberries – just reduce the cornstarch to 1 Tb.
Top it with vanilla ice cream, or divide it up into ramekins to make individual crumbles (reduce the baking time!), or top with whipped cream. This recipe has 71 five star reviews on Food Network because it is so good!
Grease a 9×9″ or 1.5 qt. casserole dish with butter or cooking spray.
In a great big bowl: toss together the lemon juice, cornstarch, strawberries, peaches or mango, and brown sugar. Add to the casserole dish.
In a medium bowl, toss together the flour, oats, almonds, brown sugar, cinnamon and salt. Stir to combine. Drizzle melted butter on top. Stir until mixture it wet. Sprinkle onto the fruit mixture.
Bake 40 minutes. The fruit filling will be bubbly and the top will be golden brown. Cool for 1-2 hours.
Book Update: I took ALL my books back to the library! We move next week! I already found a school library book from last May under our dining table. Oy vey.
Recipe: A lassi is a yogurt based drink mainly found in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Feel free to substitute the mango for another fruit and the orange juice for milk or more ice. Fruits could include berries, papaya, pineapple, oranges, etc. Basically, try 1 cup of yogurt, 1 cup of fruit, some ice cubes and some honey if you like. For denser fruits like mango, I had orange juice or water.
Something fast and delicious! Great way to get my kids some vitamin A since they really dislike carrots and I don’t have any canned pumpkin right now. Frozen mango and organic mango is sold at Trader Joe’s for $2.30 per bag, so it is a staple around here especially with a sprinkle of cinnamon on top. Add it to your kid’s lunch box or use it for a breakfast on the go. You get vitamin A and C from the mango, protein from the yogurt, and more vitamins from the orange juice.
Blend together in a blender. Adding liquids first seems to help my blender blend faster.
Blend in a blender and drink! Usually adding the liquid ingredients first seems to help the blender process in mine.
I’m Back & with Mango Bread!
Hey Everybody!!!! So… I’ve been doing this blog 3 years. THREE years. Non-stop through anything and everything. That is until I sold my home. It’s like a 24 hour job! Cleaning 3 times per day, packing half of the house into a truck and then a storage unit, touching up inside and out. Wow! I would say it is more stressful than getting married, but just a little less stressful than having a newborn baby. I did get 5 hours of sleep at night in a row – which is way better than having a newborn. Why sell?
Well, we always wanted to have more land and hubby wanted a workshop. This subdivision we found gave us more land (that we don’t own… but it’s a park and a giant creek so little chance of building there) and an extra garage gives hubby his workshop. After discussing it a couple days, we put money down on the lot, put our house up on the market and sold it in EIGHT days. Yes, eight. I think we could have sold it sooner, but we had a huge ice storm opening weekend and then school was closed the following Monday as well.
This recipe is for Mango Bread – a recipe I found at King Arthur Flour. I had some thawed out mango and wanted to make something different from it. Now, the bread tastes nothing like mango. It would taste great savory or sweet like as French Toast or as a ham sandwich. So, if you received mangoes as a gift, in your produce basket, or just tired of mango – then you may want to try this recipe and use them up!
Add everything to the bread machine per the instructions. For my Oster machine, I add the liquids first. Then, I add everything else but the flour and yeast. Add the flour in one big heap. Poke a hole in the top with my finger and add the yeast into the hole.
Hit “Dough Cycle” to make just the dough, or hit “white bread” cycle to make and bake the bread. This time I decided to try baking the bread and it worked great!
If using the dough cycle, bake the bread in a 9×5 bread pan at 350 degrees for 25 minutes covered with foil, and then 15 minutes uncovered.