Now, just so you all know - I have a background in Food. I went to college for Restaurant Management & doubled in Hotel Technology. I had worked in a local (Northern New York) restaurant doing dishes & worked my way up to cook & assisted the owner with managerial duties before I left my hometown. Then I went to Maine for a summer - had the best Chocoate cake ever there (soaked in Grande Marne) & the best Lobster Bisque; then to Marco Island in Florida for some time & then got pulled in Jersey. The latter part of my career in Food was spent in Garde Mange - loved working with cold food - making beautiful "eye candy" platters of fruit, cheese, meat, canapes, finger sandwiches, etc. - You all know you DO really eat with your EYES not your stomach, right? *wink wink*
Well, The Blonde Frogger has been on a mango kick. He went to soccer camp for 3 weeks & the first week he was there one of the other kids had mango. It was "DEEEElicios" according to Blonde Frogger. So what is a loving mom to do, but try to please child by sending him with his favorite foods - especially fruit - for lunch during soccer camp.
HOLY MOLY!!! I have to say as a food handler...mango would not be one of my favorites!!! Not sure how to handle this fruit. NEVER EVER was it in any grocery store in NNY while I was growing up & it was not in Florida while I working there, either - (yup, probably dating myself now). So I've had to learn to deal with this fruit on my own & not very successfully, either, IMHO.
I don't know - there just seems to be a lot of waste associated with this fruit or I am just serving it wrong - not sure. First I peel the skin with a potato peeler; after that I am lost. I tried cutting it half & trying to take the core out - can someone please tell me where the heck the core IS? Then I went to the "cut the sides off & hope you don't get any "core" (?) within the slices" style. Lots of wasted fruit that way.
Now, I can cut apples, cantaloupe, honeydew, watermelon, kiwi, pineapple, strawberries (my friends look at me like I am crazy because they have never seen a mom cut fruit the way I do - well, let me tell you if they had worked for the same Chef I did in Marco, they'd all cut fruit the way I do - as he allowed no waste what so ever :-)) & have hardly any waste of fruit, but this mango is really getting to me! Arggg!!
Open for suggestions. How do you serve this fruit?
Thanks for any input...
Maple Leaf Red
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Here's what I do:
I cut the two halves off, running my knife alongside the pit.
And then, I cut off the skin. It so messy to peel a mango first.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6dPnL0uJho
Garde Manger, huh? I love that stuff!
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