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Ice Cream & Mangoes

May 29, 2020

Obsessions and more obsessions and white chocolate ripples

Often when I share that I don’t really love eating mangoes, people gasp. I’m more than certain they are thinking, “how is it possible that this woman represents an entire mango brand,  leading its recipe development when she doesn’t like mangoes?”

In my mind I still feel like I am the best person for the job. I don’t love sitting around eating sweet ripe mangoes, but I love coming up with creative ways to incorporate them into recipes and enjoying them in various forms other than the pure sweet fruit. I love the flavor, texture and opportunity mangoes give to me. I am not needed in order to teach people how to eat a fresh mango. I’m far more useful in the instruction of how to add them to everyday cooking, and recipes, demonstrating their extraordinary versatility by incorporating them into just about anything.

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Tropical Holiday Rugelach

December 12, 2016

A treat for the holidays that you will want to make all year long

Rugelach, Yiddish for little twists, are one of the easiest, most versatile sweet cookie-pastries you will ever know. It started out as a fluffy pastry and morphed into a cookie as the recipe immigrated along with it’s Jewish carriers to the USA.  It’s an easy recipe with very forgiving dough and a great holiday cookie. They are quite addictive, so beware.

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