Mango season is here on Maui, the trees on the West Side (Lahaina to Kapalua) is coming into fruition, once the mangoes are on the trees, you'll see locals with their long ass mango pickers, picking mangoes as it falls into that little basket. Farmer's Markets everywhere on island will be selling all natural mangoes. You got to get em if you're on Maui.
When I worked at Down to Earth Natural Foods we had pickers drop off tons of mangoes, and our produce manager Spencer would buy them because it would sell out, not really fast, but fast enough. Juicier than shipped in mangoes from third world countries, Maui's fruits are wickedly delicious or "ono."
When we were younger, moms would take fresh crisp green mangoes and pickle them in vinegar, salt, and sugar, or maybe some vinegar and soy sauce, believe it or not it was great especially if it was chilled. There was this old little shack on Front Street across of 505 Front St. a place called Mango Stand, it still stands today. The lady there sold pickled mango that was reddish in little plastic sacks. After baseball games we'd hurry there on our bikes, get a pack of mango and a soda and rip to the shopping center to get more money from our moms who would be at work.
Gold baby gold, nothing like growing up on Maui with fresh grown mangoes, if you are here during mango season, which is anywhere from now until mid summer, get some you won't be disappointed. If you love mangoes that is... if you don't love mangoes, well, don't bother buying them, go buy some sandals or something.
Photo: http://www.wikipedia.org/
HADEN MANGO; is one of the most visible variety that is hanging from trees in Lahaina (West Maui), when ripe, this is a great eat. Chilled for a few hours in the freezer, and when you bite into it, you got some cold slushy mango juice, and the meat is sweet, eat it on a hot summer day on Maui, and you got God's snack Honi Girls! There are other varieties, Spanish and Common mangoes, but there's nothing like this Haden Mango, it is so good, great for salsas, and blending it for a smoothie, even rolled in sushi, or made into a sauce for a golden roasted pork tenderloin, man mangoes are in in the Summertime and Haden is my fave, oh boy there, watch out, get outta my way! I'm comin Haden Mango, I'm comin to eat you baby! Mango bread? Sure. Mango Muffinz? Sure can. Mango Cookies? Ah huh no doubt. Mango in an omelet? Yep.Mangoes in your coffee? Why not! Mangoes on your face for sunburns? Ah............. don't know bout dat. But you get my drift, you can follow my dust, mangoes are da fruit for the Summer.
When I worked at Down to Earth Natural Foods we had pickers drop off tons of mangoes, and our produce manager Spencer would buy them because it would sell out, not really fast, but fast enough. Juicier than shipped in mangoes from third world countries, Maui's fruits are wickedly delicious or "ono."
When we were younger, moms would take fresh crisp green mangoes and pickle them in vinegar, salt, and sugar, or maybe some vinegar and soy sauce, believe it or not it was great especially if it was chilled. There was this old little shack on Front Street across of 505 Front St. a place called Mango Stand, it still stands today. The lady there sold pickled mango that was reddish in little plastic sacks. After baseball games we'd hurry there on our bikes, get a pack of mango and a soda and rip to the shopping center to get more money from our moms who would be at work.
Gold baby gold, nothing like growing up on Maui with fresh grown mangoes, if you are here during mango season, which is anywhere from now until mid summer, get some you won't be disappointed. If you love mangoes that is... if you don't love mangoes, well, don't bother buying them, go buy some sandals or something.
Photo: http://www.wikipedia.org/
mangoes with shoyu, let'm soak little while, pau, broke da mout!
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