Posts by Nissa
Tropical Holiday Rugelach
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…
Continue ReadingMango Jam
A sweet dose of edible winter sunshine Winter is often cold, dark and dreary, it can be downright depressing. So when the winter sun pokes it head out and offers warm rays and bright lights we perk up and take notice. Shoving our face into the warmth of the sun and basking in the brilliance…
Continue ReadingBehind the Season
Fickle fruit and empirical crop forecasting Behind every great season, lies a great deal of unseen work, especially in the off-season where mainly the “unpredictables” determine the outcome of the crop. In today’s world where climate change exists (it’s not a hoax) and capricious weather becomes the norm, an empirical approach to understanding agriculture is…
Continue ReadingThe Modern Margarita & Mango Pit Mixer
Ditch the triple sec, excessive salt and the eponymous Margarita glass! Nothing says authentic Mexico quite like a Margarita. Or does it? This potent “bebida” was invented somewhere near Rosarita (Northern Baja) in the early 1930’s for a B-list American movie star named Marjorie King. Marjorie was allergic to all hard alcohol except tequila and she…
Continue ReadingMango Caramel 3 Ways
Foolproof Caramel Recipes Using Mangoes: Salted (Classic), Faux and Tropical Vegan There is no one way to make caramel. The variances of technique, ingredients and measurements are ample. It’s really a matter of taste and personal preference that guide choices. And when it comes to caramel there is one overlying rule: practice makes perfect.
Continue ReadingRain: an Ally and Antagonist
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Imperfect Truth about Mangoes and Rain Mangoes are an imperfect fruit. Unlike the rest of the world, which is very used to seeing mangoes in all quality forms (the modern trend calls it “imperfect fruit”), Americans’ fruit cosmetic standards are very high and unrealistic. Not only does this…
Continue Reading“It’s Summertime and the Living is Easy”
And I’m told… It’s Gazpacho time! For me, that means mangoes. Today, the title to this post came into my social media feed in the form of an organic industry blog post (It’s Summer Time and Living is Easy). It came by way of my dear friend, organic produce colleague and cooking buddy, Melody Meyer.…
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My Herbal Fetish Mixes with Mangoes Love for fresh herbs dominates my life, everyone knows this. Herbs are my salt and a way for me to pull or push some of nature’s loveliest flavors. Fresh herbs offer me the extraordinary ability to create works of art by syphoning flavor and pointing essences, accenting nature’s best and…
Continue ReadingThe Keitt Mango
Late Season Vibrancy in a Big Package As we soar into August we typically roll out of the long Mexican mango season. Some years the period winds down at the beginning or middle of August, and some others go through until the beginning of September. This season the latter is expected, it starts as far down as Chiapas…
Continue ReadingSinaloa Hot Sauce (Mango Habanero Sauce)
