Kitchen
Summer Mango Salads!
A Crespo Organic Kitchen Cooking Class Class Description: Learn to make three mango-centric summer salads that will wow everyone this season and beyond. You’ll get refreshed with our everyday mango education, learning about how the Tommy Atkins varietal’s and its firmer flesh works wonderfully for salads. We will teach several different ways to cut mangoes…
Continue ReadingSummer Mango Quenchers on Zoom!
A Crespo Organic Kitchen Cooking Class Class Description: In this class, you’ll learn how to make thirst-quenching summer mango drinks out of this summer’s bounty of mangoes! Here we will teach you how to whip up our favorite mango thirst-quenchers, perfect on a hot summer’s day. We’ll teach you how to prepare a light fruit-herb…
Continue ReadingBoots On The Ground (Flipflops Technically)
Under the Crespo mango trees, I find efficiency, ingenuity, mango joy and #muchosmangoes The “Propaganda Lady” is what they called me last week at Empaque Don Jorge, as I walked around with my mask and hairnet snapping photos and filming staged and impromptu videos. I’ve learned to see the big smiles in the eyes of…
Continue ReadingMango & Avocado Tuna Ceviche Tostadas
A few recipes from Mazatlán, recreated in the Crespo Organic Kitchen, by Nissa Mazatlán is the ceviche capitol of Mexico. Every season I head down to Empaque Don Jorge I indulge in all the wonderful fresh seafood variations of this dish and pack my suitcase full of ideas to bring back. Then I indulge myself…
Continue ReadingWe Got Sauce!
And two new recipes to use it on! I have been working in the produce industry for about 25 years now and very few industry folks are familiar with my other career in food; specifically culinary education, food writing and recipe development. I have published countless recipes and written extensively on how to choose and…
Continue ReadingMeats, Sweets, Cocktails and more….
Mango-Centric recipes for the Super Bowl win! My father watched a lot of football when I was a little girl. He used to gamble on games and have 7-8 TV’s playing all the games at once. I knew everything about football from a very young age. I never loved it, but I did know more…
Continue ReadingMissouri Mango Joy!
The Crespo Organic Kitchen & marketing offices relocate to the Ozarks Much like children needing to live where their parents go, the Crespo Organic Kitchen has to move when I do. So, when I decided to move to Table Rock Lake in the Ozarks, it was mandatory that the Crespo Organic Kitchen and the marketing…
Continue ReadingIce Cream & Mangoes
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…
Continue ReadingMango “Quarentini’s”
Pick your poison: from classic to weird mango cocktails & mocktails to keep you at home for the long haul Wherever you are and whatever your viewpoint is on quarantine or no quarantine, mask or no mask… one thing that most can agree on is that a cocktail at home tastes rather good these days.…
Continue ReadingAtaulfo Swirl Meringue Cookies
A simple crunch cookie your kids can make! I recently found myself with some leftover egg whites from an ice cream project I did – which you can find on my other blog My Herbal Roots. So, I wanted to try an idea that had been swirling around in my head (pun intended; they’re great…
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