Mango Orange Popsicles

With the beautiful weather we are spending lots of time outside.  We are also enjoying more frozen treats!  I love to make popsicles for my boys and today I'm sharing with you a recipe for Mango Orange Popsicles.  With it being Ramadan, I find these popsicles make a wonderful dessert.  They are light and refreshing!

Coconut Tapioca Pudding with Mango

I had told you about this Coconut Tapioca Pudding with Mango a long time ago promising to share the recipe for it.  Time just flew by and only recently did I realize that I hadn't shared the recipe.  This was a delicious dessert I made using Grace Organic Coconut Milk.  The picture doesn't do it justice.  I found this a very difficult dessert to make look as good as it tastes.

Mango Pistachio Kulfi

Kulfi is a traditional Indian/Pakistani dessert.  This recipe is not a traditional way to make Kulfi.  Honestly I don't even know what the traditional way is but it certainly doesn't involve evaporated milk, condensed milk and Cool Whip.  I'm sure it does involve boiling milk for a long period of time.  Regardless, we really enjoyed this shortcut version of Kulfi.  I freezed them in popsicle molds but you can also use a container and cut it into squares.  The original recipe used heavy cream.  I didn't have any, but I did have Cool Whip so I substituted that.  The Cool Whip made it a little more sweet.  The ground pistachios give the Kulfi a wonderful texture.  I'm looking forward to experimenting with this recipe to come up with different flavour combinations!

Mango Date Green Monster {Guest Post}

This will be a different Ramadan.  A Ramadan without Baba.  In the picture above I have placed a pocket watch we found in Baba's things.  It is an antique pocket watch and my dad had written on the bag Eglinton Ave E/Laird (where he bought it) and $5.35.  Baba was such an organized man.  Always thought of everything and made sure everything was in place.  During Ramadan, iftari at my parents place was usually the tradtional waday, dahi baday and aloo bonday.  All things Baba loved.  He could never resist the Iftari.  When my brother and I were still at home, Baba would buy baklava and chocolate every Ramadan.  We would always have some at sehri/suhoor.  May Allah forgive him and grant him Jannat-ul-Firdous.  May Allah make this easy time for Mummy.  Ameen.

Mango Smoothie

Mango season is just about over.  This is one of the ways we were enjoying them this summer.  They never lasted long so it was always difficult to get a picture of them.  Bilal has been loving smoothies this summer. It all started with the Green Monster.  They are a great way to get him to have some extra fruit.  I love the citrus flavour that the orange juice brings.  I find these smoothies are best if had immediately.  They thicken up while sitting in the fridge.

Fresh Mango Ice Cream (Eggless, No Machine & Low Fat)

I came across an ice cream recipe on Crunchy Creamy Sweet that only used 3 ingredients: evaporated milk, sugar and vanilla.  I was very curious and excited hoping this would be the low fat ice cream I was looking for!  It is a soft serve ice cream.  I tried the original recipe but haven't been able to get the amount of sugar to our liking.  I found it amazing how 1 tin of evaporated milk chilled whipped up like whipping cream and in only 40 seconds!  I wanted to give this ice cream another try and I also had some mangoes that were on the verge of going bad so I decided to adapt the recipe to make mango ice cream.  We all really enjoyed it!  The mango version isn't soft serve since the water from the mangoes freezes.  We actually prefer this ice cream to a post I did back in July.  It isn't as sweet and has a nice fresh mango flavour.  Since no ice cream machine is used it is a bit time consuming since you have to keep putting it in the freezer and then taking it out to whip up.  If you do decide to use your ice cream maker, for mine it was too much ice cream and I would have to do it in 2 steps.

Mango Ice Cream

Today I am guest posting on The Recipe Code.  The Recipe Code is written by Zee.

Mango Lassi

When I was growing up my mom used to make my brother lassi.  She would take a bunch of ice cubes and wrap them in a dish towel.  Then she would proceed to bang them on the window sill to crush the ice.  Next would come the yogurt and she would mix it in the ice.  I'm sure she put other things in it too but the thought of drinking yogurt just seemed so unappetizing.  I was an extremely picky eater and there was no way I was going to drink yogurt.  But I've grown and I'm not as picky as I once was.  I used to cringe at the sight of coriander in food.  I hated onions.  Now if I don't have either in my fridge I feel like there is nothing I could possibly cook.

I am still somewhat picky and the only lassi I will have is mango lassi.  When we go out to eat dosa I usually will get a mango lassi.  It is so thick and sweet and mangoey....hmmmm......

I was browsing some food blogs and I came across Manu's Menu.  She had a recipe for Mango Lassi.  It was so simple so I gave it a try.  I wasn't able to find the Alphonso Mango Pulp.  When I'm doing my grocery shopping Indian stores aren't open yet.  So I got Kesar Mango Pulp from Wal-Mart.  The recipe called for water which I thought would dilute the taste but I went ahead wit the way the recipe was written.  It was too thin for my taste and didn't have a strong mango flavor.  So I played around with it...increased the mango pulp, replaced the water with milk and used less.  I also added a lot more sugar.  It was just how I liked it!!!  I wish I could say the same for my picture. I just couldn't get a good picture.  But I was taking them at night and the lighting in the kitchen is bad...this is the best one out of around 10 others I took.

Sameena's Chickpea Mango Salad

A while ago my cousin sent me a recipe for this salad.  I wanted to try it because of the mix of sweet and savory but I never had all the ingredients around.  I recently went to my parents and when mangoes are in season they give me a big bag of them.  I had some peppers and I just needed to go buy some jalapenos to make this salad.  I had to make some changes because Sameena is American and in America you get 15 oz cans of chickpeas..here in Canada we get 19 oz cans.  So my change was simply to double the dressing and I also added salt.  We really liked this salad.  I loved the sweetness of the mango. 

I know my son would have loved it but he was being a stubborn 4 year old at the time and didn't want to try it.  Next time I would add some more mango and jalapeno. I couldn't really taste the jalapeno.