Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Oh yeah, THIS is why we came here



Mango season is moving north.



Each of these women is a private contractor, and they arranged it so that each of them got part of the cut from our purchase. Those piles of yellow mangoes up front? Each one was 100 kwacha. 1 USD = 145 Kwacha = one very excited Joh in extreme-glean mode. We got enough to eat like mad, freeze, give away. Anyone have any good mango recipes? Please share!




Of course, we all had to try one right away, tearing the skin off with our teeth and squeezing pulpy gold mash under our fingernails and up to our elbows.



So these guys let us share their well to rinse off.



Also didn't want to drive the hour and a half back to Lilongwe with muddy feet.

5 comments:

Anna said...

oh yum. yumyumyum yum. mango season isn't until may/june here :( but when it last happened, i found a really yummy mango omelet recipe on line, i'll post it on my blog.

Geo said...

Wowee! Beautiful produce! Beautiful people! Beautiful study in contrasts!

Melissa said...

Johanna I just found your blog address on Anna's blog! I think you guys are so awesome to be doing what you're doing. And your children are beautiful! Check out my little guy at meeserj.blogspot.com.

Do you keep in touch with anyone from Gibbs Smith? Those were good times we had for that short little bit!

It's fun to see your blog and find out what you're up to!

-MJ

Kimberly said...

I love mangos how lucky to be surrounded by good people and delicious produce:) Your children are beatiful and you look like your doing a photo shoot for Anthropologie my favorite clothing store. Your a wonderful person Joh keep up the good work out there the world needs more people like you.

The Life of Mrs. Bills...the Palauan one. said...

Joh and family! This is Kebai-from-Poky, I've become an addicted regular to your blog and am finally responding to the luscious mangoes; I am insanely jealous. As for a recipe: diced mango, lime juice, cilantro - served over black beans. Assuming black beans are available...did I just make myself sound naive?