i was at a big ethnic festival this weekend here - worldfest, featuring all the different cultures that now call louisville home. i ate cuban food, senegalese food, thai food, german food (best german. potato. salad. ever), central american food and the obligatory lemon shake-up. however, the crowning glory of the weekend was : mango on a stick from a booth with filipino food.
here's the recipe:
take what was easily the largest mango i had ever seen;
pound a small, sturdy stick into one end of the seed;
peel the mango;
chop in toward the seed at an angle, which carves the flesh of the mango so it looks kind of like a flower;
sprinkle lightly with chili powder.
truly - this was one of the best things i have ever eaten in my entire life.
Sadly, the last 4 or 5 times I've bought mango, it's been underripe. Non ripe mango is just nasty.
yeah, they taste kind of gasoline-y when they're not ripe. that was the other thing that was so amazing about mango on a stick. every single mango i saw them pull out of the crate - and needless to say, there was a VERY long line for mango on a stick - was perfectly, lusciously, drippingly ripe. plus, roughly the size of a softball pushed into an oblong.