Mango Week Recipe #1: Bread

A by-product of cooking almost every night is that I go to the local Asian market twice a week, which means that I am tempted by a crate of mangoes twice a week, which means that I now have a crate of mangoes at home. Well, not quite a crate anymore after several lassis and a pandowdy, but that situation will be remedied once I go shopping tomorrow. Since my indecision is at its worst when it comes to recipes, it's now Mango Week at Château Stephanie. Prepare yourselves for an orange-colored assault.

First I ground my own flour:
















Next I crushed some cardamom seeds, whipped them into the flour, pulverized six mangoes, threw all the ingredients together in a bowl, and catapulted the bread pan into the oven.







Then I lounged about in a non-violent manner for forty minutes until this came out of the oven:



(I forgot to mention that I bombarded the batter with slivered almonds.)













It is also no secret that I cannot resist cupcake liners, and obsess over presentation, so I siphoned off some batter and made these little muffins:


Next up: (sugarless) mango cheesecake. Oh, don't grimace - the mango bread above is vegan, and you couldn't even tell!