I have never been to India but I hear it's amazing. In my mind, I picture a place full of beautiful rivers, mountains, amazing food, complicated aromas of spices on every corner, and fruit everywhere all the time. Kind of like Panama! That is beautiful rivers, some mountains, and fruits everywhere. As I learn about all the amazing fruits we have here on our little property, there is a recurring theme of their origins going back to India. Like mangoes for example.
We have about 15 mango trees on our property, but mango trees of countless varieties are everywhere in Panama. If you find yourself here between April and July and love mangoes, you will be richly rewarded. There are over 500 varieties of mangoes around the world. Originating from South Asia, the seeds were introduced to the Caribbean by the 15th century by Spanish and Portuguese explorers.
Mango seeds are easy to harvest and propagate here so we have been able to plant a lot of them along with avocado as well. Lucky for us, they bear fruit at the same time of year so the food combos coming out of our kitchen are pretty amazing especially if we have also caught a tuna.
Hello poke bowl! Mango season is almost over but it never really ends in our restaurant. During the season, our dehydrator is on overdrive every day so we have natural and organic snacks on our adventures as well as freezing, and in our sauces.
Of course, we are not the only ones who love this sweet, juicy fruit. The monkeys, squirrels, birds, butterflies, bees, ants, and just about every animal loves it too and we are more than happy to share.
The mango tree grows amazing fruit but is also a deeply rooted tree that has a massive, thick canopy providing habitat, flowers to attract and feed pollinators, and of course doing its amazing tree things like creating and purifying the sweet air that we breathe, sequestering carbon from the atmosphere, cooling the tropical air, preventing erosion, and well you know how this list can go on and on...
Monkeys love mangoes. Melikki always started her day in a mango tree and when Soldier was in recovery as well as when he was released, he bee-lined for the mango tree for his first food after his amputation.
We would love to make you mango sauce, smoothie, crisp, margarita, dried snack, pie, ice cream, flan, muffins, cake, salsa, chutney, salad, poke, curry, rice, and most of all...a mango margarita. Cheers!
Your Friends in Morrillo,
Cari and Ryan Mackey
Owners and Hosts
Morrillo Beach Eco Resort
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