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Mango Mint Salad! get your summer on!

I’m allergic to mango. I have the most beautiful, fertile, productive mango tree in my front yard. Mangos hang over the sidewalk and fall over the cars. They are delicious, big, sweet and juicy and I have no idea of the name of the variety. In the summer, I give away mangos by the bag full, make mango bread, mango ice cream, mango salsa, mango margaritas and chop and freeze bags full of mango for friends. I can’t eat it, but these do not go to waste!

Its the first weekend of May, and after a nasty storm, the yard was littered with mangos, and suprisingly, they are ripe! The kids have polished off a few, but tonight I’m making them their favorite dinner… Tacos… And also, a side of Mango Mint Salad!

You need:

Juice from 1 lime

2 mangos, chopped

1 t red onion chopped in fine slices

2T mint, chopped

To chop a mango- quarter the peel, pull back the peel one quarter at a time, if it’s not ripe enough, use a sharp knife to peel it. Once the peel is off, cut from top to bottom just in front and in back of pit, then each side, chop fruit.