International mango festival

One of Delhi’s most popular events is the International Mango Festival which celebrates everything about the King of all tropical fruits, ‘Mango’. The International Mango Festival is held every year at the Delhi Haat Pitampura in Delhi. This year it took place the 7 and 8th of July.

One gets to savour over 1100 varieties of mangoes and some rare species of the sumptuous fruit. Some of the traditional and exceptional mango varieties are Langda, Dasheri, Alphonso, Fasli, Bombay Green, Chausa, Sindheri, and many more hybrid species of the fruit.

Aphonso, Haden, Keitt, Kent are some of the varieties we have in the Foodpairing database. Included a Foodpairing tree on a more general flavor profile.

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Foodpairing combinations with mango? Kuremal Mohanlal Kulfiwale in Dehli takes out the stone of a mango and fill it up with condensed milk, saffron and nuts, and freeze it. What about adding blackcurrant-basil or green tea-lychee?

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Jun 4, 2012

National cheese day

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We added already quite some Foodpairing recipes with cheese (click here e.g. for goat cheese recipes – scroll down) to the Foodpairing.com website.
For National Cheese Day we added a few new combinations linking beer to cheese. More recipes (about 20) will be added soon with different Belgian beers.E.g. cream cheese – pineapple – mango – bourbon whisky linking to Gueuze Fond Tradition.

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Sep 28, 2011

MANGO PAIRING

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Last December, I had to do an talk with Harold McGee on his new book keys to good cooking, and going through the results on different types of mango, it came up my mind again that Harold McGee described an Alphonso mango as one of his most preferred foods.
Well, what to combine with Mango?

You can translate this tree into a Mango, mackerel, juniper, celery combination like Alinea restaurant (source picture)

Or give a little twist to a classic combination; Mango, lobster, salad + dark chocolate (by the Mangerie, Bruges) Which was the winning dish in a Chocolate Foodpairing competition here in Bruges.

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Jun 1, 2011

HOW TO REPLACE MY CUCUMBER IN MY PIMM’S?

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German health officials said that cucumbers imported from Spain was one source of a recent deadly E. coli outbreak in northern states that killed several people and made hundreds sick.
They came back on that, but maybe you are still afraid (you shouldn’t, but in case you are). What could replace cucumber in your dishes or cocktails?

Well, one of the typical flavors of cucumber is (E,Z)-2,6-nonadienal. A molecule which you make when you are cutting cucumber (as by cutting you mix enzymes and fatty acids of the cucumber. The enzymes will cut the fatty acid into 2 parts, one of them being the cucumber flavor).
Where else can you find this molecules if you want to make a Pimm’s cocktail?

You can find the cucumber flavor also in:
- borage flowers
- mango
- watermelon
- Hendrick’s gin…
So mango in your Pimm’s cocktail? Or go directly for the Hendrick’s