Mango-Avocado Salsa

 On Mother's day, my mom and I ventured into Half Price Books to spend our time until the other stores opened. We came out with about 7 cookbooks and a canning how-to book. One of the books that I got was The Gloriously Gluten-Free Cookbook by Vanessa Maltin. While there aren't any pictures (I'm a visual person) there are a lot of recipes that use fresh, seasonal items and just reading some of the titles made my mouth water.

  I was going through the books to bookmark certain recipes ,when I found a recipe for mango salsa. I've never had mango salsa, but it sounds delicious and refreshing to me and even better, I had all of the ingredients in the kitchen. This dip is a mix between salsa and guacamole which you can eat with chips or serve on fish or chicken.

Mango frozen yogurt (without an ice cream machine)

The other day, I noticed that we had about 8 mangos in our fridge and I wasn't sure how they got there. Well, it was over 100 degrees outside and I wanted something cold to eat. So I decided to make mango frozen yogurt. I have never made one before, but its could not have been difficult. Then I realized that we didn't have an ice cream maker.

This is what you'll need. If you have full fat yogurt, it will be richer.

Cut the ends off of the mango so it can sit up so it looks like this

Carefully hold the mango and cut the skin off.

Its like a melon; you want to yellow, but not the green.

Mangos have weird shaped pits.