I know it’s summer because I get to eat steaks of mango! Mango is one of my four favourite foods.
Here is a mega mango that my mum and dad gave us. I tried to take a photo to give you a sense of scale but the best I could do was to put the mango next to a glass pig, which was a gift from Ian and Caroline’s wedding last year.
What are the other three foods?
The other three are chocolate, prawn and chicken.
I gave up chocolate in March last year but it’s still one of my favourite foods. Since 7 March, the only times I am allowed to eat chocolate are if someone makes a chocolate treat especially for me or if it’s part of a degaustation (or wedding) menu.
The first two weeks of the chocolate ban were hard. I thought about chocolate a lot, which proved to me I was unhealthily addicted to it. It’s a lot easier now. Easier to go cold turkey then to have a little bit. There was a while a few years ago when I allowed myself to eat chocolate that was at least 70% cocoa. It meant I ate a lot of dark chocolate.
Now I don’t think about it as much. I have lapsed a few times since March 2011 and when I do, it takes a few days for me to regain my equanimity.
Luckily, prawn, mango and chicken don’t cause me the same problems.
I bet there are recipes out there for prawn, mango and chicken salads!
I make a prawn, mango and chicken curry. Think you’d like it Joan.
mmm, slobber, slobber.