Mango Strawberry Fool Food

CRANBERRY-MANGO FOOL WITH GINGERSNAPS

Steps:

• Put the cranberry-mango relish in a food processor and process until smooth.
• Whip together the cream, sugar and vanilla extract until soft peaks form. Reserve 1/4 cup of the cream in a separate bowl. Fold the puree into the remaining cream until just combined. Fill each red wine goblet 1/2 way with some of the fool and sprinkle with some of the gingersnaps. Fill the goblets the rest of the way with the fool, top with a dollop of the remaining whipped cream and a sprinkling of gingersnap.
• Melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium high heat. Add onions and ginger and cook until soft. Add orange juice and brown sugar and cook until the sugar is completely melted and the mixture thickens slightly, 5 to 7 minutes.
• Add half of the cranberries and cook until they pop. Add remaining cranberries and cook for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in the mangoes and zest. Serve at room temperature.

STRAWBERRY MANGO SMOOTHIE

Steps:

• PLACE frozen mango in bottom of blender. Add preserves and orange juice. Process until blended and smooth.

MANGO STRAWBERRY SNOW CONES

Steps:

• Fill a food processor with ice. Process until the ice is very fine, like snow. Add the mangoes and strawberries and pulse to blend. Pile the crushed ice into dessert glasses or dishes and squeeze over the lime juice. Garnish with lime wedges; serve immediately.

MANGO BLUEBERRY "FOOL"

Steps:

• Purée mango, sugar, lime juice, and a pinch of salt in a blender until very smooth. Add cream and blend until very thick. Blend in additional lime juice and sugar to taste.
• Transfer to a bowl and fold in most of blueberries, then divide among 6 glasses. Top with remaining blueberries and zest. If desired, chill, loosely covered, 30 minutes.

RASPBERRY FOOL

Steps:

• In a small bowl, mash the raspberries; stir in 1-2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar and lime juice. Cover and refrigerate until chilled. , In a small bowl, beat cream until it begins to thicken. Add remaining sugar; beat until stiff peaks form. Fold into raspberry mixture. Spoon into dessert dishes.

STRAWBERRY FOOL

Steps:

• Hull strawberries, then wash them and chop into 1/4-inch-thick pieces. Toss with half the sugar, and wait 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until they give up their juices.
• Place half the strawberries and all the juice in a blender, and puree. Pour puree back in bowl with chopped strawberries.
• Whip the cream with remaining sugar and vanilla until cream is stiff and holds peaks easily. Fold berries and cream together, and serve immediately, or refrigerate for up to two hours.

CHEF JOHN'S FRESH BERRY FOOL

Steps:

• Place raspberries, blackberries, and strawberries in a bowl. Add lemon zest, lemon juice, and 1/4 cup sugar. Stir until sugar is mixed with fruit and juices begin to form. Cover and refrigerate until chilled, about 1 hour.
• Place heavy cream and creme fraiche in a cold bowl. Add 1 tablespoon sugar and vanilla extract. Whisk until mixture has soft peaks and sharp lines, 5 to 8 minutes.
• Place some cookie crumbs in the bottom of each serving dish. Spoon in some of the fruit and a layer of whipped cream. Repeat layers, ending with a sprinkle of cookie crumbs.

MANGO STRAWBERRY TRIFLE

Steps:

• Wash, hull and slice your strawberries and set aside.
• Using a serrated knife cut the pound cake into 1/2 inch slices and then each slice into thirds. Set aside.
• Pour all the cream in a large bowl and add the juice of 1/2 a lime. Whip either manually or with a mixer until stiff peaks form.
• Using a spatula, about a cup at a time slowly fold in the mango pulp until fully incorporated (the cream will soften but retain body).
• Now, here's hoping you have a large, deep glass dish of some sort! Begin with a layer of poundcake, layer tightly but now so tightly that they're smashed. If you're using alcohol pour about 1/3 to 1/2 a cup of the alcohol over the cake and allow to soak inches
• Then put a layer of strawberries on the cake. Next place the sliced strawberries around the perimeter of the cake and against the glass with the narrow end up.
• Now spoon a generous amount of the Mango Fool over the strawberries. Then a layer of cake, alcohol, strawberries, Fool and so on until you reach the top of your dish.
• At this point I like to decorate with some mint leaves or strawberries on top.
• Chill for about an hour and serve!

MANGO (OR PAPAYA) STRAWBERRY FRUIT SMOOTHIE

Steps:

• Peel the mango and cut all of the fruit away from the seed. Wash the strawberries and cut off the stems. Place the fruit into a blender along with the remaining ingredients and blend till smooth, pureed and creamy. Sereve in chilled glasses.;

MANGO-STRAWBERRY FOOL

Steps:

• Peel the mangoes and remove the pulp from the seed, trying to keep at least 4 nice slices of mango intact for garnish; set them aside.
• In a food processor, puree the remaining pulp to a very fine puree with the salt.
• Strain through a fine mesh strainer, pushing hard on the solids.
• Chill your mixer bowl and whip in the freezer for 10 minutes.
• Whip the cream and sugar until soft peaks form.
• Carefully, carefully fold the cream into the mango.
• Wash, dry and hull the strawberries.
• Slice into quarters.
• Into each glass put a spoonful of strawberry pieces.
• Top with a dollop of mango-cream.
• Top with more berries, then more mango, continuing in layers this way until you have filled the glasses.
• End each with the mango-cream.
• Garnish each with one of the reserved slices of mango and a little mint sprig.
• Serve immediately.
• Note 1- if your mangoes are really sweet don't add any sugar to the cream, just whip it without it.
• Note 2- this dish won't hold long once you've put it together, 30 minutes or so most.
• But you can prepare the mango cream and strawberries up to the point of layering several hours a head.
• Get your glasses out and ready, and then just layer before service.
• Note 3- try this with raspberries instead of strawberries- heaven!

STRAWBERRY FOOL

Steps:

• Cut the jelly into squares and place in a saucepan with 150ml water. Gently heat until the jelly cubes have dissolved then remove from the heat to cool.
• Remove the strawberry stems and hull (the green leafy bit and the part where it's attached to the berry). Roughly chop the strawberries and put in the bowl with half the sugar.
• Mash the mixture with a potato masher. Stir the jelly into the mashed strawberry mixture and put in the fridge. Leave until it's cold and just starting to set, about 2-3 hours.
• Stir the strawberry mixture well, then fold in the fromage frais and remaining sugar.
• Transfer the mixture to a clean serving dish and leave to set for about 2 hours.

RASPBERRY MANGO FOOL

Steps:

• Blend everything except the heavy cream and schnapps in a blender or food processor, and chill, covered, in a metal bowl in the refrigerator at least 8 hours.
• Whip the heavy cream and schnapps until it forms stiff peaks, and fold it into the fruit mixture.
• Serve immediately.
• Cooking time is chilling time.

MANGO FOOL (MOUSSE DE MANGO)

Steps:

• Place mango, 2 tablespoons sugar, lime and orange juice into bowl of a food processor and blend until smooth. Scrape mixture into a large mixing bowl and chill completely. Whip cream with remaining sugar until stiff peaks form. Fold whipped cream into mango mixture and spoon into small dessert cups. Serve immediately.

STRAWBERRY FOOL

Steps:

• Whip 1/2 cup (125 mL.) whipping cream and stir in 3/4 cup (175 mL.) of dairy sour cream or créme fraiche.
• Then make a decision: Do you want a smooth fool or a lumpy fool? If the answer is smooth, puree 4 cups (1 L.) of berries with 1/2 cup (125 mL.) sugar (less if they taste sweet enough) in a blender or food processor. Fold the cream into the fruit puree and chill. If you want a lumpy fool, mash the strawberries and sugar together with a potato masher, then fold in the cream.