• Baking Recipes,  Spoon desserts & puddings,  The Breakfast Bin

    Sweet sweet mornings and Mango bread pudding

    What defines a morning person? Are these the people who wake up super early in the morning and already are balls of energy ready to burst? Are these the people who never seem to have any problems waking up at 4AM but are in bed by 9 in the evening? Or perhaps these are the people who somehow automatically wake up bright and early even if they slept late the night before? Despite being neither of those, I still do think I’m a morning person. I don’t wake up obscenely early and begin puttering around the house because I enjoy some extra minutes of sleep. And even though I don’t…

  • Baking Recipes,  Dearly Dreaming Dorie,  From the books,  Quickbreads & Loaves,  The Breakfast Bin

    {Dearly Dreaming Dorie} The most amazing Mango Bread

    I’ve been waiting for mango season to roll around, and in my neck of the woods, it finally has! One of the best perks about living in a tropical country is that we’ve got mangoes all year round, however the best and sweetest of the crop are harvested around this time. The mangoes here in the Philippines are gorgeously shaped, yellow and very fragrant; with an addictive sweetness that makes them extremely hard to resist. Mangoes are one of my favourite fruits in the whole universe; second only to Chinese Honey Oranges, or ponkan. As a child though, mangoes were my uncontested favourite. I would often have it with my…