Mango Crepes

Sometimes it's difficult to find a way to celebrate special events here in Musoma. Our options are limited! Another tricky thing is figuring out how to meet cravings for foods that aren't available here. This morning, I think we were pretty successful at both in one go.

For seven years Andrew has faithfully been paying off his student loans from Oregon State. It's a good thing he loved the school and did really well in his classes, or else he might've started to get a bit bitter about sending money to the U.S. Department of Education every single month for years and years! This morning was the final payment, and it seemed like a great moment for a little celebration.

On a different note, both of us have been missing peaches lately. There's just something so sweety, juicy, and altogether wonderful about peach pie, peach cobbler, fresh peaches with a little sugar on them, and everything peach. I've been wanting to try using mangoes like I'd normally use peaches and see how it went. This morning I gave it a go...

And the result was fabulous! I whipped up some crepes using the exact same recipe my parents used when making birthday breakfasts in past years (back when they ate 'evil' foods like milk and eggs...), and they were perfect. Then I sliced two mangoes and cut them into small pieces. With a little water, cinnamon, nutmeg, sugar, salt, and cornstarch added to them and boiled for a while, voila! We had perfect "peach" crepe filling right here in Musoma.

Since I grew up associating crepes with birthday breakfast celebrations and Andrew only remembers having had crepes once in his life, they were quite celebratory and we enjoyed making this morning special to mark the end of payments to the US Dept of Education and we got a fruity treat at the same time. Hurray for a Saturday morning!