The 2025–2026 mango season has officially begun in our kitchen! Today’s gift: a perfectly sweet, lightly chilled mousse made from the first five ripe Paraguayan mangoes.
These aren't the commercial varieties you find in stores. They are the wild, ancestral mangoes that grow from seed without human intervention—smaller, more fibrous, but bursting with a primal vitality ("Urkraft") you can truly taste, smell, and feel.
The season here normally starts in December, but nature offered a beautiful early preview. These five mangoes were collected over two days, gathered fresh from the ground the moment they ripened and fell. It’s a practice of patient foraging—accepting nature’s gifts exactly when she provides them.
This simple act of transforming wild fruit into a nourishing treat is more than just making food; it’s a daily ritual. It’s the entire process: foraging, cleaning, extracting the vibrant juice, and sometimes even combining it with healing plants from the garden.
It makes me dream of our "C-A-I-P-C Nutritarian Cookbook" including not just the health benefits of ingredients like mango, moringa, and sage, but also these "hands-on rituals of connection"—the practical, joyful steps from tree to table.
This is the heart of true nourishment: being an active part of the cycle.
**What’s your favorite way to connect with the season’s harvest?**
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