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Memorial Day Marks The Start Of Summer, So We’d Like To Offer You A Special Promotion: 10% Discount & Breakfast!

May 28th, 2012

Memorial Day marks the start of summer, so we’d like to offer you a special promotion: 10% Discount and Breakfast! Book a Balam, Casita or Master Suite and receive 10% Discount with Continental Breakfast – or – a 1- or 2-Bedroom Villa and receive 10% Discount with Full Breakfast!

Meanwhile, enjoy one of our fave popsicles:

Coconut Mango Popsicle

Ingredients

2 Cups Water

1 ¼ Cups Mile – Whole

½ Teaspoon Kosher Salt

2 Large Mangos – Ripened

1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract

1 15-Oz. Can Coconut Milk – Shaken

1 Vanilla (Bean) – Halved Lengthwise

1 14-Oz. Can Condensed Milk – Sweetened

1 Cup Arborio or Grain (Short) Rice – White

Preparation

Whisk coconut and whole milks in saucepan. Scrape and stir bean seeds into milk. Stir rice into milk and simmer – medium. Lower heat and cook for 25 minutes, until tender. Whisk condensed milk, salt, vanilla and water into mixture. Peel mangoes; dice into ½-inch cubes and fold into mixture. Transfer into ice-pop molds, insert sticks and freeze 3-4 hours.


In Honor Of Spring: Our Top 10 Gelato (All Made In-House With Local Ingredients!)

April 20th, 2012

1.) Choco Banana

2.) Hazelnut Caramel

3.) Sweet/Sugar Corn

4.) Dark Chocolate And Ginger

5.) Mango And Cilantro (Seasonal)

6.) Classic Vanilla, Lemon And Mint

7.) Soursop [Guanabana (Seasonal)]

8.) Mammy Apple [Sapote (Seasonal)]

9.) Custard Apple [Annona (Seasonal)]

10.) Craboo [Nance Cherries (Seasonal)]

Soursop (Guanabana)

Green, prickly skin with soft, fleshy white interior and lots of black seeds. Perfect when scooped out of the skin, served cold with milk and sugar; not overly sweet, but has a distinct flavor.

Belize Exotic Fruits, Seeds

Custard Apple (Annona)

Size and shape is like an over-sided apple. Skin is a mottled pinkish-red and the actual fruit is whitish-pink with small seeds; sweet, distinct flavor.

Belize Exotic Fruits, Seeds

Craboo (Nance Cherry)

Small, bright yellow, berry-like fruit with a hard seed inside; sweet when ripe.

Belize Exotic Fruits, Seeds

Mammy Apple (Sapote)

Hard, brown outer shell while interior is burnt-orange, smooth and sweet; has a large black seed.

Belize Exotic Fruits, Seeds