Mango Pudding Recipe

I love mango pudding.  I could eat it all day.  Here is an easy recipe for some yummy mango pudding.

Ingredients

Mango Pulp - 850 ml (or use 2 regular cans of sliced mangos)
Fresh ripe mango - 1
Whipping Cream - 500 ml
Gelatin - 4 small packets
Sugar - 1 cup
Cold water to add - 2 cups
Cold water to boil - 2 cups

Instructions

1. Remove the skin and pit from the fresh mango.  Dice up mango pieces and set aside. 
2. If you used the sliced canned mangos, dice up the mango pieces and mash some of them.  
3. Combine gelatine powder and sugar.
4. Put 2 cups of cold water into a pot and add the gelatin and sugar.
5. Bring water to a boil, stirring occasionally. Ensure that sugar and gelatin have been dissolved.  Mixture should become clear.
6. Turn off heat.
7. Add mango pulp and 2 cups of cold water.  Mix.
8. Add whipping cream.  Mix.
9. Let cool.
10. Chill in refrigerator.
11. Enjoy!   

Notes

• This mango pudding is not like Jello pudding.  It's more like mango jello, but softer.  Maybe you could call this mango mousse, but you can serve this like a cake...
• I used the sliced mangos for the pudding shown in the photo I didn't use the drained mango juice, but I think I could have added some of it without any problems. (I couldn't find the canned mango pulp at first.  I eventually found some at Superstore in the East Indian foods section.)  
• The fresh mango makes it taste more fresh and fragrant.  You could experiment with using all fresh mangos for this recipe.  I think it would be awesome.
• You could swap out mango and replace it with pureed strawberries instead.

Reading Break Bliss

It's the middle of a reading break.  It feels sooooo goooood to sleep in, watch TV, and relax.  I think my classmates and I really needed this.

Midterms
The week before reading break was crazy.  We had three midterm exams and one skills mastery exam.  Lucky me got the IV push to demonstrate.  I was very nervous about it, but I did fine in the end.  It's definitely good practice for the real thing.

The Good-For-Nothing Zero
On top of this, we got some marks back and I was gifted with the delightful surprise of a ZERO on  my written paper for Pathophysiology.  Apparently I had used the wrong kind of article because I didn't realize that "Current Opinion" is just another name for "Editorial".  *groan*  I wouldn't normally get a zero for this, but my teacher refuses to mark papers that don't fit the assignment criteria.  *double groan* So since she won't read the paper, I can't get any marks.  I'm not allowed to rewrite and resubmit the paper either so I'm basically, well... S.O.L.

Why me?

I was very upset about it, and I still am, but I can't do anything about it.  Instead I have to double my efforts to study the material so that I can redeem my sad, sad mark.  I got about 83% on the midterm exam.  That's normally pretty good, but I'll have to aim for something closer to perfect to make sure that I still finish off with a respectable grade.

Grrr, it makes me so angry.  I should have at least gotten marks for the criteria that I did meet.  Getting marks for even APA formatting would have been great.  The worst part is that, aside from using an editorial article, it was actually a pretty good paper!  I worked really hard on it!  Now I'm getting the kind of mark I would get for not handing in a paper at all.  How is that fair?

Bah, but it's pointless to fret.  It's all non-negotiable.  Good bye pretty GPA!

Surviving Clinical
Anyhow, the good news is that I had my midterm meeting with my clinical instructor and she thinks I'm doing fine.  I always dread those meetings because that's when they'll tell you if you've screwed up and it's time to say goodbye to nursing school.  So far, four students will be leaving us.  Some of them were given the "either drop out or fail out" speech and some of them have had such a hard time with their instructors that they need a break.

I always hate it when this happens, but it's starting to be pretty standard.  The funny thing is that this is a lot like my old job.  Every year there were layoffs.  It was never good for morale, but it always happened anyways.

Well, I better get back to my study break.  I haven't studied yet, but I did write a paper and hand it in.  The paper isn't due until the end of next month so, hopefully, I'll get feedback and have time to fix any major problems before it's too late.  *fingers crossed*

Have a great week!