Month: April 2018
North Shore locals ‘peeved’ after brazen fruit felons pluck feijoas from their backyard
From New Zealand Herald
Published 17:40 22/04/2018
An Auckland family is ‘peeved’ after bucket loads of fruit were stolen from feijoa trees in their backyard. … A resident in Massey, Jody Middleton, said she was appalled when she received a call from her neighbour late last week, who said her feijoa trees had been stripped of fruit. … “They’ve gone for the feijoas, but left the other trees.
I admit – this story brought back memories – from a long time ago!!
For the full article – Here
The Green Kitchen: Feijoa manuka chutney
The Green Kitchen: Feijoa manuka chutney, a friend to meat, fish and chicken
From Waikato Times
Published 13:36 20/04/2018
Feijoa manuka chutney, aka, party in my mouth. … This feijoa chutney is an exotic, divinely-flavoured taste sensation that is wonderfully addictive and plays around on your tongue with wonderful sweet, sharp, hot and sour notes. … Use your abundance friends (or ask for your neighbours surplus, in return for a jar of goodness) and bottle this baby to use fabulous feijoa throughout the year.
Recipe and article here
RNZ National morning rural – 13 April
From Radio New Zealand Audio
Published 07:18 13/04/2018
Southern Belle Orchard is a family-run business in Matamata in Waikato with about 3000 feijoa trees, exporting up to half of the fruit. … Family member Emily Meese says prices for feijoas usually start dropping in April but she says at the moment the fruit is selling in the domestic market for about $1 more than at the same time last year, sitting at around $9 a kilo.
The recording of this article is available here
Kiwi cuisine’s greatest hits
From Stuff.co.nz
Published 16:19 10/04/2018
For half of NZ, feijoas are definitley a kiwi icon, as this article reports
Hailing from South America, where it’s also known as pineapple guava, the feijoa is objectively a weird fruit. … The texture is gritty, then soft and slightly jelly-like, and the flavour is distinctively feijoa: it’s perfumey, sweet and sometimes sour. … The great thing about feijoa is its versatility, making great chutneys, jams, cakes and crumbles, as well as the fact so many people have a tree in their backyard.
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Annabel Langbein’s Feijoa Friands
From Radio New Zealand Audio
Published 13:31 04/04/2018
It’s feijoa season, so we invited Annabel Langbein in to talk feijoas, as she has a new cookbook out – Essential Volume Two: Sweet Treats for Every Occasion. … She will share her recipe for Feijoa Friands which you can find here (links to external website).