Sadly, the feijoa season is all but over. My favourite fruit. Something of which I have a hard time enjoying just one, I always think a pile of them do the wonderful flavour more justice.Like vegemite, there is no middle ground with feijoas, you either love or hate the flavour. To me feijoas are a completely unique flavour, but I have heard them described as banana-like but with a citrus flavour. A friend of mine describes them as tasting like iron ; which I like to hear because it means that I get presents of huge boxes of feijoas from her several dozen trees!
My mother makes feijoa chutney, several people I know make feijoa jam, stewed feijoas feature in pies and sauces, and a friend of mine is about to bottle his home made feijoa cider. But the only thing I can ever bring myself to do with this fruit is to eat them raw, by themselves, scooping the flesh from the skin of each half with a spoon. So delicious.I wonder if feijoas are as popular outside New Zealand? Are they treasured in their native land, South America? How are they treated in our biggest export market, America?
3 comments:
Bron - I love the idea of using them as canape bases!
I don't know that I've ever seen one of these (of course, they may be on some of the fruit stands and I just didn't notice them...)
I just looked them up in wikipedia (great resource) and see that they are roughly the shape of kiwi fruit (but not furry like kiwi)
I adore guava - although it's not all that easy to come by here in Canada. Is the taste of a feijoa at all similar to that of guava?
-Elizabeth
Crazy that they would put fejoas on a plane to sell at a market in Dublin. Perhaps if you were desperate for a taste of home, but the airmiles would put me off too!
Elizabeth - I don't think that fejoas taste anything like guava - perhaps you need a trip to NZ (or Dublin!) at Easter sometime?!
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