April 27, 2009

Tis the season to be merry!

If you are a ex-Lime Bar back-up singer, living in London and working in IT - DONT LOOK NOW!! It's for your own good, I'm telling you as a friend ...
Yip folks - it's feijoa time. And anyone doing a stint overseas knows they are missing out on the quintessential kiwi season.

KM delivered a stack of them off MA's trees on Friday night and whipped up a great cake. Feijoa's are so good - chutney, cakes, muffins, fruit sponge or crumbles. All the feijoa's on KM's cake started off on top of the cake ....

But then fell to the bottom - oh la la - this beauty tasted even better after a days work in the garden!
Of course feijoa is now in the form of decent alcohol thanks to 42 Below. My favourite cocktails are 42 Below Feijoa Vodka and old-fashioned apple juice, followed closely by 42 Below Feijoa Vodka and Chi - with a slice of cucumber. The latter is less sickly sweet and could almost be the kiwi style of a "Jug of Pimms" in the summer!

5 comments:

Fresh Tea : said...

I love making Ambrosia with feijoas!
Soooo gooood!

http://www.stpatinv.school.nz/recipes/ambrosia.htm

Anonymous said...

You're killing me!!! think you put the pictures in for extra torture!

oh the sweet SWEET taste of a feijoas....how i miss thee so!

on a brighter note - we had our first BBQ of the year last week! London town is warmin up at the mo (20+)...which aint to bad for april...tho still not enough for feijoa's to grow :(

love 2 u n uncle! + pj!
M xx

P.s.
Now easters over when are we gonna chat?

castingontrouble said...

go the mighty feijoa folks!

Serenata said...

Not working in IT, but do live in the UK, but can safely say they are one thing I don't miss! ;-) I made myself sick eating a sack (big brown paper rubbish bag) full of them when I was about 9 - 10 years old and have never been able to eat them since!

This made me laugh - can remember sitting with my friend gorging on them.

Fresh Tea : said...

Must have cake recipe now, as only cake Button will eat after baking while she was visiting you!