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Make a sorbet!
1 small guanabana deseeded
2 tablespoons fresh lemon or lime juice
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar (if needed or to taste)Place guanabana and lemon juice in a food processor; process until smooth. Add sugar; process 1 minute or until sugar dissolves.
Pour mixture into the freezer can of an ice-cream freezer; freeze according to manufacturer’s instructions. Spoon sorbet into a freezer-safe container. Cover and freeze 1 hour or until firm.If you don’t have an ice-cream freezer, use a covered metal bowl. Freeze mixture 3 hours or until it is hard on the outside but slushy in the middle. Remove it from the freezer, beat it with a whisk until smooth, and return to the freezer, covered, for 4 hours until firm.
there’s a woman in PZ who sells nuts in bulk. also there’s a spice store in San Ramon who sells them in big bags. contact me off list and i will give you the name of my friend in PZ. she also has organic quinoa, rice, and coconut oil.
Has anyone ever run into maracuya sold as pulp at the grocery store? I’ve bought a few different varieties, (pina, guanabana)sold in plastic bags in the refridgerated section but have never seen maracuya sold other than the fruit.
It’s by far my favorite fruit juice but a real hassle to remove the seeds.
I’ve googled pie recipes using them and noticed a few recipes with seeds included, but that doesn’t really appeal to me.
Passion fruit ( maracuya) makes a mighty fine drink when mixed with rum too :D…again, the seeds are always a problem as they are difficult to remove even when using a sieve.Blend it with some sugar water, then strain it. Very simple.
The worst fruit, I think, for trying to remove the seeds is [url=http://biogeodb.stri.si.edu/bioinformatics/dfm/metas/view/18117]Annona montana[/url], which is very round approx. the size of a baseball and is a close relation of Guanabana but with lots more seeds, but it is well worth the effort.Dumb question…Blend as with a blender or stir with sugar water. I’m assuming this is done to get rid of the gooish consistency before straining? Reason I ask is , wouldn’t that amount to a bunch of crushed seeds that will go thru the strainer?
Heading to Cocobolo Tree Farm next week for some harder-to-find fruit trees and pick up a Neem tree for a friend. Has anyone had experience with their trees?
Although quite large, they are[i] much more expensive[/i] than you can find elsewhere. I didn’t find their selection very good and definitely not better than the small [i]vivero[/i] between Canas and Tileran. You have to drive through fields to get there…
Phone Cocobolo in advance else no-one will be there to let you in.
This isn’t the best time of year to plant them, although I know you have more rain. I would wait a few months.[b]vache[/b], mix 1 cup sugar with a little hot water to dissolve the sugar, then some cold water to make 3-4 cups ‘sweetened water’ depending to taste. I always keep some in a jar in the fridge for later use.
Add 1/2 cup of the ‘sweet water’ plus approx 3 c. ice water to 3-4 passion fruit of choice as some varieties are sweeter than others, then place all in the blender for 2-3 mins. which will ‘loosen’ the pulp. Then strain, The ‘seeds’ will not pulverize.
I make wine with both the tart yellow peel/skin maracuja and the[i] Granadilla grande[/i] and no sign of seeds are allowed!I understand that the positive about Cocobolo is variety and that the trees are older and with better root systems than the usual vivaro. Comments?
I like the idea of using a simple syrup with the passion fruit but would prefer to have a pulp without excess water and sugar.
Will get back to you with results after I test out passion fruit seed removal using my salad spinner…hehI agree about the planting time issue although we are irrigated. But the question is about quality and roots. I have bought what looked like lovely trees and shrubs at vivaros only to find that they had few solid roots and were very slow to take hold in new soil. So, is the quality better at Cocobolo??
Most of their trees are larger than what is usually available, so the root system [u]should[/u] be more established. How can one tell unless you actually see the plant in question? If price is not a concern, buy them there.
We bought quite a few trees for a friends property at his request so the decision to buy there wasn’t ours, and for the most part they did ‘OK’.
The trees are used to hotter/drier conditions that where you want to transplant them so take this into consideration.
None of the Avocado trees did well.
The owners son, who may be your salesman, doesn’t seem to know much about what he is selling … although he could read the name on the label, so you must already have the information on what your require.TY Finca. I think that, as long as the root system is solid, we will do well. As to avacados, they grow so fast from seed that we never thought of buying a tree. Coco does have neem trees though and the oil is a natural pesticide (Maravilla would be pleased).
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