Freeijoas; perfect. What variety? I'm thinking to plant a hedge of them this year. Unfortunately for the blueberry hedge, Nina did some gardening.

We arrived back yesterday to the start of our annual Feijoa carpet...
I've found a box at the gate, marked Freeijoas does the trick !

+1 for an alleviating hayfever and other ailments blog. We're just moving into that season up here and chrysanthemum tea is good for many things, but has never helped my hayfever or asthma, despite the advice of a friend who studies Traditional…

Saw into thick little steaks , or if backstraps (you lucky man) sear whole in hot pan until preferred doneness. Remove meat. Add 1T wholegrain mustard per person, splosh of verjuice/pomegranate molasses/apple cider vinegar, then…

Jackie we should hook up. I'm swimming in homemade sauces relishes etc. you are friends with Danielle right? Me too :) although largely on Facebook it must be said.

Righto here's the jam recipe.

CHILLI TOMATO JAM

Makes 4+ pints (about two litres)…

Will hold you to it. I made a cut down version of your sauce recipe. I just cut every ingredient down to 1/4 original. Tomato sauce was homemade (I'm currently drowning in them). It made maybe 800ml. Very…

And so I'm not completely jumping on the threadjack, I'll post a great recipe for chilli tomato jam later ... promise.

Me too Ben, lawn…

<3 that song. :-)

Yeah, it's strong stuff. Interferes with hormonal contraceptives.

I found an olive brining recipe that…

I tend to pile lawn clippings under citrus, too. They don't like root competition, and it's a regular addition of nutrients that you've got to put somewhere anyway.…

Grapefruit has been contraindicated for at least 3 different medications I've been on.

I did used to juice it and add something sweeter to it, like sugar or orange juice. But I do find juicing citrus to be a PITA.

There’s a song about sloe gin fizz …

http://youtu.be/VuC_l3ymXhM

Oh, I like the look of that!

Feijoa related products are the first things I buy on every visit back to NZ. They're very rare here, Sydney-siders generally don't know what they are.

http://www.ladiesaplate.co.nz/recipes/jams-and-preserves/roasted-feijoa-chutney.html

Yes indeedy. Though I should clarify that you don’t make the gin part, you just make bought gin sloe-y. You pick a whole lot of sloe (blackthorn) berries, prick them all over with a needle or a fork (or if you’re really making heaps, some people…

After all these years of reading your stuff…

That's how I restored a failing lemon tree , lemon trees it seems just loved to be pissed on. Same for orchids.

Sterilised bottles but not bottled hot, right?

In contrast, I bottled a full bucketload of guavas yesterday and hope to make pâté/jubes on the weekend. What…

I have a theory that wealthy people's garden sheds and kitchens are bursting with cruel and unusual gadgets. That comes from me having inherited much of a close relative's kitchen contents and garden kit. There were many specialised gougers, slashers and crunchers (and that was in…

Razor blades! Holy crap.

There's a subject: lemon tree failures. Ours is in the best spot…

Brilliant! Imma try with a big catfood tin. I'm guessing a sharpish inside edge is helpful. :-)

Sigh. Our neighbours had an old lemon tree with gnarly big, juicy fruit — much better than shop lemons. They tried to replant it recently when…

grapefruit marmalade

I think grapefruit’s divine fresh, halved, heated in the microwave with a sprinkle of sugar or a dollop of honey. Unfortunately my digestive system finds it not so good. Otherwise I’d eat it all the time!

you can do that?

Why couldn’t it have been a lemon tree?! Why?!

Yes, good for nothing grapefruit. Graft onto it maybe? Cut it to a…

Yes!

I wonder if that Milo tin's still in the recycling bin...

marv3llous

spoken like someone who doesn't drive to work
#cheers

In related news, as posted elsewhere, feijoa pizza is NOT a thing. Don't even think about it.

You're welcome. :-)

Check out this vintage Busytown post, the enthusiastic response to which was when it first seemed a food blog might be a goer...

I've made feijoa liqueur two seasons running and it is the nectar of the…

It's here if you care to spy
http://nigelgnomegrowsavegetable.blogspot.co.nz/

Taken as one :)

It's called a lab book ... and people call me a crazy scientist.

You crazy scientists! ;-)

You don't really need it with olives. The point is to ensure sterility, with chutneys etc you need to be sure you don't let in any air because the chutney is great food for fungi and…

If you have the $$, this is great thing to do:

Slice figs in half and press a piece of goat's cheese into the cavity of each half.

Wrap each half with a strip of prosciutto or pancetta.…

I've been wondering about how that works with olives, which you don't bottle hot.

Yes! Several people have pointed them out to me but I forgot to mention them in the post.

Any pop-top jar will do, unless the top has been damaged. Jam, relish, and pasta sauce often come in perfectly reusable jars. The pop-tops will pop down again over your own preserves, voilà!

The only trick is getting the lid off…

I used to think this as well, but there are now some new [cultivars?/clones?] available that do have a good…

Feijoa trees usually need another tree nearby to pollinate them. They can produce fruit on their own but a second tree within insect range is required to get good yields. In Auckland every second house has a feijoa tree so ...

*They do seem to ripen a month or two later though

As for your feijoas, I…

On the off chance there are spare quinces lying around, I'd very much like to get my hands on some he mused – there's a venison…

If you're buying preserving jars, Moore Wilson in Wgtn…

I make cakes to freeze, chutneys and pastes that does me all year (damn, have you seen the price…

Nah. Lye is fine so long as you treat it with respect. Sodium hydroxide (lye) comes in pellets or ground to a powder, it absorbs water from the air so the powdered form and the pellets need to be in a sealed container.…

I don't think we've ever had less than approx. eleventy-million of the things.

(I think we're going to get two wee feijoas on our Wellington trees this year. Maybe next year...)

Yeah. Lye seemed a bit bloody scary.

Although I did not expect it, he was so appreciative of the gesture…

I guess I should have had more sympathy…