29 Jul 2010

Snack Healthy: Fruit & Nut


Snacking is unavoidable in winter. Trying to snack on healthy stuff is an even  harder task!

We have a feijoa tree in the garden (which has stopped bearing fruit after I started this post that has been delayed a few weeks hahaha)and its nice to pick fruit out of the garden and just snack away...now I wish I had a mango, pineapple, durian trees in the garden....

What I found on wikipedia on fejioa (for the benefit of my friend, Karen, who hasn't heard of feijoa!):

The Feijoa (pronounced /feɪˈʒoʊ.ə/, /feɪˈdʒoʊ.ə/,[1] or /feɪˈhoʊ.ə/[2]) (Feijoa sellowiana), also known as Pineapple Guava, Guavasteen (and sometimes mistakenly as Freijoa or Frijoa), is an evergreen shrub or small tree, 1–7 metres (3.3–23 ft) in height. The plant originates from the highlands of southern Brazil and parts of Colombia, Uruguay, and northern Argentina

Large quantities of the fruit are grown in New Zealand, where it is a popular garden tree and the fruit commonly is available in season. The New Zealand season runs from March to June. (hence, me missing the season hahaha)



On another (delayed) note, the boyf collected some walnuts during his trip to Hicks Bay on the East Cape - officially love walnuts now - coffee-like flavour with the nutty bite (makes sense?) :)


Gotta get up to speed with my other posts! Been eating lots of good food lately but haven't had time to blog about them! ;)

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