Jon Sullivan

It's the season to be appreciative of #feijoafizz.

I think it was @zeborah here who first told me about this neat trick. Don't throw your feijoa skins away. Put them in a clean bottle (or jar) and fill with water and leave them for a day or two.

The fruit flavour leaches into the water and the yeasts in the skin lightly ferment. The result is a feijoa flavoured lightly fizzy drink.

The recipe linked below goes all in and uses sugar. I've just been sticking the skins in bottles, waiting, then drinking.

It's surprisingly flavourful and refreshing.

http://www.thriftykiwi.co.nz/meals-and-snacks/feijoa-fizz

#feijoa #nz #drink

Apr 10 at 10:43pmWeb
Show threadColin Burgess17h ago
@joncounts I’ve got two small feijoas in my yard but they haven’t fruited yet!
Show threadJon Sullivan16h ago
@colinburgess Some of the feijoas in Christchurch are going crazy already. These fruit are from my sister's feijoas. The ones in our garden are not quite there yet.
Show threadPhilip10h ago
@joncounts @colinburgess Judging by appearances, I have 2 varieties at my place. The smaller tree looks like the ones in this photo (rounder and smoother) and always are a few weeks ahead of the far more mature trees (more like pickles!).
Show threadJon Sullivan10h ago

@mez @colinburgess Speaking of pickles, I just searched and there are recipes for pickled feijoas.

(I usually just eat them all raw though. I'd need more restraint to try recipes like this.)

https://gardenbetty.com/sweet-hot-pickled-feijoas/

Sweet Hot Pickled Feijoas - Garden Betty

At last, I can see the back of my refrigerator. It's been several weeks of feijoas in salads, feijoas on oatmeal, feijoas on pancakes, feijoas in Dutch

Garden Betty
Show threadZeborah13h ago
@joncounts I do prefer it with sugar (it adds food for the yeast for presumably more fizz but also I have a sweet tooth) but yes that fragrance is the best.