13 Tuesday Mar 2012
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Oh yum. Feijoa flavoured rock candy from Crazy Candies in New Zealand.
You can order your sweet addiction online at the Crazy Candies website if it’s not in a store near you! Just NZ$11.68 for a whole kilo! Smaller size bags available too.
14 Friday Oct 2011
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Any feijoa lover will be able to point you in the direction of a bottle of 42 Below feijoa vodka.
This and those feijoa hard boiled lollies are the standby of ex-pat Kiwis who can not locate their favourite fruit wherever in the world they may be. Sadly – or happily for my liver – I don’t drink anymore but if I did, a bottle of this would be number one on my list.
I can’t get enough of this particular advertising shot which just captures the essence of our favourite green little fruit.
Or this one. The link leads to a broken Russian site, so I am not entirely sure where this advert originates.
You can find out more about 42 Below and their award winning products over at 42 Below.
20 Saturday Aug 2011
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Feijoa’s short and brilliant season sadly means at least eight months of the year without any fruit but fortunately there are numerous ways to satisfy the cravings. Lucky are those who can bottle, preserve or freeze tons of pulp and fruit and reuse it throughout the year whenever they desire. For those of us who don’t have access to large quantities in season, then the options include chocolate, vodka and jam. (Well, those happen to be my preferred options.)
For the past few weeks I’ve been indulging in a classic feijoa jam from Hinterland Feijoas. I’ve written briefly about Hinterland Feijoas before, but I mention them again because Sally Hookey is just sooo passionate about feijoas and the industry and her own orchard – and because she enlisted the help of Sunshine Coast chef Peter Wolfe to create their range of delicious jams. Which makes them something special.
The feijoa flavour packs a punch (phew, craving satisfied) and there is a wonderful fine grittiness to the jam that captures the grainy texture of the fruit. Sweet and aromatic, just perfect for morning tea with my new favourite lemonade scones and a definite cure for my winter blues.
You can buy these jams at a bunch of exciting places around the Sunshine Coast or you can mail order them directly – find out more details on the Hinterland Feijoas website.
12 Thursday May 2011
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MOR Cosmetics feijoa lime body butter
I adore MOR Cosmetics and can often be found lingering over a display contemplating which delicious fragrance I love the most. Now that I’ve just discovered they have used feijoa in one of their ranges, I’m even more of a fan.
I’ve never seen the feijoa lime products in any of the stores I’ve been to (I might have to look a little harder now that I am aware of it) but you can visit the MOR Cosmetics website where you can order Feijoa Lime Soap 200g (AU$19.95), Feijoa Lime Hand Cream 100ml (AU$24.95), Feijoa Lime Body Butter 150ml (AU$29.95) or Feijoa Lime Candle 184g (AU$39.95) – all in the Emporium White Collection.
MOR Cosmetics feijoa lime soap
MOR please.
16 Wednesday Feb 2011
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I’m just back from a quick jaunt to New Zealand (it’s only a three hour flight from Sydney which makes a long weekend quite an enjoyable excursion, even if you’re there under sad circumstances). I didn’t get an opportunity to scout around the boutiques and fine food places, but I did raid the duty free shops on the way back out. This is what I found:
(The kiwifruit chocolate is in there as an example of the best kind of product packaging I’ve seen in a while – gorgeous).
Mmmm. Back soon with a tastebud report.
21 Friday Jan 2011
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For a taste of home when you’re away from home…
This feijoa jam is available from an Australian website Pepler’s Fine Foods Australia.
Pepler's feijoa jam
It’s made in Te Kauwhata (and I had to look that up) which is in the Waikato region of New Zealand. One 300g jar is AU$6.20 at the time of writing.
14 Sunday Nov 2010
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I hate to admit it but I am really not a fan of muesli – I am more of an oats or toast or eggs kind of gal. So I don’t want to spend any amount of time pretending that I have tried any of these and love them (I would probably love them more than I love other muesli because they are feijoa-flavoured, but all that puffed rice, puffed wheat and other flakey kind of stuff just isn’t to my taste first thing in the morning.) And the real truth is Hubbards don’t export to Australia and I just haven’t found feijoa cereal at the local grocery store where my Dad lives in New Zealand. But I admit I am curious because to kickstart the day with feijoa all year round appeals mightily.
So I am really including these here as the first examples I’ve found of box art and packaging featuring the humble feijoa.
Hubbards Feijoa Lite Muesli
Hubbards Light & Right Feijoa Muesli
Hubbards Light & Right Feijoa Frolic
08 Monday Nov 2010
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I hunted for this chocolate bar from Bennetts of Mangawhai while I was back in New Zealand earlier this year and just couldn’t find it. So it may be the perfect time for a bit of internet mail ordering. It’s about six months or so until the trees start fruiting and it kind of feels like a deep dark winter as far as getting a feijoa fix goes. Especially over here in Australia.
For chocolate aficionados, this bar is made from the finest Belgium couverture and New Zealand feijoas. [For anyone unfamiliar with the term, that's a high quality chocolate that contains extra cocoa butter (32-39%). The higher percentage of cocoa butter, combined with the processing, gives the chocolate more sheen, firmer "snap" when broken, and a creamy mellow flavour. (Thanks Wikipedia.)]
Bennetts of Mangawhai Feijoa Chocolate
You can buy it direct from Bennett’s own website for NZ$4.30 a bar – Visa and Mastercard accepted. I am really thinking about economies of scale and how much is enough for personal consumption… and can I keep it hidden from the rest of the family and is that right? Well, no, not really.
