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Posted: 31 May 2007 at 3:45pm |
My friend came to stay this week and bought all sorts of goodies from her organic garden so I have been busy making baby food all afternoon, but I have a silly question.
Other than the fact I can't stand them,  I don't know much about Feijoas, (they never made it to the UK for some reason) but can I make them into a puree for a first stage food for Fay? Otherwise they will just rot in the fridge until I chuck them out
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Posted: 31 May 2007 at 5:00pm |
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You could puree them and freeze them, but as far as I know they recommend waiting until 8-9 months for feijoas.
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Posted: 31 May 2007 at 5:02pm |
...... and I didn't know you were a foreigner too!?  (until now that is!)
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Posted: 31 May 2007 at 5:10pm |
 ErinsMama wrote:
...... and I didn't know you were a foreigner too!? (until now that is!) |
Me neither - and Jax is right, they are a second/third stage food, but no reason why they wouldn't freezefor later on
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Posted: 31 May 2007 at 5:17pm |
Stew them whole, then freeze. Puree once defrosted, as they tend to go slushy.
I'd wait til 2nd stage to introduce to your lil one b/c they are acidic or whatever 
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Posted: 31 May 2007 at 5:25pm |
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Cool thats what i needed to know, I can chuck them in the freezer and then hope in a few months time that Fay doesn't develop her mothers picky food habbits, hopefully she will be like her dad who is a human dustbin.
and yep I'm a foreigner but don't really feel like one now, only about things like Feijoas. Moved over from England about 3 and half years ago and haven't regerettd it for a moment
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Posted: 31 May 2007 at 8:57pm |
You can stew them for a crumble/sponge pudding or put them in muffins... you might like them that way? (But don't quote me. I've tried so many ways to get DH to like kumara and it never works!  )
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Posted: 31 May 2007 at 9:13pm |
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Mmmmmm stewed feijoas - yummmmmm.
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Posted: 31 May 2007 at 9:41pm |
busymum wrote:
I've tried so many ways to get DH to like kumara and it never works! ) |
Hmm kumara's another one, we never had them at home and I can't get my head round them either
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Posted: 31 May 2007 at 9:48pm |
LOL Claire
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Posted: 31 May 2007 at 10:37pm |
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i grew up eating stewed feijoas...YUMMY...
as for kumara - there are so many differnt types but i am a yellow / golden kumara girl!
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Posted: 01 June 2007 at 10:08am |
Oh Claire, how can you be living here for 3.5 years and still not like fejoas and kumera!
i lived in London for 6 years and missed my fejoas so much. The last two years I've been home I have just gone overboard on eating them when they are in season.
Have you tried the pasionfruit, it is a bit different to the passionfruit over there and also very very yummy.
Sweet potato is pretty close to kumera....but not quite
Glad you enjoy living here, I loved my time in the UK nad would still be there if it wasn't for a slight mishap in the bedroom with DH that turned into a DD!
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Posted: 01 June 2007 at 3:58pm |
Spudling wrote:
Oh Claire, how can you be living here for 3.5 years and still not like fejoas and kumera!
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Sorry I've tried them in muffins, with ginger, stewed, raw, chopped up really small so I don't know they are in it, and I can pick up feijoa at a hundred paces.
I guess I will never get a kiwi passport will I?
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Posted: 01 June 2007 at 4:46pm |
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I guess I will never get a kiwi passport will I? |
You will be struggling, I believe there are a few questions in your application form re your likings of fejoas and the likes
Just like in the UK passport application forms we had to prove we could call pants trousers and soccer football with no hessitation and drink warm flat beer and enjoy it
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Posted: 01 June 2007 at 4:52pm |
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I AM A KIWI AND I HATE FEIJOAS. ick ick ick. we have three ginormous trees and I collected them and gavce them away to pratcially everyone I knew. foul tasting things. did invent a nice walnut and feija cake though that was lovely
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Posted: 02 June 2007 at 9:58am |
we have a feijoa TREE as big as the house. My first year here there were new and nice, second, third, fouth years etc the very smell makes me gag
So if anyone wants any come help yourself
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Posted: 02 June 2007 at 11:12am |
*hops in the car and heads west* 
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Posted: 02 June 2007 at 1:37pm |
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*hops in the car and heads west* |
Jacquie, I'm already there, had to hire a helicopter to beat you though
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Posted: 03 April 2008 at 11:14pm |
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Oooooh I'm just the oposite, we've been in the UK for 5 yrs now and I was so ridiculously excited when we went to a restaurant called The Kiwi Kitchen in Fulham a few mths back cos they had Feijoa's on the menu - the chef (taranki lad) imports them himself, heavens above they were soooooooooooooooooooooooo yummy!!!!! I asked for some extra feijoa on my Apple and Feijoa tart, expecting it stewed or something and ended up with a whole feijoa to take home... at £2.50!!!! Thats like $7 for ONE FEIJOA!!!!! Needless to say I treasured it, sniffed it constantly on the way home and saved the skins til they went brown. I must have looked mad sniffing my empty feijoa skins but man it was worth it!!!!
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