Passion fruit!!!! (Afrikaans: Grenadella)

~riette Fri, Jul 16, 1999 (16:25) seed

Kom nou - am I the only person around here who like it?

~MarciaH Fri, Jul 16, 1999 (16:35) #1

Lilikoi in Hawaiian is Passion fruit. We have it growing wild, both the purple and the yellow. A word of warning about making your own juice is let the pulp sink to the bottom and decant for your use only the clear portion. The pulp contains enough cyanide to give you severe gastrointestinal problems at the very least! But it makes iced tea wonderful!

~terry Fri, Jul 16, 1999 (19:50) #2

What's the recipe for using it with Iced Tea?

~MarciaH Fri, Jul 16, 1999 (20:13) #3

It is pretty strong straight. Try a teaspoon for starters and no sugar until you think it needs it. You will recognize the taste (Hawaiian punch if full of it) and can adjust it as you like. Let me know how you like it.

~riette Sat, Jul 17, 1999 (00:52) #4

I LUV passion fruit juice - but the pips have to stay in it to keep it chewy. yum yum!

~terry Sat, Jul 17, 1999 (07:52) #5

Pips?

~KitchenManager Sat, Jul 17, 1999 (09:00) #6

seeds

~MarciaH Sat, Jul 17, 1999 (11:35) #7

Not in Hawaii do we include the seeds...unless you like GI cramping! Papaya seeds, on the other hand, are most welcome - but only in salad dressing! Terry, if you will be using Passion friut concentrate, and depending on the size of the glass you are using, you might want to down-scale my recommended dosage - but I think a teaspoon is a good place to begin. This fruit is a fantastic source of vitamins.

~riette Sat, Jul 17, 1999 (16:00) #8

You eat papaya seeds??? Never!! Do you eat water melon seeds? We do.

~terry Sat, Jul 17, 1999 (16:05) #9

We spit those out.

~MarciaH Sat, Jul 17, 1999 (16:26) #10

No watermelon seeds, but fresh papaya seed crushed is like ground black pepper, only milder. BTW, Papaya (green) is what meat tenderizer is made of; it digests raw meat. Do not eat a lot of it and raw pineapple together. Bromelin in Pineapple (bromeliads) digests older protein. Together, they will clear you out most thoroughly and leave you sore from your mouth to your exit point. We eat pumpkin seeds. It is the best thing about carving a Jack-o-Lantern.

~KitchenManager Sat, Jul 17, 1999 (18:29) #11

*idea*

~MarciaH Sat, Jul 17, 1999 (18:31) #12

uh oh.......genius at work.....!

~KitchenManager Sat, Jul 17, 1999 (19:02) #13

that might be stretching the truth a little...

~MarciaH Sat, Jul 17, 1999 (19:06) #14

No it was not - I saw your newest creation....everyone...to topic 51 please!

~riette Sun, Jul 18, 1999 (15:08) #15

�rushing ahead eagerly�

~stacey Tue, Jul 20, 1999 (11:39) #16

*following not so closely behind, but rushing nonetheless*

~riette Tue, Jul 20, 1999 (13:11) #17

Good! Wouldn't want to worry about you scraping my heels with those long red toe-nails. Jeez, girl, lookit them!!

~stacey Tue, Jul 20, 1999 (15:18) #18

that's dusky plum Ree-head... not red!

~riette Wed, Jul 21, 1999 (02:55) #19

OH. Damn, and I thought I looked cool with these Oasis sunglasses . . . seems to be impairing my sight.

~stacey Wed, Jul 21, 1999 (09:27) #20

ahh... but the sunglasses do make youlook mysterious and oh so passion fruity!

~KitchenManager Wed, Jul 21, 1999 (14:32) #21

not to mention cool and edgy...

~riette Wed, Jul 21, 1999 (15:18) #22

�toothy grin� uh-hu uh-hu!

~stacey Wed, Jul 21, 1999 (15:27) #23

*cackle*

~MarciaH Wed, Jul 21, 1999 (19:03) #24

I can imagine the cool, the passion and the edgy. Forget the fruity!

~riette Thu, Jul 22, 1999 (09:15) #25

Juicy then?

~autumn Thu, Jul 22, 1999 (22:53) #26

I've probably eaten a half-pound of dried mangoes just sitting here...(sorry, no grenadella here!)

~MarciaH Thu, Jul 22, 1999 (23:23) #27

(Oh Yes *huge sigh*) Now, on to mangoes. If I were the ruler of the Garden of Eden I would have made mangoes the forbidden fruit because it is soooo goooood...we get dried ones all year long, but the fresh ones should be coming into edible ripeness about now. Beward of mangoes if you are allergic to pioson ivy!!!

~riette Fri, Jul 23, 1999 (03:05) #28

I LOVE LOVE LOVE mangos! How can anything so yellow, and so spotty and so stupidly shaped taste so heavenly???

~autumn Fri, Jul 23, 1999 (11:06) #29

Marcia for Ruler! Her platform is "fewer cars, more mangoes." That is interesting about the poison ivy; I am VERY allergic yet have no problem tolerating mangoes. Please explain the connection here.

~MarciaH Fri, Jul 23, 1999 (23:14) #30

shall we step next door to continue this conversation? (Thank you Autumn - love that platform.)

~MarciaH Tue, Aug 24, 1999 (23:08) #31

This is the long delayed (because I could not find it) lilikoi dilution: 3/4 cup undiluted lilikoi (Passion Fruit) juice 3 "scoops" sugar (taste it as you go) 2 qts water More Hawaiian recipes in Spring Cookbook.

~MarciaH Tue, Aug 24, 1999 (23:28) #32

~MarciaH Tue, Aug 24, 1999 (23:29) #33

OOps - that belongs on the cookbook page