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Obsessed like a fruit fly:  Surprising, white, pink and yellow mountain guava

6/26/2012

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This farm is full of highland guava trees.    The insects know about their little round fruits, but until this week, I really did not.  They grow at this elevation like weeds.    The bark is quite pretty but otherwise not much to recommend the tree.  The smell of the fruit is intoxicating and you can not miss that, but the flavor, at least off the tree, is a disappointment........ and then there are the worms.

This week, I learned how to capture the aroma of the skin in a delicious jelly and how to use the dense pulp to make a butter or paste.  The jelly is more delicious than strawberry jam it has a strawberry, pineapple almost rhubarb quality that captures the aroma you pick up when you walk past a tree with ripe fruit on the farm.  The aroma that drives the insects crazy.

The paste is the caramelized pulp and is better than fig paste with cheese.  Guavas have a fig quality to them.  Could think of them as poor mans figs.  Lots of little seeds, it just takes some coaxing to make them soft and get the caramel flavor out of them.    I am completely captivated by this little fruit.   Completely understand why this fruit is a fly and worm magnet. 

The other surprise is that not all mountain guava are the same.  They  all look the same initially and taste the same but actually there are white, pink and orange versions  of the fruit.  When you cook with them these different colors give you a palate to work with that adds to the fun of the process.  I will be making this stuff  until September when the season finishes.   This is a quintessential flavor of Boquete.   

Here are some pictures of the fruits.  The smell throughout was quite incredible and the end result very pleasing.   I was using white and yellow guava and so my finished result is somewhat orangey.  Next time, I am going to try the white mixed with pink,  that should be a very pretty color, I like pink!
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The heady exotic scent of guava on a coffee farm

9/10/2011

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People who were brought up in Boquete, they pluck the mountain guava from from trees and eat them like apples.  They smell the perfume and stop in their tracks looking for the tree close by.   They talk about guava jelly like we talk about black current jam in the UK or cranberry sauce in the US.

I have not been able to share this enthusiasm and find the guava experience highly over-rated.   The flavor and the smell never being enough to get over the fact that the guava plays host to unprecedented numbers of fruit flies and maggots.    

Today, my guava world was changed for ever.  I was introduced to a new variety we have planted on the farm.  The fruit looks like yellow globes and the smell is close to heaven on this earth.  The scent is more guava than guava.  A wonderful fragrant perfume with a flesh that tastes similar to passion fruit.

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Apparently, we need a couple of piglets on the coffee farm

8/12/2011

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This morning, I intercepted this wheel barrow on the way to the compost heap.   We have guava falling off the trees.  Apparently, we need a little piglet or two to eat these up as well as the spare plantains and bananas.   If I understood right, a piglet costs about $40 and in 8 months could be worth $300.  If true and if you can feed them from your farm scraps then this is a better business than coffee?
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