24 February 2013

Passionate about passionfruit

We are lucky to have two established passionfruit vines in the garden. Here is one of them:

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Have you ever seen passionfruit flowers? They are stunning:

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For ages the fruit that appeared stayed green:

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But recently they have started ripening and dropping off the vine. We'll go out each day and collect 5, 6 or 7 passionfruit! (Oh and our tomatoes are doing well too.)

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So what do I do with them?

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Slice them ...

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Scoop out the pulp ...

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And make delicious passionfruit tart and cordial. Mmmm, the taste of sunshine.

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