![]() I cannot believe how good this cashew cream stuff is. I used my only dairy and gluten-free crust recipe and luckily the coconut flavour is perfect with the lilikoi. I wanted to make something inspired by these tiny sloppy gluten-free guava and cream cheese tarts, but my mother cannot eat gluten or dairy. Look for the little, wrinkly, ugly, sweet ones. You eat the sweet tart pulp, seeds and all. The outside is a tough thick skin that encloses an orange pulp full of black seeds. A ripe passionfruit will perfume your entire kitchen with the most intoxicating smell. If you are lucky enough to live in a place where passionfruit grows, please eat as many of them as you can. Having grown up eating tropical fruit on a tropical island, I am consistently horrified by the cost and quality of tropical fruit on the mainland. ![]() apparently, the Goya brand frozen pulp is easier to find and cheaper. I have never seen passionfruit in New York, but a quick internet search reveals that they can sometimes be found in Chinese, Caribbean, Latin and super expensive gourmet markets. More on this when my home city thaws out. Pisco, a brandy made of muscat grapes, is Chile’s national drink and it is delicious. You can also sometimes get fresh passionfruit juice with Pisco. In Chile, Passionfruit is called Maracuya and it is a standard flavour at the many artisanal ice cream shops. Why did I spend all of my highschool years doing theater in a darkened room? Why did I stop going to the beach just because of my big white thighs? Why didn’t I get my daddy to teach me how to sail? Why did I not eat fresh lilikoi as much as humanly possible? One more regret to add to the heap of regrets about my years spent in tropical paradise. In retrospect, I cannot understand why I did not eat more of it when I lived there. ![]() While I was on Maui, I became obsessed with eating Lilikoi (passionfruit). I just managed to avoid a full month of New York winter!!! Life is good! There is no way to point this out without gloating, so I’m just going to embrace it.
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