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Date: 15 Aug 2024

What to do when you have too much of Jackfruit: make Jackfruit Apple Marmalade!

What to do when you have too much of Jackfruit: make Jackfruit Apple Marmalade!
🍈 What to do when you have too much of Jackfruit: make Jackfruit Apple Marmalade!

🍴 Jackfruit is delicious exotic treat, we are waiting so many months for it to ripen, but when when we finally have it - it's more than we can eat! Jackfruit is the biggest fruit grown on a tree, and even with one fruit crop you will have enough for both eating fresh and cooking!

🍎 Jackfruit Apple Marmalade


  • ✔️ Ripe jackfruit - 2 cups sliced arils
  • ✔️ Apple pulp - 1 cup
  • ✔️ Sugar - 3 cups


🍐 Cut the Jackfruit arils and remove the seeds. Finely slice the arils. Mix with apple pulp and cook until mixture thickens and marmalade sets. Pour into sterilized jars and seal.

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Date: 17 Aug 2024

How to make an improved Avocado sandwich

How to make an improved Avocado sandwich
How to make an improved Avocado sandwich.

  • 💚 Ingredients
    :

  • · 1 ripe avocado
  • · 2 slices of your favorite bread (whole grain, sourdough, etc.)
  • · 1 small tomato, sliced
  • · 1/4 red onion, thinly sliced
  • · A handful of fresh spinach or arugula
  • · 1-2 tablespoons of hummus or mayonnaise
  • · Salt and pepper to taste
  • · Optional: A squeeze of lemon juice, red pepper flakes, or a fried egg


💚 Instructions:

  • · Toast the slices of bread until they're golden and crispy.
  • · Cut the avocado in half, remove the pit, and scoop the flesh into a bowl. You can either slice it or mash it with a fork until smooth, then season with salt, pepper, and a squeeze of lemon juice if desired.
  • · Spread hummus or mayonnaise on one slice of the toasted bread.
  • · Layer the avocado, sliced tomato, red onion, and fresh spinach or arugula.
  • · Top with the second slice of bread (optional).
  • · Cut the sandwich in half and serve immediately.


🍿 Enjoy!

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Date: 20 Aug 2024

How to make an exotic treat: Barbados Cherry Jelly

How to make an exotic treat: Barbados Cherry Jelly
🍒 How to make an exotic treat: Barbados Cherry Jelly

Barbados Cherry is a vigorous grower that starts producing right away, and by the second year you have so much fruit that you don't know what to do with it - you can eat only so much fruit out of hand! Earlier we shared a recipe of delicious Barbados Cherry Juice drink. The juice tastes very similar to Guava juice: it is very aromatic and tasty, and has a beautiful Baby-pink color. The Jelly recipe is even more exotic teat!

🎀 Barbados Cherry Jelly

  • ✔️ 4 cups cherry juice
  • ✔️ 5 cups sugar
  • ✔️ 1 package dry pectin
  • ✔️ 2 tbsp lemon juice

  • 🍷To fully ripen cherries, place them in plastic container, cover and leave overnight. Cherries will be dark, rich red color the next day.

  • 🍷To make juice: Place cherries in a pan, cover with water, bring to boil. Crush cherries and simmer for a few minutes. Strain.

  • 🍷Add pectin and bring to a boil again. Add sugar and lemon juice and boil for 1 minute. Remove from heat and skim off foam. Pour into sterilized glass and seal.


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🛒 Order Barbados Cherry Tree

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Date: 25 Aug 2024

How to make a jam with Surinam Cherry

How to make a jam with Surinam Cherry
🍒 How to make a jam with Surinam Cherry

Surinam Cherry (Eugenia uniflora), often used as a hedge in Southern landscapes, also has a tasty fruit with a unique flavore. The black-fruit variety Lolita is especially valuable - the fruit is large, dark red to almost black, very juicy and sweet. It fruits profusely and there will be enough fruit for preserves too!

🎀 Surinam Cherry Jam

  • ✔️ 4 cups seeded Surinam Cherries
  • ✔️ 2 cups sugar
  • ✔️ 1 cup water


🍷Combine the sugar and water, bring to boil and add cherries. Cook slowly for 20 to 25 min until the mixture thickens slightly. Pour into sterilized jars and seal.

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Date: 9 Sep 2024

How to make a Classic Margarita:

How to make a Classic Margarita:
🕺 "Take life with a pinch of salt, a shot of tequila, and a wedge of lime so nothing at all but take your time." - John Walter Bratton

🍾 How to make a Classic Margarita:



2 oz tequila
  1. oz lime juice
    1 oz triple sec

  2. Salt for rimming the glass
    Lime wedge for garnish
    Shake the tequila, lime juice, and triple sec with ice, then strain into a salt-rimmed glass filled with ice. Garnish with a lime wedge and enjoy!

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