November 2012
The Indoor Bush Food Bonanza
Yacon - Apple of the Earth ($12.90)
A relative of the Sunflower and native to the Andes and known as the Apple of the Earth which is an excellent description for this plant.
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There are some of our bush food plants that are well suited to growing as indoor plants. They are attractive plants to look at as well as being well suited to lower levels of light as they would normally experience in their rainforest setting. We have select four different bush foods and have a special offer just for you.
You can have one of each of these selections or choose four of the same plant if you prefer.
Walking stick palm
This delightful little palm with sweet edible fruits that are ripe in the summer.
Davidson Plum
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produces a fabulous sour fruit, it is too tart for most people straight off the tree but it makes superb jam.
Small-leaf Tamarind
Is actually an endangered tree in its natural range but thankfully it is widely cultivated. It is a beautiful tree that grows to about 10 - 12 m, although large specimens to 30m are known. The tasty tangy fruit is a refreshing treat eaten raw or it can be used creatively in chutneys and sauces.
Plum pines
Another beautiful looking native bush food. The purple fruits are actually the swollen seed stalk, they taste just like a plums with a slightly pine-like flavoured core. The fruits are produced on female trees so if you are growing for their fruits a planting of 2-3 trees will increase your chances of having both a male and a female tree.
Yacon - Like an Apple but grows like a Potato
The Yacon is an interesting relative of the sunflower. It is native to the Andes and is also
known as the Apple of the Earth which is an excellent description for this plant. Each year the plant produces many thick elongated tubers which have a moist crunchy texture and a delicious flavour, they are not as sweet as an apple, nor are they as starchy as a potato. The yacon is a versatile in the kitchen; it may be pealed and eaten raw, or sliced and used in stir fries and salads where its crisp 
texture and light sweet flavour can be best enjoyed. Yacons are easy to grow; they are hardy and will tolerate hot dry weather and poor soils without complaints. The tubers are harvested in late autumn/winter once the plant dies back, lift the tubers and them replant the small pink offsets for next year's crop. All the large sweet potato like tubers will be ready to eat. To give you the opportunity to try this fabulous root crop for yourself we are offering a 30% discount on our yacon plants during November. To receive your discount add the Yacon to your Basket then enter the code YAC30 into the Offer Section of our checkout.
Tangello Dessert Recipe
Thank you to Robert Bernard who sent me this recipe, I thought you may all like ot try this one out, I imagine it would be superb with other citrus fruits too such as lemons,limes and oranges.
Slice the top off a tangello and carefully scoop the fruit contents out. Force softened
vanilla ice-cream scoops back in to fill the skin completely, and push the top back onto the fruit and icecream, to stick it in place. Carefully place the fruits back into the freezer. Gradually the citrus character will infuse the icecream to give it a really unique delicate citrus flavour.
Serve directly as-is, in a bowl, or garnish with a leaf of mint. (The deep-frozen skin will quickly acquire an interesting frosty coating). Fabulous as a summer desert!
