Passion from the Golan
While the snow-capped peaks of Mount Hermon in the winter might make one think the Golan is incapable of growing tropical fruits, think again.
A short drive down from the heights of the rugged plateau takes you to the hot and humid fields on the eastern side of Lake Kinneret. It is here where mangoes and passion fruit grow, and grow in abundance that is.
I'm really blessed to live on a moshav where the farmers are truly connected - and committed - to the Holy Land. And even more blessed that the farmers occasionally bring back free pickings with them to the moshav!
In the past, we've received freshly picked apples and pears, but now the local mini-market on my moshav has passion fruits for the taking.
And that's quite nice, especially for someone like me who loves this exotic, tart fruit. But there's only so much passion fruit that one can eat, so thankfully my wife found a wonderful passion fruit cheese cake recipe on the Internet.
So good, that I've proclaimed it as the best cheese cake that I've ever tasted!!
In fact, she made it for a party last night and some folks on the moshav have already called her for the recipe. I'm not sure where she found it, but if anyone is interested, I'll ask her to post the link to it in the comments.
8 comments:
Post it, post it! You can never have too many cheesecake recipes, as far as I am concerned, and knowing Chave's baking and cooking skills, I am sure the cake was divine.
Can we have a pic?
passionate about the golan the cheese cake must be a must and ofcourse we are all looking forward to hearing how Chava made it. remeber to enjoy it -the fruit is very expensive to us mere mortals. Sometimes I wish I was a farmer working the land true to zionist principles. Us Israelis have become too materialistic a result of changing times. Have worked the land in the past it is hard but satisfying work....see your corn article
Ps u did not tell me if I could use your traffic light picture on my blog
I wouldn't put my life on the line for very many things, but I owuld for HaShem, Am Yisrael, my family, and good cheesecake! :) I love the blog, Shmuel! My wife and I are making aliyah soon and are debating whether to live in the picturesque-Golan, (but with significant security issues so close to Syria & hezbullah), or Jerusalem, (so expensive.) Anyway, I'll lonk our sites together and we'll visit often. L'shalom...DA
"so close to Syria" ? Golan is Syria, it is occupied territory that will return to Syria one day. Installing settlers everywhere will not resolve the problem and make the life of the thousands of trapped Arabs easier.
now that i've taseted it, i'm equally passionate about that cheesecake! that was some good stuff! way to go chave!
i better invite you guys down south more often. happy to spend some time with you. moadim l'simha and enjoy occupying passion fruit territory.
Here's the recipe folks.
http://recipes.epicurean.com/recipe/17508/passion-fruit-cheesecake.html
Enjoy,
Chave
Thanks for all the comments. It's nice to hear words of encouragement and even the one from Anonymous about the Golan not being part of Israel. The truth is that I've received these sort of comments before - see my comment to http://gogolan.blogspot.com/2007/07/wheres-root-beer.html, but now I'm getting tired of hearing comments like this.
As such, I've decided to monitor comments. For those who remember, this was how I did it when I started bloging.
In general, I'll try to publish comments from all viewpoints, but if it's a sweeping comment about the status of the Golan, please have some common sense and some accuracy in your words. For example, Anonymous says, "Installing settlers everywhere will not resolve the problem and make the life of the thousands of trapped Arabs easier." This is simply incorrect because:
A) Druze are not Arabs;
B) their lives are easier in Israel as opposed to Syria;
C) the Druze of the Golan can go back to Syria to study in Damascus University. And I read that this is for free and they can study anything they want; and
D) here in Israel the Druze enjoy a far better lifesyle. Although they wouldn't dare go on the record for saying it in public for fear that Syria would harm their loved ones living on the other side of the border.
So I hope I cleared that up.
Thanks,
Shmuel
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