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.