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Bunches of finger bananas on the trees
Eleuthera memories. Sunday August 22 2004.
Arriving in the Bahamas in 2001 after 21 years in London I could never understand it when family islanders referred to Nassau as ‘the big smoke’. Now I do. The city and all its stresses seems a lifetime away already. The most challenging thing I’ve had lately is keeping up with recipes for all the various fruits and saladings we grow. That, and making pints of jam and chutney with no scales to weigh anything and very few jam jars (luckily we found several on the beach. I hope that the boiling water got the salt and sand out, otherwise there will be an extra crunch to the mango chutney).
This farm really is a Garden of Eden. Along the with the rows of arugula, spinach, mixed salad leaves and watercress which Ian has planted for us and which is so plentiful we end up giving bags of it away we have so much more (one of my regular recipients just gave me (more) mangoes and a bag of key limes in return so the Key Lime Pie (non dairy version as I’ve given up dairy) is cooking as I type. We have fantastic fresh herbs, particularly basil, mint, rosemary and coriander. There are beds of garlic chives (like large spring onions), allspice bushes and hundreds of Noni trees (I’m drinking the juice daily, it is totally disgusting but it has had a noticeable improvement on my energy levels). (more…)
