Rambai Fruit in April

Close up of the rambai fruit on the branch

The drooping rambai branches look spectacular.

These are the female trees which bear the fruit

Each rambai has three segments. The flesh clings to the seed.

Learn more about rambai at http://www.capetrib.com.au/rambai.htm

Preserving salaks

In January we took some salaks to David and Mala who run the Hot Wok Indonesian restaurant [now renamed to Indonesian Bistro]at Atherton on the Tablelands. Mala decided to preserve them and then over Easter visited us at Cape Tribulation and brought some preserved salaks for us to try.

Here is a sample. They have been cooked until tender - test with a fork - with cinnamon and cloves. It tasted a bit like stewed apple. She had frozen the salaks until she was ready to preserve them and this turned out to be a bad idea as the structure of the fruit broke down too much. So we know for the next crop. And we have found a local market for our salak fruit.

Fruit in Season for April

Here are some of the fruit around in April - from the left - Rollinia, Lime, Soursop,Yellow Mangosteen, Mamey Sapote,Salak and Rambutan