Today I’m sharing the result of my happy experiment making Guava Cheesecake Bars. Fruit and cheesecakes are old friends; everything from blueberries, raspberries and strawberries to bananas, oranges, lemons, mangoes and kiwi have been incorporated into cheesecakes. In baking, guavas are usually incorporated in the form of jams, jellies or pastes. So I thought, “ Why not use fresh guava?”. Guava and chilli – naughty but nice Driving on holiday,…
My generation has climbed many a mango and guava tree. Scraped knees and elbows were easily forgotten while biting into tangy, raw guavas hastily wiped on dusty tee shirts and frocks. A sprinkling of salt on the hard, sour flesh gave us puckered lips amid noisy smacking of tongues. Sometimes if we got lucky, our haul would include more ripe fruits than raw ones. White or red inside with crunchy…