Ι wish to thank you all for your lovely messages, either private, here or at facebook. Although I still need some time to grieve, I want to share the following post with you in memory of my late brother. The funeral will be tomorrow at Sydney, Australia.
It will take some time until I feel like [...]
Today my beloved brother passed away and I shall be away from blogging indefinitely.
I wish to thank you in advance for any messages you leave but will be unable to respond.
Ivy
My favourite eggplants until now were «tsakonikes» which I thought were the only ones which were sweet. I avoided cooking with the big round purple ones, as I heard that they were bitter. I’ve been seeing white eggplants at the market place for a long time but had never tried them until recently. When [...]
Continue reading about Melintzanes Santorinis (White eggplants from Santorini)
June is almost over and I need some holidays. We haven’t yet decided when and where to go this year but it will be some time in July and somewhere in Greece.
Although our holidays will just be for a few days, I want to focus on a few other matters I need to finish, so [...]
One of my favourite summer dishes is fasolakia yahni, a traditional dish with grean beans, which is easy, tasty, cheap and healthy. Yahni is the method of cooking and is similar to a stew or ragout.
In Greece we get two types of green beans. Barbounia, which are flat and tsaoulia, which are round. [...]
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Piperies Florinis are red long sweet peppers, named after the prefecture of Florina, in Norther Greece, where they are produced.
I read in the site of a local producer that these red sweet peppers have been growing in Florina for centuries and date back to antiquity. They were probably brought back to Macedonia from [...]
Continue reading about No knead Ciabatta Bread and Piperies Florinis Dip (Red Sweet Peppers)
Two friends from Romania have passed these great Awards to me and I am truly honoured.
Elena, of Bucataria Elenei, has passed this wonderful award. Thank you Elena.
Alison, of Alison’s Trials, has passed the above award as well as this one. Thank you Alison.
Both Awards go to all my blogging [...]
You’ve heard me talking about the Mediterranean Diet many times.
For those of you who are not familiar with this diet, this is the diet followed by the countries of Southern Europe, but I am writing about the Greek Mediterranean diet, with emphasis to the Cretan diet.
The Mediterranean Diet, as it is called, actually is not [...]
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The 23rd April is the memorial day of St. George. My eldest son is named George and today is a day of celebration.
St. George (one of my first icons)
I’ve been preparing a few things today and tomorrow I will be very busy cooking most of the day as we will be celebrating it tomorrow. [...]
I’ve already spoken about pasto which is cured pork meat which is smoked. However, after the meat is cured and smoked it has to be cooked and preserved in olive oil. This is an old method which they used when there were no refrigerators but it is still used as it adds flavour to [...]
Continue reading about Pasto Lakonias (Smoked Pork) and an Omelette
