Grapes
I know I said in the last post that I would concentrate on the book but I didn’t want to leave this seasonal recipe until next year. This time of the year the grapes are very cheap so apart from making moustalevria, you can make it into fruit preserve and use it in lots of [...]
Many people shudder at the thought of cooking or eating liver but in Greece we eat it a lot. I love liver, especially, chicken livers, however, I don’t cook it very often as chicken giblets are high in cholesterol and only cook it two or three times a year, mostly during Easter. Before cooking it, [...]
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One of September’s grapes is called fraoula, which means strawberry. I do not know why it is called strawberry but I suppose it could be because of its colour or taste. We usually don’t eat grapes except for the seedless sultana grapes but for some unknown reason when I saw them at the [...]
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