Olives
One of my favourite breads is olive bread. I have lots of recipes on my blog but this time I made it quite different. Now that we are fasting, it’s perfect for any time of the day, for breakfast, as a snack but also in the evening I don’t like eating cooked food, so a [...]
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Lagana is a delicious flatbread which is usually baked on the first day of Lent of the Orthodox Easter. This year I wanted to make something different from the classic Lagana so I made it with olives and rosemary. I prepared the dough it from the previous day so that I could bake it early [...]
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Last Saturday 40 Greek Food Bloggers were invited to the Factory of Elais for a tour and familiarization regarding the production and qualities of good olive oil. Arriving there we were pleasantly surprised by the graffiti on the exterior walls which depicted scenes of olive oil production. We passed inside the factory.. .. and [...]
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Laconia is a prefecture in Greece, with Sparta its administrative capital. It is bounded by Mount Taygetus, to the west of Sparta, which is the highest mountain range of Peloponese (2.407 meters) and with the Parnon mountains to the northeast (1.961 meters), to the west with Messenia, and to the North with Arcadia. Among the [...]
Continue reading about Lakonia and Pasta Elias (Olive paste)
Elies Tsakistes, (pronounced EliėssTsakistėss)arecrushedgreenoliveswhich are harvested when green. Green olives are usually sold ready to be eaten but if you produce olives and want to make them from scratch, there is a procedure to follow in order that the olives become edible. First of all you have to crack the olives and put them in [...]
Continue reading about Elies Tsakistes the way we eat them in Cyprus
Yesterday when I visited Kalyn’s Blog I saw that she had posted about an American Greek Salad. When I read some of the comments, I saw that people were talking about their experience of Greek Salads, as they were expecting a salad with tomato, cucumber, feta, onion, oregano and Kalamata Olives. Some said their salad [...]
For those who are fasting for Greek lent a variety of different food is necessary. Do you know what they used to have for breakfast some generations back? Bread and olives and that kept them strong and healthy to work all day in the fields. However, how tasteful the olives may be we never eat [...]
Continue reading about Eliopita, Eliotes or Eliopitakia (Cypriot olive pies)
Some days back I wrote about Kalamata Olives and how to brine them and I realized that I still have plenty of olives left from last year. There was no way I would let these homegrown gourmet in the cupboard any more. I decided that they should be consumed soon so right after posting for [...]
Eles Kalamon (mostly known as Kalamata olives abroad), is a supreme varietyof edible olives which are cultivated mainly in the Messinia (Kalamata) and Lakonia (Sparta) districts and in the wide area of Agrinion as well. The olive fruit is collected when it ripens from mid November till mid January. After the processing procedure (carving, salt solution, vinegar) we get [...]
