During my recent trip to Cyprus we took a trip to my brother in law’s village. On our way, we passed from my mother’s village which is called Kyvides and is on the road which leads to the “krassohoria” which is the wine producing area of Limassol.
The settlement of Pano Kyvides, according to [...]

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Ivy on October 5th, 2009

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 [...]

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Ivy on November 28th, 2008

I am having a hard time writing this recipe as I am not sure what the English word would be for psaronefri. I checked the word on the online translator and I got the translation of psaronefri as griskin.
Is it griskin?
Google searching the word griskin, I got this but in the instructions it speaks of [...]

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