Organically Greek

Greek identity with a difference, from the inside out and the outside in (formerly Organically Cooked - Linking Greek food with Greek identity: you eat what you are, or who you want to be)

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Saturday, 14 June 2008

Pickled capers (Κάπαρι τουρσί)

Caper bushes are especially pretty in spring when their impressive flowers are in bloom. They abound in olive groves, especially in patche...

Thursday, 12 June 2008

The Mediterranean diet is alive and well and living in Varipetro (Η σχολική εορτή)

Greek primary schools officially close for the summer on 15 June, which falls on Sunday this year, so children get two extra days to enjoy d...

Wednesday, 11 June 2008

Boiled snails (Χοχλιοί - σαλιγκάρια - βραστοί)

I'm a four-time godmother. My oldest godson is travelling with the Greek merchant navy while my youngest (who's taller than me) is p...

Monday, 9 June 2008

The 100-mile pie (Η πίτα των 100 μιλίων)

With the increasing interest in food sources, local diets, environmental awareness and the ever-increasing cost of living, more and more pe...

Friday, 6 June 2008

Home-made lemonade (Σπιτική λεμονάδα)

My aunt has just become a great-grandmother for the second time, to a baby boy living many miles away from her in New Zealand. The internet ...

Thursday, 5 June 2008

Offal (Τζιγέρι - Εντόσθια)

It's a load of old waffle that awful is OFFAL . It may not look good to treat it as food. But once you have cut it and floured it and fr...

Courgettes a la Bulgaria (Κολοκυθάκια α λα Βουλγαρία)

Aristotle wasn't feeling well one night, complaining of tummy ache. I usually ask my children to go to the toilet in such cases. This ti...

Wednesday, 4 June 2008

Amaranth - vlita - and black nightshade - stifno (Βλήτα και στίφνος)

This post is mentioned in the Wikipedia entry for Solanum nigrum (black nightshade) . One man's poison is another man's meat. A...

Tuesday, 3 June 2008

Regional cooking (Η τοπική κουζίνα)

Sometimes I wonder whether the neighbouring village is actually another country when I hear of the many different variations for making a pa...

Monday, 2 June 2008

Black forest chocolate and zucchini gateau (Κέικ σοκολάτας με κολοκύθι)

That river of zucchini is still flowing. The fridge has filled up with zucchini , there's zucchini on the kitchen work top, there's...

Sunday, 1 June 2008

Waves on the Rocks (Ραβδούχα)

If I could describe the island of Crete , I would say it looked like one big long sunbathing mermaid, whose body is divided into four uneven...

Edible flowers (Εδώδιμα λουλούδια)

By now, faithful readers of my blog will know that I have planted zucchini in the garden, picked and stored the zucchini flowers , turned t...

Saturday, 31 May 2008

'Gourmet' zucchini rissoles (Κολοκυθόκεφτέδες του καλοφαγά)

(What I am about to write is in no way meant to be taken literally - it is really a play on words, and is not meant to be a scathing attack...

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