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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Thursday, 24 October 2013

Pomegranates (Ρόδια)

After the children had left for school, after she had finished her coffee, and after she had had the first cigarette of the day, Varvara to...

Wednesday, 23 October 2013

The remains of the day (Τα απομεινάρια μιας μέρας)

Yesterday's lunch ... ... yielded these leftovers ... ... which went into a baked macaroni dish. The remains of our d...

Tuesday, 22 October 2013

Food bank - Community grocery (Δημοτικό παντωπολείο)

At the first parent-teacher meeting at the junior high school, the first person to take the floor was a local town councillor, who explaine...

Monday, 21 October 2013

Wheat berry salad (Σαλάτα με στάρι)

My son has recently become a mature eater: he is now willing to try anything, and even though he won't eat everything, he will still at...

Sunday, 20 October 2013

Past experiences (Εμπειρίες από το παρελθόν)

In some people's minds, yesterday's post showed me up to be racist and prejudiced against Roma, which is, of course, not what I wa...

Saturday, 19 October 2013

Roma (Ρομά)

Before the sensible polite hard-working very poor Albanian couple rented my home and made it theirs, I had a Roma family living in it. When...

Friday, 18 October 2013

Soul (Ψυχή)

How do you view your soul? Is it confined in a space? Or is it a floating mass that you pull along wherever you move? A Greek filmm...

Thursday, 17 October 2013

Discounted items

When the kids go on school trips, I buy them packaged food because it's easy to carry. This is the closest we get to expired food sol...

Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Dinner

Last night's dinner: Fasolada and a slice of bread, with some white wine. I never eat my bean soups with a spoon. I prefer the fo...

Tuesday, 15 October 2013

Grape must (Μούστος)

Must ( μούστος in Greek) is what wine is called before it is turned into wine. Harvesting the grapes from the vine, transportin...

Monday, 14 October 2013

Red, blue and purple food: berry sauce for meat and fish

A freind of mine recently asked me where I found the berries I used to make chocllate berry pots. She likes red, blue and black berries, li...

Sunday, 13 October 2013

The Big One

I was having a mother and daughter day yesterday, as my son was away all day playing competition sport. It was a chance for us to indulge i...

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