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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Monday, 18 November 2013

Dakos in a jar - and a giveaway (Ντάκος σε βαζάκι)

Giveaway! To be in the draw, leave a comment on this post. Dakos is the now famously healthy Cretan snack made of paximadi (hard barley ...

Sunday, 17 November 2013

All things pass (Όλα περνάνε)

While clearing out my desk recently, I came across a paper issue of locavores.gr , a local food site. The May 2013 issue contained a poem b...

Saturday, 16 November 2013

Wet

1.30pm, today ©All Rights Reserved/Organically cooked. No part of this blog may be reproduced and/or copied by any means without prio...

Friday, 15 November 2013

Spanakopita (Σπανακόπιτα)

Making a Greek pita is, for me, a mindless task. Rolling out pastry is not a mental chore, it's a physical one. So while I'm rollin...

Thursday, 14 November 2013

Splinogardoumo - spleen sausage (Σπληνογάρδουμο)

I recently saw a photo of a dish that I have not enjoyed in a long time... not for at least 15 years. It made me realise that I would no lo...

Wednesday, 13 November 2013

You could be anywhere

Chocolate flakes, grated coconut and vanilla pods from Madagascar, Ground hazelnuts, sliced blanched almonds and vanilla-flavoured sugar, ...

Tuesday, 12 November 2013

Donuts (Ντόνατς)

Friday is usually souvlaki night in our house. I know that sounds very western, having a 'junk food night'; I like to refer to it i...

Monday, 11 November 2013

Ajvar - Eggplant and pepper sauce (Αϊβάρ)

Sorry, folk, I don't know where the photos went - I had borrowed them from the web, and they seem to have been taken down since I used ...

Sunday, 10 November 2013

Bottleneck

Last Friday, I took the regular route to go home from work, via a bottleneck two-way carriage road where cars are sometimes parked on the f...

Saturday, 9 November 2013

Silent beauty (Αμίλιτη ομορφιά)

Last weekend was a busy one for us, as we had to clear the summer garden of the old crops which were now not producing in good form since t...

Friday, 8 November 2013

Pressed for time

What's the moral of the story? Scroll below if you want to skip the details. The children are growing up now, and I am finding that I...

Thursday, 7 November 2013

Itinerant (Επαίτης)

Last Saturday morning, I came across this array of people in the town. Once you move past the Agora in the town centre (where all dista...

Wednesday, 6 November 2013

BOGOFs (2 + 2 δώρο)

Buy 2 packets of pasta, get 2 packets free, the special read above a supermarket shelf. Not the standard buy-1-get-1-free special, but pret...

Tuesday, 5 November 2013

Peppers (Πιπεριές)

Peppers are great in the freezer: you can freeze them whole (especially good if they are hot small peppers like chilis - they slice well to...

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