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, 5 April 2014

Friends

Last weekend, I decided to look through my facebok page to see if I should delete some names, as a sort of tidying up. My facebook friends...

Sunday, 30 March 2014

The plastic ball (Το τόπι)

Tonight's vote in Parliament on the multi-bill was procedurally postponed by SYRIZA's censure motion, which was rejected. A long ...

Saturday, 29 March 2014

The week in food

I am too busy to write, so I'll just post photos of last week's delicious food in my home. Mother-we-love-you makaronada: Orga...

Saturday, 22 March 2014

Busy life

As I am so terribly busy these days, doing work that I have created myself, I'll keep this post as short as a blip - check out my phot...

Monday, 17 March 2014

Neo-immigrant (Νεο-μετανάστης)

The UK recently announced a rise of more than 30% in migration to the UK in the last year , up to September 2013: Not sustainable, not abso...

Friday, 14 March 2014

Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides (Μίντλσεξ - Τζέφρι Ευγενίδης)

Middlesex had been lying on my bookshelf for a while before I plucked up the courage to pick it up and read it. I'd bought it at a sec...

Wednesday, 12 March 2014

Spanakopita pancake-omelette

I felt a tinge of horror as I read the T-shirt logo: SAVEFOOD , with links to the websites of Boroume (= we can) of Kalyteri Zoi (= bette...

Friday, 7 March 2014

Nostalgia (Νοσταλγία)

On Clean Monday, my husband bought the lagana bread for the meal I had prepared which we were going to eat with our friends. He bought 4 la...

Monday, 3 March 2014

Cooking for love - Clean Monday 2014 (Σαρακοστιανά)

In Greece, the start of Great Lent - known as Kathara Deftera (Clean Monday) - is one of those times when feasting is all about being a s...

Sunday, 2 March 2014

Chicken soup with broccoli (Κοτόσουπα με μπρόκολο)

Yes, broccoli again. I've uprooted all our broccoli plants, but I still have a freezer-shelf full of the stuff. It has occurred to me t...

Wednesday, 26 February 2014

Broccoli falafel

Inspired by a recipe for cauliflower fritters, I decided to make something similar using broccoli instead, because we still have broccoli i...

Friday, 21 February 2014

Perek (Περέκ)

I recently came across a recipe that uses some kind of pre-cooked filo pastry , called perek. Perek is a kind of filo pastry made only from...

Monday, 17 February 2014

Black-eyed beans with greens

We've had gorgeous weather in the last week. The spinach is now growing really fast, together with the chard and wild greens - time to ...

Monday, 10 February 2014

Authentic Greek products

There's a lot of talk these days about the labelling of food, especially concerning fake labels on processed food. This hardly worries ...

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