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The flavours of our childhood As the weather here in Greece is getting warmer and the days become brighter, my friends and I started having our Sunday gatherings in yards and balconies. There’s nothing like talking to your friends while having a soft drink in a yard full of flowers; listening to the birds singing… […]

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I really don’t know why I love this picture so much…. It was taken during an afternoon walk, when Christos and I were exploring an abandoned garden – one of the so many that can be seen inside traditional island settlements. This old carved wooden door has probably been lying there on its green mattress […]

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  • Simone Hatzipiera02/04/2012 - 12:26 pm

    Closed doors with locks & padlocks & crossbars…
    …imagination is always the KeyReplyCancel

Revithia Fournou (Wood-fired oven baked chickpeas) Made by Mr. Spyros Tsigonias This is a post about the day that my uncle Spyros invited us to his house in the country, to show us how he cooks a typical and loved recipe of the Aegean islands that he masters very well: Revithia (chickpeas) baked in a […]

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  • ELINAGR29/03/2012 - 10:00 pm

    Your description awakes my senses!!! Feels like I was there with you!!I can smell all the aromas and feel the taste of the delicious revithia!!!ReplyCancel

A story and a recipe… The 25th of March is a double celebration day in Greece. It is the anniversary of the day that the Greeks-under the motto Freedom or Death- started their revolution against the Turkish occupation in 1821, that led to their indepenence. It is also a religious celebration of the Evangelismos tis […]

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  • Paul Beard30/11/2015 - 6:53 pm

    Lovely website !!ReplyCancel

  • Fried Mussels Skewers21/02/2018 - 3:06 pm

    […] You can accompany the mussels with a rich garlicky skordalia. You can see a delicious skordalia and a batter variation here. […]ReplyCancel