Greek salad, a staple at my mum’s house: lots of onion, for extra fresh kisses.
Gemista: This means, stuffed peppers and tomatoes. My mum makes the best, although some people insist their mums make the best. Do not believe these people.
My mum cooks a lot. Now that our son is spending his summer holidays with her, we visit every Sunday and she prepares lunch for us. When she serves us our lunch, she goes back to the kitchen and starts making a fruit salad. So that not a single minute between courses is lost. Because if a minute without eating goes by, if you put your fork down, you might just lose your appetite. After the fruit salad, there is ice-cream. And then, there is coffee. I don’t know what comes next. We usually pass out at that stage. Here are some photos from when I was still conscious.
Fruit salad for the first dessert course. You thought dessert was the third course. Noooo. Dessert is a meal on its own at my mum’s. You have the first dessert course, in this case the fruit salad, and then the second dessert course, in this case, some ice cream. A third course would be some coffee, or juice, or an alcoholic drink, but most people die before this happens.
I met Brad Pitt again today. I hope you have been reading this blog for some time now, so you know I am not crazy, when I say “I met Brad Pitt again today”. We agreed on 3 articles, one of them being recipes (using their company’s honey). He is a nice guy. As I was leaving he gave me a goodies bag. Why had no one introduced me to their white chocolate milk bath before? You just want to eat the bath water. It smells like heaven and angels and clean babies. Later, in the purgatory that my taxi was, I used it to protect my nose from the smelly driver.
Second dessert course: Ice cream. It just fills that void in your stomach and soul.
Is it over yet?
It is a rainy day, so M and I thought it would be good to see a dvd. And we got Elizabethtown. Consider this post a public service. A post to protect the innocent. Don’t see Elizabethtown. It’s the worst movie ever. It is harmful to the eyes. And what the hell is Legolas doing in a road movie that also deals with the themes of parental loss, futuristic trainers and suicide by bicycle? Cameron Crowe has a lot to answer for. But not before he throws away the hallucinogenics.
July 3rd, 2006 at 11:35 am
YUMMMMMMMYYYY!!!
I want to work for a magazine!! A fashion magazine were they get those free samples and clothes heheheh 
Food porn alert!!! No comments on the food, it’s all delicious!
I can’t believe your Brad Pitt is a nice guy and even gave you a goodies bag!! How lucky is that?
Thank you for the warning, since Elizabethtown was on my wishlist - not anymore. I don’t like the actor in it, so better this way.
July 3rd, 2006 at 12:03 pm
Actually, Elizabethtown was not just a bad movie. It was many bad movies all at once. A bad road movie, a bad travel documentary, a bad love story, a bad family movie, a bad movie about corporate politics and ethics. And frankly, compared to Kirsten Dunst, Legolas, sorry, Orlando Bloom, was the 8th wonder of the world of acting. And he was pretty bad too.
July 3rd, 2006 at 1:22 pm
is it a painful death (death from tomatos)?
July 3rd, 2006 at 2:09 pm
That salad looks very yummy and healthy. Onions are good, though I like them caramelized with liver….
July 3rd, 2006 at 2:46 pm
Death by food is a good way to die, I say. But no onions please!
July 3rd, 2006 at 2:49 pm
I make stuffed peppers-filled with rice and hamburger. Is that sort of similar to what you use? I have never heard of stuffing tomatoes, but it sounds delicious!
July 3rd, 2006 at 4:24 pm
I want to eat at your Mum’s! Three course desserts are right up my alley!
July 3rd, 2006 at 4:49 pm
Everything looks wonderful but all I need is a slab of feta cheese with a few crackers and I would be so happy.
Hugs,
Connie
July 3rd, 2006 at 5:56 pm
Speaking of greek salad and feta cheese..I was thinking of you today when I bought my feta at the grocery store and smiled to myself..lol
July 3rd, 2006 at 6:03 pm
Everything looks wonderful; so wonderful I can taste it!
Where can we buy the chocolate bubbles?
Your son is so very lucky to ahve your mama to cook for him.
Sweet dreams, friend. xo
July 3rd, 2006 at 6:14 pm
The worst thing about Elizabethtown was that it was by the usually wonderful Cameron Crowe. I expected soooo much more from him! Poop!
July 3rd, 2006 at 6:17 pm
There is a distinct lack of cheese on toast from your diet.
July 3rd, 2006 at 6:59 pm
my mom likes to cook and feed people. I always feel over stuffed leaving there.
And yes Dessert is a must at her house.
July 3rd, 2006 at 9:02 pm
Ah, I think the piccies of the food are so wonderful - and to me they’re extra lovely because I bet your mom prepared every bit of that with much love. I bet they love having your son there with them.
And… re:Elizabethtown - I am SO with you on that… avoid it at all cost, all cost I say!
July 3rd, 2006 at 11:49 pm
mmmmmmmmm stuffed peh perrrrrrrrrs
July 4th, 2006 at 6:34 pm
Chloe, I love reading your blog, and your pornographic food pictures are great, (I still don’t believe you actually take them but then again, I do have high opinions of you) it’s just that I’m worried that I will flood my basement with saliva if I visit here too often. We’re already at knee level here.
July 4th, 2006 at 7:00 pm
i am coming to your moms house first! forget plaka and the parthenon, i want to eat some of those stuffed tomatoes.
note to self- dont rent elizabethtown.
July 4th, 2006 at 7:19 pm
If I was still in the UK, I would be planning my summer holidays to Greece… I am sad! And looking at all that delicious food has made my mouth water… yummmm! I could die a happy woman at your mom’s!
July 5th, 2006 at 1:15 am
Your photos always make the food look so gorgeous Chloe.
July 5th, 2006 at 1:45 am
i won’t say her name -
the ACTRESS in that movie
was wretched….absolutely
wretched….
the film was confused….
the director obviously had
just had lunch at your mum’s
and was hallucinating….
(in a good way of course but
simply unable to concentrate on
the film)
July 5th, 2006 at 3:55 am
I love your new layout!!!!!
July 5th, 2006 at 4:18 am
Πείνασα….:-)
Σου Îχω μια εÏώτηση στο blog μου, αν δεν σου κάνει κόπο θα ήθελα να ξÎÏω την άποψή σου
Φιλιά και την καλημÎÏα μου γλυκιά Chloe
http://vistam.blogspot.com/2006/07/blog-post_05.html
July 5th, 2006 at 5:37 am
You know it really isn’t fair to post those pictures when I’m sitting at work, famished and thirsty. Death by Greek cuisine is official the best way to go.
July 5th, 2006 at 8:24 am
Oh I am sooo hungry after reading this I think I’ll have to go visit MY Mom she always has food…
July 5th, 2006 at 9:08 am
Food, glorious food! You have inspired me…I’m leaving this internet cafe right now and getting myself a delicious lunch.
I thank you and my stomach thanks you!
July 5th, 2006 at 11:30 am
Is that a short black? Or just a closeup of a regular coffee?
Mmmmmm I love short blacks. I might just go make one now. Mmmmm.
July 5th, 2006 at 7:32 pm
Oh wow! Do you include your Mum’s cooking and/or yours on the Greek tour? This looks amazing!
July 5th, 2006 at 8:37 pm
kamia fora erxomai sta petaxta kai blepo ta posts sou (laxtarista laxtarista) kai panta ma panta xamogelo me to kefi kai ti leptomereia pou kaneis kathe ti
apopse eipa na sou po ki ena geis
(edo trigiro eimai de xanomaste e?)
July 6th, 2006 at 1:01 pm
I’m comin over.
Reading this made me sooooo hungry, even though I already was.
Hmmm… I know that actually makes no sense at all.
I want a Mum like yours.
July 7th, 2006 at 12:50 am
how do you drink your coffee? cream sugar? i think this is important for friends to know about each other, in case i ever fix you coffee, i will know what to do
July 8th, 2006 at 1:19 pm
I think I just gained all my weight back! yummy
July 10th, 2006 at 6:05 am
I love the fruits photos, Chloe! You’re so talented! xx
August 6th, 2006 at 7:46 pm
Here are some links that I believe will be interested