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Carrot soup

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

To dream of carrots, portends prosperity and health. For a young woman to eat them, denotes that she will contract an early marriage and be the mother of several hardy children. 10 000 Dream Interpretations, by Gustavus Hindman Miller One of the main reasons I love autumn is because I can serve soup, especially carrot [...]

Apple salad with beet

Thursday, September 28, 2006

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"The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious." Tom Robbins Why is it that when people [...]

Comfort me with apples

Sunday, September 10, 2006

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“If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.” Dr. Carl Sagan I found the basis for this easy, yum and all round nice recipe in Cooking Light. I’ve had a difficult week both on the work as well as on the insomnia front, so I wasn’t going [...]

Haloumi and grape salad

Saturday, August 5, 2006

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It is boiling hot in Athens. I cannot bear to be in the kitchen, at least not too far from the fridge where it is cool. So, no cooking. We have to make do with salads and fruit and cheese. Really, I have never asked you: Do you like mixing fruit and vegetables? Or are [...]

Greek for beginners: Dakos salad

Wednesday, July 5, 2006

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Greek salads do not come any easier or simpler than this one. And to be honest this is a Cretan salad, and you do know that the people of Crete are among the healthiest on the planet. Their secret is lots and lots of extra virgin olive oil. This is my version of dakos and [...]

A watermelon sun

Wednesday, July 5, 2006

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"Watermelon — it’s a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face." Enrico Caruso The gypsies would drive from neighbourhood to neighbourhood in their open trucks and sell watermelons, just a few years ago in Athens. I think they still do it in rural areas. And in the early afternoon, you’d hear their [...]

Just eat it, don’t make me repeat it

Wednesday, July 5, 2006

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I can live on salads, fruit and juices for the whole duration of summer. In Greece, that’s about 5 months. Sometimes, I consider myself lucky that as a vegetarian, I live in a Mediterranean country where there are lots of vegetables and fruit, but when I am in a bad mood, I just miss the [...]

The aubergine poem

Thursday, May 25, 2006

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The aubergine libertine in his green limousine A libertine’s green limousine was lately seen in Saint Vereen. The libertine wore aubergine. In Saint Vereen they’re not so keen on aubergine. The party scene in Saint Vereen is all crepe-de-chine and gabardine, beauty queens and Charlie Sheen. The libertine in aubergine moves between these beauty queens: his [...]

Eating on Mountain Pilion

Thursday, May 25, 2006

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I have been neglecting this blog and neglecting cooking in general, but I haven’t neglected eating. I had my Easter Holiday on Mount. Pilion, in Makrinitsa village and the food our hosts -Kostas and Elena- prepared for us was delicious. [...]

Ravioli with asparagus

Thursday, April 20, 2006

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"Olive oil? Asparagus? If your mother wasn’t so fancy, we could shop at the gas station like normal people." Homer Simpson That’s a springtime classic. I should have made the ravioli myself. But I wanted this for a picnic and since it wouldn’t be served immediately and would be eaten cold, I thought “why [...]