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Apple salad with beet

28. September 2006

"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 [...]

Haloumi and grape salad

5. August 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

5. July 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 [...]

Just eat it, don’t make me repeat it

5. July 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 [...]

Garlicky aubergine salad

28. February 2006

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?ubergine salad is very common in Greece and there are numerous versions of it. This doesn’t mean there is no room for one more version: mine. Blame it for losing your friends if you want, but you can’t blame it for being tasteless. I think it’s a great sandwich spread too, especially combined with mozzarella. [...]

“Whatever I found in the fridge” salad

28. February 2006

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In essence, this salad is made with whatever vegetables you may find in the fridge. The only thing to follow is to prepare a green base of -let’s say- spinach or rocket and add other vegetables that may be in season. I could add beets or even baked aubergine. What we cannot add is cabbage, [...]

Russian Salad with homemade mayonnaise

28. February 2006

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There is not just one Russian salad. We have an expression i n Greece, and use it when we want to say we made a mess of things: “It’s Russian salad”. So, maybe it means the Russian salad is everything mixed together without any particular order. Well, the idea is that we mix together boiled vegetables [...]