http://thefroth.com/food Mon, 26 May 2008 22:26:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en         Friends from abroad often ask me how we drink ouzo.  Many think it's a long drink to be taken with peanuts like some pubs serve beer. But that's not the case at all. Both ouzo and tsipouro are meant to be accompanied by food. Usually, that's not a big portion, ... http://thefroth.com/food/2008/05/26/what-to-eat-with-ouzo/ Tsoureki (sweet bread) Greek Easter is full of drama and the food follows in the same line. Throughout the Holy Week, we are supposed to abstain from meat and dairy and on Good Friday we don't even have olive oil (other oils are ok although many older people just eat soups ... http://thefroth.com/food/2008/04/29/greek-easter-food/ I found this Greek, traditionally made pasta and I am a sucker for nice packaging so I bought it. I also thought, let's try it and see if we like it for the deli. I decided to prepare it with aubergines, zucchini and feta cheese. It's not a fancy recipe, ... http://thefroth.com/food/2008/04/17/campanelle-with-aubergines-zucchini-and-feta/ This was another one of those days when you don't have time to go shopping and have to make do with whatever there is in the fridge. It was my son's birthday so I had to make the things he like best, which is soya kebabs and chips. Peas and ... http://thefroth.com/food/2008/04/07/peas-with-everything/ Cinammon and Clove restaurant Zagoria villages On the second day of our visit to Ioannina, our friends took us to Vitsa, a nearby village that belongs to the Zagoria villages complex. The way I am saying it, it sounds as if they are not real villages but vacation places built like villages, ... http://thefroth.com/food/2008/03/31/food-in-ioannina/   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 ... http://thefroth.com/food/2006/12/12/carrot-soup/ "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 ... http://thefroth.com/food/2006/09/28/apple-salad-with-beet/ “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 ... http://thefroth.com/food/2006/09/10/comfort-me-with-apples/ 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 ... http://thefroth.com/food/2006/08/05/haloumi-and-grape-salad/ 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 ... http://thefroth.com/food/2006/07/05/greek-for-beginners-dakos-salad/