At first glance, choosing a recipe from the 703 pages of Vefa’s Kitchen could seem a bit daunting, so here are a couple of my favourites – just click on the links to get all the details. Finding that Vefa had included a recipe for Marathópites (Cretan Fennel Pies) vindicated my decision to buy yet another…
Tag: Vegetarian
An Island Lost (and ‘Proper Revithada’)
Last week, we lost ‘Isle of Olive’, one of the nicest Greek delis in London.
After 11 years of bringing the tastes of the Aegean to East London, they have had to throw in the towel….
Remembering ‘How To Eat’. Siege Soup
Is it just me, or is there something really odd about watching Masterchef at the moment? Don’t get me wrong – it’s a very welcome escape at this time of crisis… but in our ‘new reality’, it does all seem a bit ‘2019’. For starters (no pun intended) there’s an awful lot of hand-shaking and…
Inventions and Innovations – Kataifi Melitzanópita – Aubergine Kataifi
Forget splitting the atom or realising that the Earth wasn’t flat – who was the bright spark that invented bread? We all know about Einstein and Fleming and there are those who think that Steve Jobs and Tim Berners-Lee changed the development of Mankind – but who invented bread? I mean where would we be…
Not Woke – Just Fasting. Cheat’s Chickpeas – Revithátha Efkoli
Apologies, just in case anyone has noticed, for my almost Trappist silence over the last few months. It’s not because I have lost interest in blogging, simply I have spent the second half of 2018 ‘on the move’. Kouzina was, for most of that time, literally without a kouzina (it’s Greek for kitchen). It’s all…
Myth, Memory and a Good Tomato Sauce
You know how it is, you’re flicking through an old recipe book, a piece of paper drops out and it’s like looking through a window into the past. There it was, stuffed into the back of my ‘Good Housekeeping Cookery Book’, a list of our favourites dishes. Just married, my husband, Mihalis, and I had…
Easy food for changing places – Fassolákia Yahní – Green Bean Casserole
There hasn’t been a lot of cooking done in our house since my last post. Obviously, we’ve all been reeling from the massive events in this country but that hasn’t been the reason for the lack of culinary activity. The cause is much more practical and mundane – we’re moving house. After twenty two years of…
November Salad Days – Horiátiki Saláta Greek Salad
In much the same way as last year, November has found us in Athens again. After a few days of dappled, grey skies, the weather has reverted to type – the sky the deep azure of the Aegean, with a warmth reminiscent of late spring rather than early winter. Feeling blessed by this winter…
Benaki Museum Eats – Black Eye Beans with Chard
It is probably true to say that eating in museum or gallery cafés is, on the whole, a disappointment. At best, it can be glorified canteen food and at worst, it can be really bad canteen food. Things have improved in recent years, but it is hard to produce fresh, interesting food on that kind…
The Everyman Dish as Fusion Food – Fasoláda and Co
Every country has a foodstuff that is so popular that it becomes something close to a national dish. I suppose in Britain, or England at least, it would be fish and chips – although I have heard that Chicken Tikka Masala is gaining in the popularity stakes. America has the hamburger, Italy has pasta, Turkey,…
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