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Vine harvest and wine juice in Greece

The Real Greek moussaka, their souvlaki and the gossip

Greek Easter, the Resurrection hymn and a soup with lamb intestines

Cooking for trouble (in a yummy way) - working with Unilever and OgilvyOne for Hellmann's

Greek Orthodox Lent menu: Going vegan(ish)

Social media baking: Lagana Bread

Tsiknopempti - the Greek BBQ Thursday and some survival tips

Lessons learned | Nigel Slater's Sea salt chocolate snaps

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Vine harvest and wine juice in Greece September 26, 2012 Vine harvest and wine juice in Greece Posted by Auntie Sofia at 11:17 No Responses Experiences, VIDEO RECIPES Tagged with: Atalanti, grape juice, grapes, Greece, moustos, vine harvest, wine making I don’t know if you’ve watched old films with vine harvests and wine juice making or wine making but they always seem to contain plucky villagers without shoes stepping on the grapes. That’s all very well and dandy but apparently it hardly ever happens any more. The team in Atalanti, Greece, went about finding out (…) Eat the lot	Chocolate truffles by Daphne May 24, 2012 Chocolate truffles by Daphne Posted by The friends at 12:49 1 Response Desserts, Friends' recipes, PHOTO RECIPES Tagged with: chocolate, chocolate truffles, cocoa, Daphne, Digital Scullery friends, kerasma, truffles Daphne (deadendmind) sent me a step by step photo recipe for yummy chocolate truffles. Here’s a note on culture. When it’s our name day or our birthday we traditionally do a kerasma in Greece. It means to offer a bit of food or dessert at work or to friends and family to celebrate. So this is (…) Eat the lot
The Real Greek moussaka, their souvlaki and the gossip May 18, 2012 The Real Greek moussaka, their souvlaki and the gossip Posted by Auntie Sofia at 09:23 2 Responses Auntie's food stuff, Experiences, Main Courses, Meat - Poultry, Places to eat, TEXT RECIPES, Vegetables Tagged with: chef, event, food blogging, mousaka, moussaka, restaurant, souvlaki, stratford, the real greek, westfield, workshop So this might seem a bit weird. Why would a Greek go to see The Real Greek chef make moussaka? “Isn’t it like your national dish?”, “Don’t you know how to make it from birth?” Yes, thank you I get the point, even though I learned how to make it when I was 23. When (…) Eat the lot	A recipe for Greek wild greens and pics from my mum’s garden April 28, 2012 A recipe for Greek wild greens and pics from my mum’s garden Posted by Auntie Sofia at 17:26 No Responses Auntie's recipes, PHOTO RECIPES These days my sister and I are at my mum’s and my stepdad’s house in Atalanti Greece. You can imagine the mayhem. On Friday we had amazing weather so we went out in the garden to gather wild greens. They are called χόρτα (chorta – wild greens) in Greek and we gather them from gardens (…) Eat the lot
Feta pie in a cake tin by Mrs. Eleni April 19, 2012 Feta pie in a cake tin by Mrs. Eleni Posted by Auntie Sofia at 22:29 6 Responses Appetizers, Friends' recipes, Pastry, PHOTO RECIPES, Snacks Tagged with: anthotyro, anthotyros, Atalanti, cheese, cheese pie, feta, feta pie, Greek pie, Mrs Eleni, pie, pie in a cake tin A few months ago Mama Despoina (my rocking mum) called to inform me that at a dinner with friends she had a mythical cheese pie. I initially failed to grasp the significance of this since my mum rarely expresses such admiration for food. Even rarer is for her to gobble down THREE PIECES of feta (…) Eat the lot	Magiritsa – the Greek Easter soup with intestines April 12, 2012 Magiritsa – the Greek Easter soup with intestines Posted by mummy despoina at 13:32 11 Responses Main Courses, Meat - Poultry, Mummy Despina's recipes, PHOTO RECIPES Tagged with: avgolemono, Greek Easter soup, Greek soup, intestines, liver, Mageiritsa, Magheritsa, Magiritsa, Mayeritsa, Mayiritsa) Greek Orthodox Easter is near and I thought I should write about Magiritsa (aka Magheritsa, Mageiritsa, Mayeritsa, Mayiritsa), the soup we eat after midnight, after the Resurrection. This is the tradional Greek recipe so it has intestines (Sofia wrote an explanatory post as this might seem a bit yucky). However, if you can’t get intestines (…) Eat the lot

The all eating chums
Auntie Sofia The Real Greek moussaka, their souvlaki and the gossip A recipe for Greek wild greens and pics from my mum’s garden Greek Easter, the Resurrection hymn and a soup with lamb intestines Eat the lot	Elli Food safety I: C for cross contamination Eat the lot
Friends Chocolate truffles by Daphne Feta pie in a cake tin by Mrs. Eleni Onions stuffed with cheese by Dimitris Eat the lot	Katerina Peppery marmalade (or maybe chutney) by Athena Salad with strawberries (yes, strawberries) Sour Power (part A) \| Cool lemonade Eat the lot
Mummy Despina Magiritsa – the Greek Easter soup with intestines Mummy Despina makes roxakia Eat the lot	The Prophet A taste of the US of A: Burger and home-made buns Eat the lot

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