On the herbal traditions of an amazing lady Rosemary Gladstar who created Fire Cider decades ago, this one is a special edition with hibiscus, pomegranate, orange and the rest of the powerful ingredients, herbs, spices & honey. Whoever needs to boost the immune system or recover from flu or such might be happy to enjoy […]
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My new favourite home-made magic drink: water kefir! I’ve been resistant to making it for so long (I thought it needs too much care and hassle, plus I did not like the taste when I had tried). Until the realisation that I can create it to my own taste. Thanks to my dear friend Joelle for
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It’s the days of olives. And the beginning of the olive season where you would hardly miss people on Crete doing the harvest all day long for possibly continued weeks, or even months if with such a huge land. The experience can be exciting when you are a fresh adventurer, or something less wanted if your
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As soon as I finished preparing the black olives in salt (see my post Preparing eating olives: the black guys), I continued with the green ones which go though a different process and consequently will taste quite something else too. As before, we go and select the most perfect olives, making sure they are intact and no worms
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I was invited by dear friends Christina & Manolis to pick my own olives at their beautiful organic land near the Cretan village of Paidochori. Christina roughly explained to me how to prepare eating olives and this is how I followed their instructions to get my own delicacy done. Another first-time adventure in my life! First of all,
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Let’s bring in some literature as a botanical side inspiration. From an innocent post of a photograph with figs that were picked from the trees just down the road… Indeed, the fig tree was crying for me to save their fruits from simply falling and missing their beautiful destiny to provide some nurturing moments for their fellow
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Some philosophical thoughts for today from my gardening time. About 3 months ago I thought I was planting courgettes. Up until they started to grow something bigger… So what was originally planted as courgette (also known as zucchini) turned out to be my first ever homegrown squash (or marrow?). What happened then? A squash soup cooked
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It’s just one of those amazing everyday stories of my life in Crete. But may not be such an ‘ordinary’ one in many other places in the world. Hence sharing my off-topic introduction about ‘sharing’ the events that led me to getting a bag of fresh organic lemons and how I ended up making the first lemon
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The most special bouquet I have ever got. And a new challenge of my Cretan life. This is the kind of bouquet (or bucket 🙂 ) you get when your sweetheart has a farm on Crete. These artichokes are the fruits of love and hope. Now they are the 7 wonders of my kitchen, forming the
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