Carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua) is one of the hundreds treasures of Crete. In some countries they call it St John’s bread, locust bean or even monkey food (although that would probably be baobab). Well donkeys and goats like it too… My mom told me that in her childhood in Hungary it was a favourite sweet […]
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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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A workshop organised with my friend Joelle (who happened to have a yurt in Crete) and guided by Grandma Olga who knows the best horta and isn’t afraid to share it with the public. Horta is a culinary word you shortly learn when you come to Crete, the cradle of Mediterranean diet. It is a generic name used
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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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