tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10442574426232632642024-03-21T20:05:24.996+03:00foodstepsNenouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119526640523644508noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044257442623263264.post-27716963760383777452013-07-04T20:17:00.000+03:002013-07-04T20:17:19.495+03:00Love in a delightful birthday party<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Summer calendar is full enough to keep me away from my base, Athens. </div>
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Being busy with travelling I hardly have time to think that all my friends left me alone in the big city. Went back to their native places, or abroad to work and/or study. <br />
Well, fortunately I can follow or visit some of them. </div>
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Destination: <b><span style="color: #38761d;">Crete</span></b>. Purpose: <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Vicky's</span></b> <b><span style="color: #a64d79;">Birthday</span></b> <b style="color: #cc0000;">Party</b>. <br />
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Vicky (on the right, smiling with her heart) is such a tease. <br />
Surreal screenwriter, enthousiastic film professional, free spirit, artistic by nature. <br />
We celebrate her birthday at <a href="http://antonella.gr/blog-2" target="_blank">Antonella</a>'s (the batman girl) lovely house. <br />
It was a gleeful night with family, <br />
parents, boyfriends, best friends and a bright dog, Pedro. <br />
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<i>Big hugs, happy faces, real pleasure meeting with a long aftertaste. </i></div>
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The guest of honor was Christoph, Vicky's boyfriend from <span class="st">Switzerland</span>, who is, apart from handsome and hyper-polite, a promising pastry chef. <br />
He made for his girl a unique six-layer b-day cake.</div>
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The miraculous cake consisted of a <i>buttery</i> sable bisquit, a <i>delicate</i> chocolate sponge, a <i>thick</i> chocolate ganache, a <i>fluffy</i> chocolate mousse, red <i>fresh</i> strawberries ans a <i>rich</i> vanilla topping cream put as snatchy waves, resembling <span style="color: #3d85c6;">a naughty sea</span> with wooden floating paper ships!</div>
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We had pizza's, fresh tomato salads, satay chicken on teriyaki sauce, a delicious strand filled with veggies and meat and <a href="http://www.anyoneforpimms.com/recipes/" target="_blank">Pimm's original</a> to "chin- chin" and to celebrate both Vicky's day and her new start to Amsterdam September coming. <br />
Cheers to all! <br />
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ps. I dedicate this post to the b-day girl, wishing her all the best. <br />
Big thanx for the photos, guys. </div>
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Nenouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119526640523644508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044257442623263264.post-32442494278647124212013-03-05T15:49:00.001+02:002013-03-05T15:55:55.181+02:00Fooding around Brussels<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I only knew Brussels for the EU Parliament, Committee, <br />
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In the past months I visited Belguim for a gastronomic <br />
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I had the chance to get to know a little bit of the other side of the coin: what Brussels taste like.</div>
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First stop was <a href="http://www.lepainquotidien.com/">Le pain Quotidien</a> in Sablon. </div>
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Fresh bread, soury goat cheese, dried tomato, basil pesto, olive oil.<br />
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Passing to the other side, I entered <a href="http://www.wittamer.com/en/">Wittamer</a> finest pastry shop.<br />
The reason of my visit was straight and clear: <i>eclair au chocolat. </i><span class="st"><i></i></span><i><br /></i><br />
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Sticky chocolate glaze, soft, flufy pastry, thick and smooth chocolate filling. <br />
Strong and acid aftertaste of the fruity notes of the grand cru chocolate. <br />
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Before dinner I went shopping. <br />
Beer shopping. <br />
In Grand Place among others there is a wooden old store, with a huge selection of Belgian beers.<br />
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Apart from <i>handsome,</i> he was <i>polite</i> and <i>willng</i> to help me find the beer <br />
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I gave him a <i>smile</i>, he gave me a <i>praline bonbon. </i><br />
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With a sweet flavour filling my mouth, I left la Grand Place<i> </i>heading to <a href="http://www.marcolini.be/" target="_blank"><i>Marcolini's</i></a><span class="st"> "jewellery store", the<i><i> </i>Haute Chocolaterie of Sablon</i>. </span><br />
<span class="st">The intercontinental chef </span><span class="st">pâtissier, so famous for his upper class chocolate creations is travelling form Europe to Brazil, Mexico, Ecuador, </span><span class="st">Madagascar, Venezuela to find and choose by himself the best cocoa beans. </span><br />
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<span class="st">I enjoyed it with a Taf Rosebud espreso shot and it was divine. <br /><br />Little do we know about Pierre Marcolini as a person, but, let's admit that we do care much more about his profesional capacity and his edible, tiny visions- his chocolates. </span></div>
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<i><span class="st">PS. </span></i><span class="st">I dedicate this post to my beloved friends Eli and Michael</span> with all my love for a great new start in the heart of Europe.<i> A votre <span class="st"><i>santé mes amis!</i></span></i></div>
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Nenouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119526640523644508noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044257442623263264.post-18427038935673158542012-12-27T22:42:00.005+02:002012-12-27T22:42:53.183+02:00Breakfast is just the beginning<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"If only people came with a restart button".<br />2012 was really tough and heavy. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Such little time for myself, so many hours spent on traffic jams, meetings, working, thinking, explaining, taking care of others. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I count the times I had to re-estimate relationships, take over same actions, <br />re-arrange time, prioritize, fall to zero and climb up again. <br />All these </span><span class="st"><em><b>intensively</b>,</em><em> </em></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">since February</span>. <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ten months later I feel that it was enough. <span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Me in the kitchen. Food helps me think clearly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Quiet, strong tea and salty butter. Crispy bread, smooth goat cheese. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sour and sweet homemade berries' <i>confiture.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Made myself a breakfast. </span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="hps"><b>Procrastination</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> just died. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />A great day just started.</span></div>
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Nenouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119526640523644508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044257442623263264.post-90655175904393570692012-04-10T22:05:00.000+03:002012-04-11T16:09:44.364+03:00Bitter Broken Heart<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">after years of wishing and dreaming about <i>roomating</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">hear the inner truth revealing itself. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There is only one way for me to exorcise the evil. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">so I couldn't help but endure. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Bitter mouthful and heavy, like lies between </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px;"><em style="color: black; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">adolescents</span></em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> in love. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This was the raw material for my chocolate fondant. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Eggs, brown sugar, milk cream and a bitter, so bitter chocolate. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My heart was broken. </span></div>
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<br /></div>Nenouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119526640523644508noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044257442623263264.post-50705105281277688322012-02-27T01:23:00.000+02:002012-02-27T01:23:01.913+02:00Your hand in mine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtv5qnCVthOBhROvnHSlRH6RC5BEyYWiwqtUK1O1e0WKBI_4i_EhjZ-3qnohLFkS7eqaBphO7riddmCyzgsHFztt7-y_6QQUh7XbEii1h-YEXXDM1MlRQVbiOfG0ZTv5dIpBT9zTuGYWhw/s1600/photo+%282%29.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtv5qnCVthOBhROvnHSlRH6RC5BEyYWiwqtUK1O1e0WKBI_4i_EhjZ-3qnohLFkS7eqaBphO7riddmCyzgsHFztt7-y_6QQUh7XbEii1h-YEXXDM1MlRQVbiOfG0ZTv5dIpBT9zTuGYWhw/s400/photo+%282%29.JPG" width="400" /><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">These are the hands that taught me what is soft and what is hard. <br />
Showed the difference between cold and hot, explained the dos and the don'ts. <br />
I have always had an extravagant relation with my mother's mom. <br />
Pure love and strong misunderstandings haunted my childhood and puberty. </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
I was sleeping with her until I was 12, spent my summertime vacations till my 17. <br />
She spent with me more days than with her own children, controlled her patience, <br />
re- estimated responsibility and family affairs,<br />
cooked for me so many breakfasts, lunches and dinners, made me gain 29 kilos in 4 months. <br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">This is Mariό. </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
Last August she had an accident, routine for the <cite>elderly</cite>. <br />
She is now recovering after a big stroke, trying to figure out life. <br />
Again. <br />
Since then she is living with me, because she believes that I take a good care of her. <br />
Also because she wants to make sure that I cook for her family, like she did, everyday. </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
She likes eating mostly candies and desserts, is a passionate vegeterian at her 82 and enjoys drinking red wine like there is no tomorrow. <br />
Today she made her first steps, alone, after eight months. <br />
We had to celebrate her victory against imbalance with something concise and full. <br />
Cheers gradma'. </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div></div>Nenouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119526640523644508noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044257442623263264.post-7452706865181214252012-02-06T17:32:00.003+02:002012-02-06T18:04:09.692+02:00a Silicon Inspiration<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I enjoy buying kitchen utensils almost as much as I enjoy buying shoes. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To make the long story short, with this baking mold, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was thrilled. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">One of my collegues at work (ok, not just a collegue, the absolute working-with-person) bought it for me, just one day after I said I liked it. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So that I thank and please her, I wanted to make an exeptional recipe. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Chocolate was the basic ingredient, as always. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dozens of recipes passed on my mind. Cakes, brownies, mousses. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Until it was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/">NYT</a> and a marvellous recipe with Nutella. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> It's name provoked salivation: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/dining/10apperex.html?ref=dining">Chocolate Hazelnut Panna Cotta</a>. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You can follow the link to see the recipe as it was published in NYT, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">or continue reading to make my version, a customised one. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> 9 gelatin leaves, 3 gr. each</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">80 gr. of chocolate, bitter or milk, finely chopped</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">300 gr of Nutella</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">300 gr. cream</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">1 cup whole milk</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">seeds of one vanilla stick </span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The only cod I knew till 5 years before, was the salted one that my grandmother was cooking traditionally on the 25 of March <br />
served with a harsh and lethal pure garlic paste. <br />
W</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">hen in Thessaloniki</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">, my boyfriend had prepared for me a delicious meal <br />
consisted of little cods (the entire fish, which seems like tiny shark) <br />
and I was thrilled about how tasteful their flesh was fried. <br />
Then I also taste them on a yummy soup. Marvellous. <br />
After living in northern Spain, I cooked bakalao al pil pil <br />
and learned how to tell apart the two species <br />
(from about 60 that swim in the freezing North Sea). <br />
Bakalao <i style="color: blue;">en salazon</i>, full of salt, in fillets or just cod <br />
(what remind me of a baby shark). <br />
Then it was <a href="http://www.nobumatsuhisa.com/">Nobu's</a> famous worldwide Black Cod, for which I can return again and again in Matsuhisa restaurants. Some days ago, I had a fully step-by- step lesson from a famous chef, <br />
how to cook cod on vapor. And then I decided I love that fish. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Although I do not usually post recepies, I am giving an amazing-so- deadly- garlic-paste, <br />
so that you can accompany cod in every way you cook it. <br />
Ok, not with soups.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><b><i>Spicy garlic paste</i></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><i>Ingredients </i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><i>4 slices of bread, soaked in milk</i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><i>200 gr of white almonds</i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><i>4 cloves of garlic (or as many as we want to kill the vampires)</i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><i>15- 20 saffron fibers soaked in a bowl with 2 tbs water for about an hour</i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><i>2 raw egg yolks </i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><i>200 ml extra virgin olive oil </i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><i>75-100 ml white vinegar </i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><i> spicy paprika</i><i>salt and pepper</i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><i>Put in the blender almonds, bread, egg yolks and mix well for 2 min. Add the saffron, paprika and the olive oil. Then vinegar, salt and pepper. <br />
Thick and creamy. A smelly heaven.</i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><i>The recipe is from Cristoforos Peskias and it was published in Gastronomos, issue 69, January 2012. </i></div></div>Nenouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119526640523644508noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044257442623263264.post-88352882008007046882012-01-05T19:22:00.001+02:002012-01-05T19:25:59.624+02:00Egg is the new black<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vYIKyugx4o4/TwXaDhZUjhI/AAAAAAAAAJU/jXVcbfUlYXk/s1600/egg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vYIKyugx4o4/TwXaDhZUjhI/AAAAAAAAAJU/jXVcbfUlYXk/s400/egg.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I hadn't fully realized how much I like eggs. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As a Greek, raised by grandma, when I think of eggs, almost automatically remember </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">my daily </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">over-proteined brunch (the Spanish call it "merenda"), </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">with one raw egg, scrambled in a pot with sugar and cocoa powder. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A thick cream, so sweet and greasy I couldn't swallow. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Everytime the pot should end, though.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Most restaurants I visited those last months </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">had an egg version on their menu- starter, salad or first plate. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Combined with chives or anoints, salmon or even truffle, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">egg can be the perfect canvas for a chef, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and at the same time a hyper cheap material for the restaurant owners. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="st">Mayonnaise, tortilla de patata, oeuf <em>poche</em> benedicte, </span>eggnog, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">or just boiled for 4 minutes with extra pepper - egg can make a rich meal. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">By all means. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> The photo depicts the reason why I do like them so much. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Fried in pure butter, with potato chips, thyme, black pepper and salt. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> And in my case, chef made. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Special thanx to Alexandros Papandreou, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">who after a 5-hour step- by- step-recipe photoshoot </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">was still willing to continue cooking j</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ust because we were hungry. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div>Nenouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119526640523644508noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044257442623263264.post-24058128789421751432011-12-20T20:40:00.001+02:002011-12-20T20:41:28.369+02:00The week before X-mas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><i>Absent from blogging for more than two months, away from cooking for so long. <br />
I have left aside two of my favorite leisure activities because of ...</i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><i>different kinds of trouble. </i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><i>Generally. </i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><i><span class="st"><i>No ganas de Navidad. </i></span></i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><i><span class="st"><i>One week before Christmas we only hear bad news. And bad news, is actuallly news.</i></span></i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><i><span class="st"><i>People lose their jobs, get fired, close down forever their small, family buisiness, can't afford to pay the rent, </i></span><span class="st"><i>leave their appartments to move back at their parents house, are on strike for more than three months, </i></span><span class="st"><i>don't have any money to buy food, are not being able to feed their own children. </i></span></i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><i><span class="st"><i><br />
Not at X-mas mood at all. <br />
Can't help but wonder, is there any hope?</i></span></i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><i><span class="st"><i> </i></span></i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><i><span class="st"><i>I hear about restaurants that offer their food in common meals and messes. </i></span></i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><i><span class="st"><i>I feel lucky and grateful that I can help.</i></span></i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><i><span class="st"><i></i></span></i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><i><span class="st"><i> </i></span></i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><i><span class="st"><i>I want to sing my favorite Christmas <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rx2g2Crjm8">song</a>, just like when I was a child, praying for the kids to enjoy their new toys. </i></span></i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><i><span class="st"><i>Only now, I will pray for people's food and survival with dignity. <br />
</i></span></i></div></div>Nenouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119526640523644508noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044257442623263264.post-49691140227780398642011-10-30T20:52:00.002+02:002011-10-30T21:02:17.755+02:00fall is bringing summer memories<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Eating out in a chic restaurant might be ordinary or special event.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Visiting one when on vacation, is common.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Me eating in one, when visiting Crete, is rare. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mostly because there I enjoy rural, simple food more than stylish, new cuisine.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Isla is a bar restaurant in Gouves, Irakleion. </span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We attended a sushi night, but just asian wasn't enough.<br />
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a mediterranean fresh green salad, <br />
a greek dip of feta cheese and juicy tomatoes, oregano and olive oil. <br />
We were in Crete, afterall.<br />
Sharing dinner was better than food itself.<br />
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My Oly, a promising -producer- to- be.<br />
(who I have to thank for taking those pictures, like a professional food photographer)<br />
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My <a href="http://www.myboutiquosophy.blogspot.com/">Antonella</a>, a young <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; white-space: nowrap;">businesswoman, <br />
full of joy. And passion (about him). </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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Athletic ,adventurous and calm.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And me. Eating. With all my senses. <br />
Feeling grateful about taste and friends in my life.<br />
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Hope next summer it will be all of us around the same table.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div>Nenouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119526640523644508noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044257442623263264.post-9182420042374292332011-10-02T15:55:00.004+03:002011-10-02T17:14:52.509+03:00When friends come to visit...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">at your own house. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the one you made chosing one by one its colors, furniture, every detail,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">so it would be "homy" enough to raise your newborn </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and keep forever alive the love of its family. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To live happily in it ever after. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hapinness is all around.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Alexia is now a proud mom and we were so willing to see her cuddling her child. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Such a caring mother. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And now twice as beautiful. </span></div><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ice cream macarons from <i>Sucre</i>, <br />
a new pastry store in Irakleion. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">Oly's photos. Merci.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div>Nenouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119526640523644508noreply@blogger.com5Κρήτη, Ελλάς35.311869107496769 25.13885894374993834.865066107496766 23.699026943749939 35.758672107496771 26.578690943749937tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044257442623263264.post-34580979875956825152011-09-27T00:26:00.002+03:002011-09-27T00:35:39.109+03:00Blessing. Cretan food and People.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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When it comes to summer vacation, </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">is my number one on the list. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">swimming in its deep, wild <i>seas</i></div></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">wandering around its picturesque little <i>villages </i>with the extraordinary names</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">meeting the locals and hear the most weird <i>stories </i>about people and life</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">making new <i>friends </i>while choosing the sweetest watermellon</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">connecting with animals and <i>nature </i>while walking along its <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; white-space: nowrap;">gorges</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">dancing in the naughty and playful <i>sounds </i>of lira</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>drinking </i>crystal clear alcohol in tiny small shots till blindness</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">eating the real <i>taste </i>of every ingridient</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">filling my lungs with <i>air </i>without acidity</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">living pure <i>life</i>. </span></span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I trully hope someday to call this everyday life. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"><i>For Antonella and Creta I love, for its blessings. </i></span></span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">p.s. Photos taken by <a href="http://hippypoptimus.blogspot.com/">Olympia </a>and <a href="http://myboutiquosophy.blogspot.com/">Antonella</a>, one night full of flavors and laughters. </div></div></div>Nenouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119526640523644508noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044257442623263264.post-65179082058264033992011-09-17T23:52:00.002+03:002011-09-18T00:00:22.247+03:00Bonnet et vin<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Girls nights out usually include fancy dresses, sparkling wine and of course spicy comments about people and life in general- or just about boys. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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in a mix & much, barock restaurant </span><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We drunk my favorite Floara, from Katogi Averof,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">bread and cretan olive oil to begin with,<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">chated about our winter plans,<br />
commented like professionals about food, </span><br />
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and we decided that <a href="http://thesurrealrtgirl.blogspot.com/">Vicky's</a> shrimp and curry ravioli was overcurried and overcooked, so heavy taste. </span></div><br />
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We left the restaurant full, with a slight dizziness and an untold will to smack the night. <br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ps. The pictures are taken by my best friends<b> <a href="http://myboutiquosophy.blogspot.com/">Antonella </a> and <a href="http://hippypoptimus.blogspot.com/">Olympia</a> </b>on our summer vacations in my favorite greek destination. Crete, forever. </span>Thank you so much girls. </i></div><i><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Our coveted September issue is out now.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: center;">Eleven unique recipes for mouthwatering chocolate cakes. </div></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Never been to Paris, but always Paris "finds me" in one or another way- <a href="http://simplefoodsteps.blogspot.com/2010/10/patrick-from-paris.html">round 2.</a><br />
Lover both of food photografy ( yet not capable of making extravagant shots), and<em> professional pastry (c.c eating sweets of any kind), <br />
I couldn't pass by a marvellous idea like </em></span><a href="http://www.susanhochbaum.com/PastryParisMovie.html" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="st"><em>this. </em></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="st"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNCE2kj7d0cn1mBGRGMZPMeomfrA1I0vrRZ6gMM4DNAWjCZszXUXCSr-q6vxIPs8lzyorcZRu2MyXk5zqF-ZNltZdlWBA8ZleoKTqKnhU1pDBpjF19Bm8y5Tr0O0Te2xwzhTB7yjPyzXZb/s1600/pierre-herme-macaron-alsace1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="st"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"Patisserie" reminders around the City of Light ( or maybe City of candy). </span></em></span><span class="st"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I am glad I saw </span><a href="http://simplefoodsteps.blogspot.com/2010/11/fantasy-pallette.html" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Fantasy Pallete</a><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> in between the images.</span></em></span><span class="st"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></em></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Susan Hochbaum</b> is a rather creative designer, who's book is about to be published. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Great, sweet idea. We will be waiting.</span><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">ps. <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The rasberry macaron photo is taken from </span><a href="http://unefoisparmoi.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/halte-a-la-dictature/pierre-herme-macaron-alsace-2/" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">unefoisparmoi</a><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> blog. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div></div>Nenouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119526640523644508noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044257442623263264.post-82804553603685512922011-08-25T15:40:00.001+03:002011-08-25T16:17:09.108+03:00Summer Love<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">Every summer I do realise how much love a man can give to nature. <br />
I get curried away staring at the sea, <br />
listening to cicadas's resistant songs, <br />
loosing the horizon's line from my sight, <br />
feeling the hot sand into my toes<br />
tasting pure summer flavors. </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
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This is what I call a summer love. <br />
Deep green, crunchy and breezy cucumber. </div><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The picture is taken from my new friend <a href="http://www.effieparoutsa.com/">Effie P. a brilliant photografer</a></span></i>, <i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">in our trip to Parga. </span></i><br />
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</div>Nenouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119526640523644508noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044257442623263264.post-25364915659871687682011-08-09T17:50:00.001+03:002011-08-26T18:36:30.981+03:00Catari...non te scurda<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">What I crave for, during summer is pizza nights, not in front of the dull TV, but in a flowery, calm garden of a quite restaurant in the islands. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.catari.gr/">Catari</a> (apart from the napolitan nickname for Caterina) is what I was looking for. <br />
A brand new italian trattoria in Mykonos, where I could eat multiple times if only closer. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
This handsome man is Nikos, one of the two owners, who was more than kind and friendly. Open hearted. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hippie chic ambiente, traditional vietri mosaic, musica anni '80</span><i><span class="st" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="st" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> with</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="st" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Lollobrigida, </i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Cardinale, Loren<br />
</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">the female mediterranean trinity,</span> <i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">giving its blessing and beauty all over</i>. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Salty, creamy, crunchy. Yum. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">p.s. This is where I discovered my favorite pizza topping</span>: <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
Mozzarella, carpaccio di manzo e crema di tartufo. <br />
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You can read my article in <a href="http://gastronomos.gr/">gastronomos.gr</a></span><br />
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</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Catari: Agia Anna, Yialos Mykonos, +30 22890.78571</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div></div>Nenouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119526640523644508noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044257442623263264.post-60913243037895342272011-06-10T19:13:00.001+03:002011-06-23T13:01:02.820+03:00Belvedere ^^ Bello da vedere, ma anche da vivire<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis9j2EyuIi6IXF0_bFMUmN1I64_BmoLxC6MFwA5IcMytUe92DfWiPxQDhfm2a_XJgzGhkBgOSHmWOy0y-MGMYjsV1Uv7PhCbh9MSEhv1BogHjw6SZqHWtXC6kzttFKJWuKjQ1DpOvVTT8w/s1600/DSC00142.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis9j2EyuIi6IXF0_bFMUmN1I64_BmoLxC6MFwA5IcMytUe92DfWiPxQDhfm2a_XJgzGhkBgOSHmWOy0y-MGMYjsV1Uv7PhCbh9MSEhv1BogHjw6SZqHWtXC6kzttFKJWuKjQ1DpOvVTT8w/s320/DSC00142.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">If Mykonos is the place to be during summertime, <a href="http://www.belvederehotel.com/">Belvedere Hotel</a> is the place to stay in. And not only because Nobu Matsuhisa is situated next to its pool. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: small;">In fact, there are so many star hotels in the island, that only few do differ. <br />
I was invited and I spent three days in a rather "working" weekend. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">In between pleasure and job, I did found some time to get tanned, to enjoy walking in the pure white streets and buy traditional products like luza and kopanisti (great greek meze, even greater when accompanied with ouzo). And of course, Liontis handmade sandals. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Felt like tourist!</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Those cute men made my day. </span></div></div>Nenouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119526640523644508noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044257442623263264.post-74698453161246886492011-05-10T18:13:00.001+03:002011-05-10T18:14:55.977+03:00Arnaud Bignon au chocolat.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi09a9WNV1zrsnbPl_3f2SBiKaqzYiNyPMacZrdUomy6KKRGS7gg-pXpjKWYxdzITDK_oMAOHhwxXcJu1K40GAD2c_slCjOxJxxwaAYJua0M3FgKpwvD_ZQlx9PNy9Nu7TlhKSyRTiC1JBZ/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi09a9WNV1zrsnbPl_3f2SBiKaqzYiNyPMacZrdUomy6KKRGS7gg-pXpjKWYxdzITDK_oMAOHhwxXcJu1K40GAD2c_slCjOxJxxwaAYJua0M3FgKpwvD_ZQlx9PNy9Nu7TlhKSyRTiC1JBZ/s320/1.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">It was the first time I burrowed in a Michelin star awarded kitchen. A Wednesday morning I drove up to <b><a href="http://www.spondi.gr/fr/navigation.htm">Spondi</a></b> and participated to one of the cuisine lessons that take place weekly. Chocolate was the theme, so the motive was strong enough. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://simplefoodsteps.blogspot.com/2011/04/down-in-kitchen.html">Impressed by the utensils</a></b>, the accurate moves of the chef, Arnaud Bignon and his marvellous technique that made everything look so easy. Simple food steps. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A three course menu based on the magical, brunette substance- dark chocolate. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The chef used it mainly as a spice, to give a pint of sweet flavor in a green apple- roka salad and then to underline the soft texture of a boeuf, filling a won ton dough ravioli. Shiitake mushrooms in a light broth were swimming all around it. Delightful. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dessert was a masterpiece, consisting of six different mixtures and compounds. So complex taste. Chocolate sablé pâte, meringues in straw shape, chocolate ganache, crispy rice, lemon confit, matcha chiffon. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">After the masterclass, the menu was served in a luxurious table were the students enjoyed the blessing of eating and drinking. Every lesson costs 70 euros and it includes 3 hour tutoring, the recipes and a full meal. The classes are mainly in french or english. For further information you can call 210-75.64.021. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.gastronomosonline.gr/eidiseis/487/Mathima-sti-Spondi?undefined">Here</a></b> you can read the article in greek. </span></div></div>Nenouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119526640523644508noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044257442623263264.post-51565324781855155762011-05-04T13:18:00.000+03:002011-05-04T13:18:15.230+03:00"Sunny" Gourmet 2011<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/HRJhUtRgBBk?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">New Greek Cuisine, promising chefs, simple ingridients. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">In simple words, what we want to eat in greek restaurants. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">A tribute interview with the chefs that participate at Sani Gourmet Festival is published on the next <a href="http://www.gastronomosonline.gr/">Γαστρονόμος </a>that is out Sunday coming. </span></div></div>Nenouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119526640523644508noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044257442623263264.post-72549862985718813042011-04-15T19:02:00.000+03:002011-04-15T19:02:58.417+03:00Down in the kitchen.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last week I entered the kitchen of a <span style="color: #b45f06;">prestigious</span> restaurant. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tutoring was the reason.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> An honoured chef, some chic <i style="color: purple;">francophone</i> ladies craving for learning and a three course menu, based on chocolate.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">True <span style="color: #0b5394;">pleasure</span>. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Guess where I was...</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"> So many utensils, so little time to clean them</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Trying to make a complete guide to brown sugar, today I visited supermarkets and food shops to collect the different types and brands . </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">When I finish my research, I will be able to reveal the secrets and understand its multiple uses. For now, I will just whisper Mary Poppins' sweet lyrics</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> "<span style="color: #0b5394;">A fullspoon of sugar, makes the medicine go down, the medicine go down"</span></span></span><span style="color: #0b5394;">.</span></div></div>Nenouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119526640523644508noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044257442623263264.post-30863917768298957102011-04-11T23:48:00.001+03:002011-04-11T23:49:45.912+03:00Our Sping issue.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">"Glykes Istories" vol 10.<br />
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We love Spring and this is how we show it.<br />
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I already love it.<br />
What about you? <br />
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</div>Nenouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119526640523644508noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044257442623263264.post-6033766131042667812011-03-21T04:33:00.000+02:002011-03-21T04:36:09.612+02:00Delicate little thing.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDT0YWaHud9e8kKn8P_4yUr6TMkIlg2TeKauQruF_uOaZJuImef5Aqi0bM0inNnKHCecWB8NHwg5Ffi7D_w0A2Zwr4HLh1NSOHanlL2PtiZUrjorw7QqSr4CUmIRlAHeoWBgY7lAJFGtx6/s1600/DSC09960.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDT0YWaHud9e8kKn8P_4yUr6TMkIlg2TeKauQruF_uOaZJuImef5Aqi0bM0inNnKHCecWB8NHwg5Ffi7D_w0A2Zwr4HLh1NSOHanlL2PtiZUrjorw7QqSr4CUmIRlAHeoWBgY7lAJFGtx6/s400/DSC09960.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span id="search" style="font-size: small;">Greek saffron does make a difference. In Kozani, a bunch of farmers are collecting with bare hands one-by-one those purple flowers growing in endless hectars. Each one gives less than ten scarlet stamens, what we call saffron (krokos, in greek). </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span id="search" style="font-size: small;">Four of these slim and meager threads are capable of converting one litre of water to dark yellow broth and dye rice grains golden. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span id="search" style="font-size: small;">Risotto ai funghi e saffron for dinner.</span></div></div>Nenouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119526640523644508noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044257442623263264.post-47946489742623656932011-03-08T02:19:00.001+02:002011-03-23T00:35:08.821+02:00Berlin is for (asian) lovers.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR8ddk-4BqZsjow0KbPTnDCsoBYmuA78lGgdgV4gS1EdN8T8YLU_zUSjS929dHYw2RwWqr06azv_gHGSVqiqIGjqc8fUdQm62cP0OUEOFrhCsBFjUUEbyPGx7-07V47oQE453sQr3vtKhI/s1600/DSC00005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR8ddk-4BqZsjow0KbPTnDCsoBYmuA78lGgdgV4gS1EdN8T8YLU_zUSjS929dHYw2RwWqr06azv_gHGSVqiqIGjqc8fUdQm62cP0OUEOFrhCsBFjUUEbyPGx7-07V47oQE453sQr3vtKhI/s320/DSC00005.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzFtvq9wFDAhUHcgHKPHtO29mrqnwEIDDc2EsmXHY5tXaCFhDE5sOgI25YsIQzbBpf88fJg77kYtoBL6fMV2yIEpgn2C4gULE1oIbJpN5zrJ6yQc6dYylsd70J7Jt8S6FojqEjrV4MF3VB/s1600/DSC00011.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Continued from the previous <a href="http://simplefoodsteps.blogspot.com/2011/03/berliners.html"><i>berlining post</i></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our first night in Berlin we decided to eat at a famous- although hidden- place, named <a href="http://www.panasia.de/index.htm">Pan Asia</a>, at</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Rosenthaler Str. 38. For the girls who do not </span><span style="font-size: small;">easily </span><span style="font-size: small;">try other countries' cuisine was a challenge. For me, an asian dinner and some fresh sushi, was just heaven. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Shrimp dumplings, </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">c</span><span lang="en-US">hicken satay with peanut sauce and cucumber salad, maki sushi, fried rice and hot curry noodles and (although they still do not know that they have eaten) </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">m</span><span lang="en-US">e-kong <i>duck</i>, delicious and soft. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"> ps. Minimal style, young customers, good quality of food- an absolute value for money. I will return for sure. A litlle slow motion service, but gentle and polite. If you are a late-at-night-eater, reservations won't be needed. </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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