Tuesday

 Menu

During this Holy week my Greek husband, my two girls and some of the grandchildren continue the fasting tradition.  Many of the younger generation do the same.  They eat vegetables and legumes at home, cooked by Mama, although temptation is all around them. Souvlaki shops don't close although they usually offer a vegetarian alternative.  Pita wrapped around fried potatoes, tomato slices, onion and either kalamari (doubt you'd find that here ) or vegetable fritters.

MacDonald's has a fasting menu too. Though there's no MacDonalds here and nothing like it either.  I haven't stepped inside one for years but I remember before Easter they used to offer fried onion rings and vegetable burgers.

K ate spinach and rice yesterday.  I had grilled fish.  He didn't even blink an eye at my plate or try to steal a forkful.His Mama (and the church) trained him well.  Today he's having greens and fried potatoes.  I'm finishing off the chicken wings.

He loves a small sweet after his meals.  Other times it will be a square of chocolate.  Now it's a small square of turkish delight, called loukoumi here, which is 90% sugar, unhealthy but allowed.

Wednesdays and Fridays he won't eat any olive oil either.  His meals will be boiled potatoes, tomato, olives and lots of bread.

We are still cleaning up and planting basil and flowers.  They do better than vegetables. 

 K has arranged for the lamb to be delivered on Friday or Saturday and tomorrow he will start cleaning out the insides of metres of tube like intestines, ready to wrap up the kokoretsi.  That's s offal on the spit which is one of the meats on the menu on Sunday.

A little bit of painting

My front garden completely free of oxalis and any other weeds

A few rugs taken up and cleaned ready for summer storage

A little bit of whitewashing

A clean, of weeds, backyard

Rubbish thrown out. A fraction of what should be chucked from the backyard