Wednesday 17 October 2018

The Best of the day

After the nana-nap a friend who is a surveyor arrived to measure up the house.  Parts of the house were built without papers and there is an amnesty on at the moment whereby we can get the whole building legalised without paying too many thousands in fines.  As usual it is all last minute.  The deadline has been extended for one month so we'll just squeeze in.

That took an hour more than necessary because of long political discussions and cups of coffee.  I passed the time by making a 'bucket' of very strong garlic sauce to go with the skate/ray to be fried when afore-mentioned serious deliberations came to an end.

We entertained Vaso's son and some more of her family to celebrate the closing of their wine barrels.  The wine has fermented and now  needs a (short) time to mature.  We should be drinking it by Christmas.


In the meantime we drank the last of the previous year's wine



Fried skate and garlic sauce, the traditional accompaniment to this fish

And a big bowl of the salted olives Vaso had brought us a few weeks ago in anticipation of a small favour required

Whilst watching K's favourite football team Olympiakos get beaten by Milan 2-1. 

So ended this day, rather late and with some of us not in such good humour after a lousy football game.









14 comments:

  1. Skate! Yes please - garlic sauce sounds an interesting accompaniment, I would definitely give it a go.

    May your fine be minute and your legalisation successful.

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    1. The sauce can be very strong or quite ild depending on the amount of garlic you put in and the vinegar. This was Strong! We eat it with skate, salted fish, beetroot and broad beans, traditionally

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  2. Your tables always look so happy.

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    1. Everyone's happy when they're eating. Not to happy afterwards when they've eaten too much!

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  3. Haven't had skate for years - must keep an eye out for it. As Elaine said the garlic sauce sounds interesting. Is that the mustard coloured sauce in the foreground?

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    1. The mustard coloured sauce is 'it'. 'It' is called skorthalia. I love skate.

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  4. I haven't eaten Skate wings for years, I must look out for them. Yours look to be covered in breadcrumbs.

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  5. Football can make you extremely happy or so very upset depression can set in for weeks!
    As my team lost th grandfinal In the last three minutes of the game due to a doggy call from the umpires. I fall in the second group

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    1. I get a message on viber now and again when my brother's team in Perth win ... the Eagles?
      You're a typical greek, passionate about everything, especially soccer!

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  6. What are the ingredients in the garlic sauce? You have me curious. -Jenn

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    1. The garlic sauce, skorthalia, is very simple - stale bread soaked in water and squeezed dry, lots of pressed garlic (as much as you dare), vinegar (the more you add the stronger the sauce gets too), salt and lots of oil. I often add some boiled potato too. A little makes it smoother, a lot makes it gloopy.

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  7. Even the "eats," couldn't make up, for a lousy game, hu????? ,-)

    Good that you got in, "under the line," on the not-done-to-code building stuff.

    ✨🍁🎃🍁✨👻✨🍁🎃🍁✨

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    1. The game and the food are equally important. The wine helped to make moods better!!!!

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