Friday 25 September 2020

One Mornings 'Shopping'...


In more 'advanced' countries one shops online.  Here we 'shop'  at the cafeteria with a cup of coffee, pleasant company, hopefully in the warm sun and everything is brought to our table



The first black olives for salting.
A handful for K to salt.  Given to us by the cafe owner who had picked a few from his early producing olive tree


Ouzo meze
After the coffee comes more serious business


Lottery seller




Fig and tomato preserve
These were brought to us to try and inevitably to take home.
The figs preserved in syrup will go into fruit cakes.  The tomato preserves for all their sugar still tasted like tomatoes.  They will go into a fruit cake too, cut into tiny pieces.  I'm sure anyone who notices will think it's a cherry in their cake. Sticky sweet preserves are not my favourite.




Small fish for frying whole
They are eaten whole too.
Open your mouth and down it goes
We ordered these from the fish market.  Today's catch.
At home they will go straight into the flour and the frying pan 



Fresh from the fishing boat which came in an hour ago



Homemade raki
Dropped off by a neighbour who sat down a few tables away and remembered he owed us some of his own distillation


A bag of pistachio nuts and a few lemons
Another friend had just arrived for a coffee after watering his lemon trees on a small plot on the mainland



This morning's loaf.  Sourdough still warm from the baker's oven.
Wrapped in paper so it doesn't sweat

26 comments:

  1. I want all of that food. Especially the pistachios

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  2. You guys are like royalty.

    Mind you this swap and share is how real communities should work isn't it?

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    1. K does a lot to help people around the island and they never forget him but friends share with friends. One plus of a small community

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  3. I would swap online shopping for your pace of life any day :)

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    1. Certainly is easier, or lazier. Even the bread was brought to us by another coffee drinker who went to get his own loaf

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  4. I like your kind of shopping, relaxing with an ouzo!! Those little fish remind me of whitebait.

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    1. The fish are a little bigger than whitebait. Mmmmm whitebait fritters nothing like them here

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    1. Everything except toilet paper, which we have plenty of!

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  6. That all looks so very good. I imagine the raki is much the same as our Eau de Vie. We have two bottles; one made from Pears, the other from Plums (no grape). Neither bottle has been touched for over 20 years, maybe I should sample them this winter.

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    1. Try the eau de vie and tell us what it's like. Just don't try too much of it or you may have trouble remembering the next day

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  7. Wow. I wish I could go to a cafe and come back with all that
    Actually. Just being able to go to cafe right now would be great

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    1. I must admit that this post is a 'little' misleading. It's one I wrote exactly one year ago and somehow got forgotten in 'drafts'. We don't out to cafes anymore either but at least we can. I'm sure nothing will have changed once socialising is legal again and we do get out.
      Courage, this has got to pass

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  8. I’d really like to shop at your shop....I can’t get bargains like that in mine.

    lol I’m with Angela in wanting to visit a real sit down cafe:)

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    1. All fresh and local. And a lot of bargains. Oh for days of old

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  9. I love the whole scenario! How I would love to have my own citrus trees. And that loaf of bread looks so incredibly good. I just can't get past, however, eating a little fish whole. I think it's the eyes. -Jenn

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    1. The eyes, yes. That's what our visitors say. Crunch crunch lol

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  10. These are the benefits of living in a small community! The preserves made me drool, as did the olives. What type of fish is the catch you're taking home?

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    1. The olive seasons just beginning. In a month everyone will be picking.
      What type of fish, mmmm smallish fish. I'll ask k when he comes in. I just eat them. He selects, buys and cooks

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  11. There's a Frenchman who sells sour dough in our nearest town in West Cork. You seem to be well catered for.

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  12. I'm with you on the coffee, it certainly starts me off each day as for the sour dough, strangely enough it's the only type of bread I can eat.

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  14. What wonderful food you are showing; I spent some time in Greece and love that cuisine.

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