What's Cooking

 A look at what's been cooking in our Greek kitchen over summer

K making his favourite summer dish Briam

A sort of ratatouille.

Zucchini, aubergine, peppers plus carrots, potatoes, onions, fresh tomatoes, parsley, oregano and lots of olive oil ....all the goodness of summer.

I would have added basil and mint but he's a traditionalist.

K is the fish cook in our house

Unless it's fillets fried in batter

These fish are called 'kokalia'. Sea Bream?  Too many bones for my liking but I dissected a few of them.  Their name in Greek means 'bony'. Yeh....

He cooked these in the oven with zucchini, tomatoes and potatoes

Beetroot

K loves to accompany fish with boiled beetroot, bulbs and leaves with a lot of olive oil and vinegar.

 Beetroot are a winter vegetable but these were fresh mid summer with tender leaves.

Another K dish

Spetsofai

Spicy sausages with tomatoes and peppers and a bit of boukovo (hot chilli pepper)

Shrimps saganaki

Shrimps with tomatoes and feta 

Fish, the family dish

Red mullet fried in it's entirety. Accompanied by boiled zucchini.

More bones for me to remove. Filleted fish is not traditional in this house
 

Of all these the only dish I cooked was

Peach crumble

    For daughter Elli.  I also made a small one for K and he surprised me by asking for more.  I have stewed apples and crumble topping in the freezer.  An easy sweet.  

I cook too in case you wondered but he has his specialities and I'm very happy to have handed all the fish over to him to prepare. He prefers to cook the way his mother did, very traditionally Greek.