Lenten ouzo meze!

It's now Holy Week and I am making an effort to fast until Saturday midnight. So here is the ouzo meze from my last night‎ in Koroni at Kaghellarios Restaurant (one of my fave's) -- no meat or cheese. Still quite tasty. Oooops, do I seem tipsy?

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Pre-Holy Week feast!

Tomorow is Palm Sunday (according to the Easter Orthodox faith), and I have vowed to fast until Easter. But even though I am sitting on the waterfront of my grandmother's village of Koroni, Messinias, I have settled on chicken cooked with lemon, roasted potatoes and baby okra -- perfect!

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Spoon sweets!

Going to someone's home in Greece for coffee? Theses days you may be able to choose between Greek coffee or filtered. But you must still expect to be served a boiled/preserved and bite-sized "spoon sweet" in a little dish to be eaten with a little spoon. Here are 3 examples (2 fig and one orange) served up by my cousin Dina in Naousa, my dad"s hometown.

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Take-out Patsas (Tripe Soup/Menudo Greek-style)

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Serious Greek restaurant!

This is what you want in a ‎Greek restaurant -- good home cooking ( a"fagathiko")...and chance to look at everything before you choose. I had the best okra and peas cooked in tomato sauce. Can hardly wait to go back to "To Limeri" at Olymbou 116, Thessaloniki. Opa!

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French fries a la carte!

Downtown Thessaloniki for a walk and a snack...and this is how French fries should be served "in the hand!"

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Pontian classic!

Sonia showed up with a Tupperware container full of "Miliasta" -- it's a classic Pontian (Black Sea) dish made from cracked corn, red beans and "black cabbage. One of my favorites, what a treat!

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