Lunch 2021

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I think you are both correct.

This is the purslane we have at home, available mostly in the spring. Ours looks very young.

[shrinkrap]

Great travelogue!

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It’s a rare thing to say but I can’t wait to go home tomorrow!
Let’s hope it doesn’t happen again, especially deep in the night, and more than once.

[Sasha]

And this is what it looks like in our gardens as an edible weed:

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Lucky you. We don’t have edible weeds or mushrooms at home.

But we grow most things in greenhouses year round for export. I’d rather have strictly seasonal vegs and fruits.

[bcc]

I hope you stay safe!!!

[Mr_Happy]

Dry fried green beans and a bowl of rice.

[bmorecupcake]

What did you fry the green beans with? A protein?

[Mr_Happy]

I deep fried the green beans first briefly, then in a wok I fried some ground pork in a little lard, added a splash of Shaoxing wine and then added the beans again with some rinsed Tianjin preserved vegetable and soy sauce and stir fried a bit. Mixed in some sesame oil off the heat. Following a recipe from The Food of Sichuan by Fuchsia Dunlop.

[Mr_Happy]

Rice, miso soup, chicken karaage, cabbage, tomato.

[Mr_Happy]

Cantonese claypot rice but made in a donabe, with lap cheong, cured pork belly, broccolini, and dried shiitake mushrooms.

[shrinkrap]

You have amazing lunches!

[Mr_Happy]

Tonkatsu, pickles, cabbage, tomato, miso soup, rice with furikake.

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O.M.G. it’s good to sit on my chair and the walls are not moving!

Found Turkish fresh dates. It’s good to have access to Turkish supermarkets.

Made a simple dip with pistachios

This one is a blend of walnuts, tomatoes, roasted peppers, pom molasses.

Other bits are salad, beetroot puree, roasted aubergine pulp, and sliced cured sausage.

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Last Cretan meals:

(Slightly) sour octopus tentacles

Red wine & olive oil braised cuttlefish

Can’t pay and leave yet. Finish the raki and sweets first.

Same cuttlefish dish I made myself before the holiday:

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At a meze place in the neighbourhood. Didn’t know that maybe I could request certain dishes. For some reason the owner gave me 3 different meat dishes. She makes all the food herself.

We couldn’t get a table during peak times but no problem in between.

Last wine, a Santorini Assyrtiko.

Last Cretan sunset. My flight was at 1pm. There was another earthquake at 2pm. I got the fright of my life, not once but multiple times for 2 days. Big and small, night and day. So much stress.

But I got to go home at the end of the holiday. Have a little more respect and love for Greeks who have to live with this kind of stress every day.

A few things I brought back from Crete and Santorini. The most expensive tomato paste you’ll ever buy (5 euros/tin) and the most expensive golden split peas (20 euros/kilo - the bags in the photo are 400 grams each, about 8 euros).

Cretan honey and olive oil from Sitia.

Hard Cretan cheeses. Next time I have to bring a bigger bag for more honey and olive oil.

[Barca (Barça Alejandra)]

Wow … Fun eating and such lovely items to take home.

The earthquake tremors were in Santorini, correct ? Not Crete ?

[shrinkrap]

I think I want your life. Is there a curated version?

[ipsedixit]

[bcc]

At first I didn’t see the broccoli. But then it was obvious.