Growing up, roast lamb and mint sauce was such an established pairing 'mint sauce' even became the nick-name of a wool coat I once owned. Long story which probably wouldn't be funny in the re-telling .. Mint Sauce is also a 'by request' recipe, if recipe you can call it. … [Read more...]
Greek-Style Tomato Salad
This is just one of many, many tomato salads I make over the course the summer. I love them. It probably has something to do with the Sunday afternoon trips down my Grandad Dowton's crazy paved garden path to pick tomatoes from his greenhouse. Always supervised. (It wasn't, … [Read more...]
Greek-Style Asparagus Salad
Yesterday was a record breaking hot day - and this was lunch. I made some olive bread and put together a Greek-Style Tomato Salad, too, but I'll post them next week. I think I must be thinking 'Greece' because the news is so full of scenes from Athens. Tough times ahead for a … [Read more...]
Roasted Pepper Salad
The parent dish of this salad is peperonata. It must be sixty plus years since Elizabeth David's 'A Book of Mediterranean Food' was published in the UK and brought it to our notice. I do think we've got over the grief of not being a misplaced mediterranean country now, but … [Read more...]
Fasolakia
Fasolakia (Φασολακια) simply means 'green bean' in Greek - and this is a deliciously old fashioned Greek green bean casserole. It doesn't take much imagination to realise it's a way of using up a summer glut but, truly, it's so much more than the sum of its parts. It's … [Read more...]