Wow, another beautiful holiday in Greece. I love visiting Pellion/Pelion, beautiful mountain, crystal clear sea, kind people, and simple way of life. Very rustic! That's what I love everytime I visit European countries. Every where we went in Pellion, there were chestnuts trees, walnut trees, pomegranates, figs, apples, pears, and we found sharon fruits! Unfortunately, sharon fruits weren't ready for us to eat, maybe another a couple of weeks???? they were still really green and hard. We love them! When we went to South of France last year, we had them nearly everyday! I saw some allotment in people's gardens. They were growing: squash, courgettes, tomatoes, peppers, and list goes on. They all looked happy. Growing with plenty of sun and rain in the area make fresh products taste soooooo yummy and full of flavour. Each salad ingredients we had tasted so different from we have here in England. Even Waitrose's salad ingredients taste nothing compare to Greek products. Wow, sunshine make that much difference. Interesting! Anyway, that's why everytime i made salad for our dinners, I didn't have to do anything. I just made vegan aioli(garlic, extra virgin olive oil, and lemon juice. blitz it with hand blender, here it is, vegan mayo!) or simple dressing with lemon juice and extra virgin olive oil. That was enough. This is what we normally had:
these are our typical dinner. Just simple salad, vine leaves from local shop(they were in tin, but didn't taste tin, also taste gooood!) We had big chunk of Greek feta fro 3 evening, why not? At the end of the day, we were in Greece, feta and yogurt we must taste. And It was fun and taste soooooo good. Anyway, after that, we didn't have anymore feta, Marcus's intolerance of dairy products came up. But it wasn't as bad as when he was in England. We enjoyed very much!
For our breakfast, we had protein smoothies with local fruits and protein powder called "raw power". Taste very nice, and I liked them. Thinking of getting it for myself for my breakfast.
We decided to alternate smoothies and Greek yogurt, fruits and honey, but after 3days of having dairy product, we just kept going with our smoothies. Anyway, this is our tasty breakfast.
I'm a big fan of Greek yogurt. Some honey we had was very intense and nutty. I would imagine bees were bizzy collecting from chestnut/walnut tree flowers. First jar of honey we got from Agria (small sea side village with lovely taverna, we stayed for a night on 7th) was very light, lemony and flowery. I never tasted honey like that. It was magic. I still dream about it.
As our holiday went on, I gave my dinner slight variations. I soaked dried broad beans, peel, then cooked. Then mixed with tomato and lemon dressing I made. Basically bit like raw variation of "big beans in tomato sauce". Of course, time to time, we bought proper big beans in tin too.
Every evening, I was looking forward to our dinner. I enjoyed making everything we had. I added raw aubergines into our salad. I cut/slice thinly, sprinkle with some salt, let water drain, wash, squeeze out more water. doesn't taste bitter. Actually, this aubergine is nice to eat with soy and lemon dressing. (In Japan, we eat aubergine like this)
I also soaked some chickpeas. Even chickpeas and tahini tasted different. Marcus made some hummus. It tasted really good, I loved it. Cooked chick peas, lots of lemon juice, 2-3 heaped tahini, s&p, extra virgin olive oil and lots of garlic. Very simple, and versatile food. Hummus is my favo dip. I make it often when I'm at home. We had his hummus for 2 dinners. Following evening, I made chickpea and tomato salad(with lots of garlic and lovely sweet red onion!). We defo didn't go hungry. Didn't wast nothing either. How could we waste our food, we love our food and we were on holiday!
Oh, another naughty things we had was crisps! We found lays olive oil crisps, we had it for our snack, more or less every afternoon. When we were in Agria, we found Lays baked olive oil and oregano crisps. We didn't see it after that. I saw Lays olive oil crisps in Mallorca. Why can we have it here too? It only contained olive oil, salt and potato. No naughty things in them. And less calories (a bit) than other Lays crisps. Having say that, I think it would be very dangerous for me, I would be eating it all the time! So, maybe, better to leave them in Greece or Spain.... Well, now I got more reason to go back there.
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