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PICK A PACKET OF PASTRY OR TWO…

14/08/2015 By
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  There’s a lot to be said for a good tart or pie. Among the pies and pastries that arrive on our table, one of my favourites is rabbit pie. Having enjoyed this delicacy in several countries, I can assure you that the Cyprus rabbit is as good as any. Being “tame”, it doesn’t have […]

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PATRICK’S JULY POT-POURRI

13/07/2015 By
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EDITOR WANTED? To quote its own blurbs, “Parikiaki” is ‘the leading Greek Cypriot newspaper published in London which serves the Greek and Greek Cypriot communities in excess of 300,000 people’. This month it ran a story about a Greek Cypriot couple who recently opened a restaurant featuring Cyprus cooking in a town called Chandler in […]

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Filed Under: Diary, Patrick's Potterings, The Cyprus Gourmet, Weekly Edition Published in Cyprus

Thoughts for Summer Meals

01/07/2015 By
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As the temperature rises, so does the urge to sit at a shaded café table, overlooking blue, blue sea and contemplating a cool glass of chilled Xynisteri, whilst considering the menu. Or, if you want the wine to wait for the food, a non-alcoholic refresher. I have just the thing. HONEY DEW LEMONADE Ingredients for […]

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Filed Under: Mediterranean Recipes, Recipes, The Cyprus Gourmet

Thoughts for Summer Meals

29/06/2015 By
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  As the temperature rises, so does the urge to sit at a shaded café table, overlooking blue, blue sea and contemplating a cool glass of chilled Xynisteri, whilst considering the menu. Or, if you want the wine to wait for the food, a non-alcoholic refresher. I have just the thing. HONEY DEW LEMONADE Ingredients […]

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Filed Under: Diary, Eating at Home, Mediterranean Recipes

BUKRA FI MISH MISH

01/06/2015 By
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Memories flooded back as I turned the pages of this food and family orientated book. It is many years since I visited Damascus, and indicative of this is that back then, in the 1960s, I, an Englishman, drove by myself to and through the city several times on return trips from Beirut to Amman, in […]

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MARROWS LARGE, MARROWS SMALL, MARROWS LIKE A CANNON BALL.

29/05/2015 By
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Long ago and far away, newly married, on a glorious summer Sunday day,after attending a conference in the north of England my wife and drove south, homewards.  We had booked lunch in the countryside near Cambridge at a then famous small restaurantrun by a brilliant, but irascible Frenchman. After a simple but truly memorable meal […]

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Filed Under: Diary, Eating In, Mediterranean Recipes, The Cyprus Gourmet
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