Food and Drink

[TerryW]

Dimitris,

How about having a child board dedicated to food and drink? This would enable us all to share a topic that is a big part of our holidays and would also help  to educate us on Corfu cuisine. It would enable us to know what the meals look like and what they consist of.

Here is an example ( my favourite )

Galactoboureko

Galaktoboureko is a traditional Greek dessert made with a custard in a crispy phyllo pastry shell.



Mmmmmmmmm just looking at it cheers me up.

[gaye]

good idea Terry and a great start!

[Mick and Jill]

I love lamb so it has to be Kleftico, Micks a Stifado man and Calum well he has sausage and chips.  He does say Yannis from Portofino cooks the best sausage in Arillas ha ha ha.

[riggers]

Iv'e just come in from avery long day and your making me hungry...riggers..

[TerryW]

Kleftico

Lamb Klephtiko. "Klephtiko" is a term that refers to any kind of meat dish that is sealed and baked. The word comes from the time of the Greek revolution, when bands of Greek guerrillas, called Klephts, hid in the mountains and cooked their dinner in pits sealed with mud, so that smoke and steam would not escape and betray their positions.

[TerryW]

Stifado

This famous Greek stew, also transliterated as stifatho, is a braised beef with onions that is simply one recipe among thousands, since every family makes it a little differently and it is so typical of rustic Greek mountain cooking. The name comes from the Italian stufato, meaning stewed meat, and the Greek version probably results from the influence of Venetian overlordship in the Middle Ages when Venice played such a large role in Greek affairs, especially in the Ionian Sea.

I love this photo

[Smiffypink]

Oh i love onions, i always ask for loads of onions with stuff, thats just made me feel so hungry looking at those piccies!!

Thanx for the history behind them Terry, very interesting reading!

[blondegirl]

I love stifado but that picture was a bit too close, looked like something out of casualty

[Cheryl2307]

The pictures are great but ...... am I going mad?  Is the rice really bigger than the meat and onions .....  or is it something else?

[TerryW]

Eggy,

I think I have another task for you to do, during the winter months. How about taking photographs of your meals?

TerryW

[TerryW]

Cheryl

The rice is from a special plant that is grown in the paddy fields in Ireland. It was developed by Kellogs because the Irish Americans wanted louder snaps,crackles and pops with their Rice Crispies.

TerryW

[Eggy]

Eggy,
I think I have another task for you to do, during the winter months. How about taking photographs of your meals?

Terry
You'd get fed up looking at Pork chops, large steaks,chicken,Lamb and sometimes a large turkey drumstick and thigh. For a change though we do have cottage pie.

I think Stiffatho was originally a rabbit dish but Taverna owners switched to beef to avoid upsetting some tourists

Negg

[Smiffypink]

Yep it did used to be made with rabbit, 10 points to Eggy!!

[Lindypops]

Hey Eggy, my other half`s got one on the go right now! Yummy.

[kevin.g]

not with a rabbit lindypops  ..hehe