Our adventure with the cows started maybe 2 years ago. Our dairy herd is gently growing: just these last few weeks we have had five births: 4 female calves which is good news for us, and one male. ...
Mehmet
Planting a Herb Garden in Assos
Here we are in our lovely stone house in the ancient village of Assos which dates back to the 4th Century BC. Just in case you're not familiar with the location, it’s in western ...
Tender Braised Leeks
tender braised leeks with green olives and parsley I love leeks - pırasa in Turkish - and when I saw the picture of this dish in a BBC Good Food magazine, complete with sliced green ...
New Year in an Aegean Village (1)
The last day of 2010 was a glorious day but it didn't feel that way at 6.45 on Friday morning. There I was seated on the fast ferry which skims across the Marmara Sea to a place called ...
Upside-down Figgy Cake
On my last day in the village,the island of Lesbos looked tantalizingly close, the killer humidity that has characterized this summer dissipated, and the sea a sparkling blue. On Sürreya’s roof ...