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My 99c offer for this weekend, plus a delicious summer dish from Greece

Hello, All! Thrilled to announce that my supernatural romantic comedy, The Amulet, is on offer at 99c this weekend to celebrate the arrival of summer! Yes, it’s summer here in Greece, finally. The sea is not all that warm yet, mind you, but the sunbathing is sheer bliss!

😎 99c! Only this weekend!

Katie has a guardian angel… she just doesn’t know it. Plus, she’s falling for him.

When Katie loses her office job, a gypsy woman hands her an amulet for good luck. Next, she gets hired as hotel receptionist on the Greek island of Sifnos.

Katie’s overbearing boss at the hotel keeps her on her toes, and she soon feels enamoured with Aggelos, a handsome yet peculiar guest, who keeps coming to the rescue whenever she needs help.

Katie is intrigued by him and his quirky friends, unaware that he is a guardian angel that came with the amulet. As she falls in love, the unanswered questions pile up, driving her crazy.

 Will Katie get her happily-ever-after? It may take a miracle; but on an island as magical as Sifnos, anything is possible!

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 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Her descriptions are so vivid that you can feel the wind in your hair, the sunshine on your face, and the sand beneath your feet. I felt as if I walked into a painting that came alive.” ~Rita E. Watson, Amazon reviewer

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Thinking of summer things to share with you today, I decided on my family recipe for Briam – an authentic vegetarian meal of Greece. It tastes the best in the summer when the beef tomatoes are ripe and sweet. The typical way to accompany this meal is Feta cheese  – either baked towards the end of cooking scattered on top, or placed as is, on the side of the plate. However, my personal favorite is to serve Briam with a dollop of the palate-pleasing garlic dip we call Tzatziki. Highly recommended 😍

Go here to get the recipe for both Briam and Tzatziki. Opa! 😎

 

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My family recipe for fasolada. Bean soup with pasta tubes

Hello All! Today, I am sharing a traditional Greek recipe for bean soup, i.e. “fasolada”, and it happens to be one of my father’s best.

Truly, my late father, Fotis, made the best ‘fasolada’. More often than not, he cooked it with tubular pasta. It was like no other meal he made, a real masterpiece.

I am thrilled to share the recipe with you today, as well as a little about my father himself, and his cooking abilities.

You can enjoy fasolada, this traditional Greek soup, with or without the short tubular pasta (‘koftaki’ in Greek or ‘ditalini’, in Italian). But if you do use it, it needs to boil thoroughly. If the pasta tubes don’t melt in the mouth, they’re not done! You’ll know why when you eat them, once they have absorbed fully the starchy yumminess of the beans.

This recipe uses white (navy) beans, and this is the typical ones Greeks put in soups. I do not recommend that you use another type for this traditional recipe.

My family and I spent many Easters in the 1980s with my grandparents in Moraitika, Corfu. During that time, my father took over as a cook for the big day from my mother, Ioanna, and grandmother, Antigoni.

Here is something odd about my father, Fotis, and his cooking… When I was a child and a young woman, the only time I ever saw him in an apron was at Easter when he’d prepare and cook the lamb and the ‘kokoretsi’ on the spit.

My mother did all the cooking all year round, so, naturally, I thought my father couldn’t cook. When my mother got ill with cancer back in 2016, my father began to do the cooking in their house. At first, he’d ask my mother to stay closeby and provide guidance, but soon enough, he was able to cook confidently (and surprisingly well) on his own.

When I asked him one day how come he’d learned so quickly and could cook all those delicious meals, he told me he used to cook as a young man, and had even worked in a bakery…

GO HERE to read the rest of the post about my father’s cooking, and to get his fasolada recipe, of course!

 

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