Zucchini blossoms stuffed with rice and crushed wheat

The flower of the zucchini tree in Cretan summer is coveted among food lovers, but difficult to find in commerce, maybe some street markets. The best are the male blossoms leading to stalk and not the ones that turn into zucchinis later. They are gathered in the morning because later they close and it’s difficult to fill them and […]

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Escargots with crushed wheat. {Hohli me hondro}

“Hohli” are the escargots which are one of the oldest foods of Cretans. Especially since they are in abundance on the island, it is certain that during the Ottoman Empire, they helped the housewives to feed their family in difficult circumstances and to provide the necessary proteins in their daily meal. Important is also the fact […]

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Escargots in savore sauce with rosemary twigs.

In Cretan restaurants and «kafeneio» you will see them called «Hohli Boubouristi» which is the name in Cretan dialect. One of the most favorite delicacies in Crete and famous now both in the rest of Greece and beyond our borders. Surely the most popular way of cooking snails, especially in the taverns (kafeneio) of the island […]

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