Paphos Life

Just for our UK members

Uncle D .....Am I allowed to CANCEL YOU?

Uncle D, I have news for you, with our weather, you would have to be mad to want salad in February!

Why, its warm indoors, isnt it?

Perhaps you have plenty Avocados as an alternative. This is my salad today after I had a huge village salad yesterday at the fish tavern....

Avocado, cut small, on top apple cider vinegar, pepper, curcuma, garlic, shrimps, roe cream.



Max

Max

I have to say that it does look good.

Uncle D

Yes it is, but you have to go out to buy the salad.

Talking of shrimps, my help made a shrimp and potato pie last night. The pie was delicious, except for the shrimps which looked good but completely without flavour. Of course, they were frozen and I find that all frozen fish seems tasteless these days. I put this down to the fact that the fish is frozen on the trawlers, within minutes of being howked out of the sea. When I was a kid, fish tasted like fish, probably because it was three days old before it reached the fishmonger's slab and had time to mature.

I agree that food looks tasty David but we are all on a diet of gruel over here But seriously the media are constantly reporting a shortage of food in the UK & all sorts of doom & gloom & a lot of it is not true however we do miss your climate & I certainly miss tasty tomatoes, halloumi, olives & grapes just to mention a few

jagwheels wrote: ↑Mon Feb 27, 2023 2:33 pm I agree that food looks tasty however we do miss your climate & I certainly miss tasty tomatoes, halloumi, olives & grapes just to mention a few

Well, tasty tomatoes, halloumi, olives we have all the time here in CY, but 26-27c, for the last day of February, forecast for tomorrow at Paphos are very welcome not only for me.... air-con heating will have a break, maybe for good this year? nobody knows....

Max

My husband went shopping in our local Asda this morning. He said that there was plenty of salad stuff available. Don’t believe everything the media would have you believe.

Same here, went to a local Aldi, plenty of salad items, plus other fruit and vegetables.

Not that I bought salad, it's freezing here. Just the thought of it makes me shiver.

If it's any consolation we are finding it hard to get a decent turnip

Not sure whether I should tell my recipe for salad dressing because it contains ingredients you can´t buy in Cyprus ("Salat-fix", a bag of condiments you get at each German supermarket). Anyway: I´ll dissolve 1 bag of Salat-fix in about 30 ml of water, add about 150g of sheep yoghourt, mustard, balsamic vinegar and about 100 g of feta cheese as well as a few caraway seeds, garlic and onion in a blender and add olive oil.

Uncle D wrote: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2023 9:18 am If it's any consolation we are finding it hard to get a decent turnip

That must be a bummer if you are Cornish. Although my wife isn't she has mastered this art & makes them every week

Norv, they look absolutely delicious, she should market them.

They look good but, hey, this country uses metric W&M, in preference to apothecarys' drams!

They're the best pasties that I've ever seen, Jag

Thank you David & in answer to Devil's response where he recently said on another topic "As a traditional stick-in-the-mud" I also stick to what I am comfortable with