Greek Food

I have been living in Kalymnos for 3 weeks now and I have tasted a lot of Greek national dishes.
Greek food is very different from the food I'm used to in Great Britain.

People on the island eat a lot of Feta cheese, yoghurt, honey and olive oil.

There are lots of lemon trees and Kalymnians squeeze the juice of lemons on their food.

There is no frozen food on the and ready cooked meals in the super market. So people buy fresh
vegetables and fresh meat or fish and cook everything from scratch. Also Kalymnians keep loads of animals( goats, chickens, rabbits and sheep) to provide them with their own fresh eggs, milk and meat.

As well you can find a lot of fig, orange and olive trees on the island.

Overall I would like to say Kalymnians eat much healthier food than English people, and that is why they live to about the age of 100-110 and don't suffer with obesity.

Some of my favourite dishes so far are:

FAKES - a lentil soup usually served with vinegar and olive oil.

GREEK SALAD - a tomato salad with cucumber, red onion, Feta cheese and kalamata olives, dressed with olive oil.

ZOUTZOUKAKIA - large meat balls with cumin, cinnamon and garlic and served in a tomato sauce.

And my favourite sweet so far is GALAKTOBOUREKA - custard between layers of phyllo pastry. The name derives from Greek "Ghala" meaning milk, and from the Turkish "borek" meaning filled, thus meaning "filled with milk".