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Food Treats for Greek Clean Monday (Kathari Deutera)

This post is about our Greek Clean Monday otherwise known as Ash Monday or Pure Monday, which is actually today in Greece.  This is the start of Lent which  begins on the 7th week before Easter Sunday for the Orthodox Church. 

Each year on this day we get together as a family and celebrate the day outdoors, either spending the day at the countryside, at the beach (depending on the weather of course), and  enjoying  the traditional food treats that we don’t usually eat on normal days.

Since we are not in Greece and as many Greeks who live abroad are not able to go back for these special feast days, we try to celebrate the best we can, so since it is a working day in Europe we celebrated our Clean Monday a day earlier yesterday.  🙂  

This was our table of  treats, 🙂  Taramosalata, (Fish Roe Dip) Dolmades, (Stuffed Vine Leaves) Black-eyed bean salad, Cucumbers, grilled Octopus, Olives, Shrimp, Halvas, Gigantes (Big Baked Beans) and of course this special bread that is only made on this day called Lagana, a flat oval bread topped with sesame seeds.  Meat is not eaten today, anything that consists Red Blood is not eaten. 

I wasn’t able to make Lagana, but I will some time soon and post the recipe.  🙂  I will also be posting a recipe for Taramosalata (Fish Roe Dip) the next couple of weeks.

Wishing everyone a great week…..:)

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Xronia Polla se olous kai Kali Sarakosti!! 🙂

 

 

19 Comments

  1. Thank you Ben...tried my best with what I had ;)
  2. Your treats look great, Sophie! I believe it is nice celebration for you. You have beautiful photos! :-) <3
  3. Loved it
  4. What a fun celebration! Looks like a lot of tasty treats too :)
    • We also fly a kite on Clean Monday..Traditions.:) Thanks Dee dee. Your back in AZ good for you!!! in the warm weather....will send you an email look out for it. Huge hugs
  5. Diana Tyler (Eccentric Muse)
    Lovely photos and I enjoyed learning about Greek traditions. A great week to you, too. :)
  6. Enjoy your celebrations dear! Love reading about your traditions.
  7. Lovely recipe! Love the detailing too, you’ve taught me quite a bit about the Greek culture, thank you.
  8. Whoa kinda presentation ✌✌
  9. Wow your spread looks amazing and sooooo tasty mmmmm

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