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A picture a day

Snow blowing sideways with power outages here. One from Saturday


 
 
Crossing the vasilopita (Greek cake with orange and walnut flavor)

 
 
Well, while we are on the subject of Greek Christmas sweets, here's a photo of the melomakarona we made back in December:



Happy new year everyone!
 
loccdor said:
Then she sends them to us across the Atlantic, it's always funny to see how much they get crushed in the mail.
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If she were to send them here within Europe, I might be able to verify that they don't get crushed as badly. You know, just to help out with QA or something. IDK, whatever, just send them here, OK? LOL!

 
loccdor said:
My mother in law makes good ones! Then she sends them to us across the Atlantic, it's always funny to see how much they get crushed in the mail.
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We've sent melomakarona to others within Greece, I've heard of others sending some within the continent, but transatlantic dispatch is something I wouldn't expect. Lucky you!

Crushed or not, they're just as delicious.
 
Chuck1 said:
This makes me think of loukoumathes(english sp?)
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I suppose most would spell them loukoumades, which would be close enough and avoid the ambiguity of "th". Loukoumades are soft, melomakarona are basically biscuits dipped in honey - sugar syrup. They're very nice, but melomakarona are much better.
 
 
 
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