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Autumn in Koukouli. The beech forest turns copper from the top of the mountain down, and we light the first fire.

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Breakfast from above: a coiled pie, a tray of greens pie, yoghurt and honey, eggs in the pan, mountain tea, bread and preserves

Η κουζίνα

Pies in the morning, one table at night

Petros cooks the way the Zagori cooked when there was nothing to buy: from what the slope, the garden and the neighbours have, and from his grandmother’s blue notebook.

Breakfast, from eight to half past ten

At the long table in the kitchen, or in the courtyard under the walnut from May. Everything is included in the rate.

Three pies
Rolled that morning. One green, one cheese, one from the notebook, changed by the day.
Sheep’s yoghurt
From a shepherd in Kipi, with thyme honey from Vradeto.
Eggs
From Kyra Froso’s hens, fried in olive oil with tomato, or boiled.
Trahana with feta
On cold mornings, when a pie is not enough.
Bread
Sourdough, baked in the wood oven on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Mountain tea
Sideritis, with the wild oregano and mint Petros picks behind the church.
Preserves
Cornelian cherry, quince, green walnut. Spoon sweets, the way they are offered in any Zagori house.
Coffee
Greek coffee in a briki, or filter. Nobody here will make you a flat white.

A pie for each day of the week

Beside the green pie and the cheese pie, the third one follows Kyra Vangelio’s week. She wrote it down in 1970 and Petros has not changed it.

About the blue notebook
  1. Monday TodayLeek pie πρασόπιταLeeks softened in butter, with feta and a little trahana.
  2. Tuesday TodayNettle and greens pie τσουκνιδόπιταNettles, sorrel and wild fennel, whatever the slope has.
  3. Wednesday TodayPumpkin pie κολοκυθόπιταGrated pumpkin, raisins and walnuts, not too sweet.
  4. Thursday TodayStriftopita στριφτόπιταA coil of thin pastry around feta, baked in a round tray.
  5. Friday TodayMeat pie κρεατόπιταLamb and rice, with mint. The one people ask for the recipe of.
  6. Saturday TodayCheese pie τυρόπιταThree cheeses and eggs, in a pastry rolled thinner than paper.
  7. Sunday TodayRice and milk pie γαλατόπιτα με ρύζιKyra Vangelio’s Sunday pie, sweet with cinnamon.
A long table with a white cloth in the stone courtyard at night, a pot and a carafe on it, lanterns strung through the walnut above

Dinner on request

One table, one menu, whoever is staying. Most nights from October to May, three nights a week in summer.

Price
€32 a person, €14 for children
Ask
Ask by noon for the same evening.
To drink
Wine from Zitsa by the carafe, €12. Tsipouro from the village still, free.

A dinner in October, for example

  1. Trahana soup, or wild greens with lemon
  2. Leek pie from the morning, reheated in the wood oven
  3. Kid with prunes, or bean stew with smoked pork
  4. Walnut cake with a spoon of quince

Tell us what you do not eat. Vegetarians eat very well here; the old Zagori kitchen fasted half the year.

What the kitchen cooks through the year

Spring Άνοιξη

Nettle and wild greens pie, lamb at Easter, the first sorrel, eggs from Kyra Froso’s hens down the road.

Summer Καλοκαίρι

Zucchini-flower pie, trout from the Voidomatis, cherries and then plums from the courtyard, courgettes from the garden in quantities that alarm Petros.

Autumn Φθινόπωρο

Pumpkin pie with raisins, wild mushrooms from the beech woods, trahana soup, quince in syrup, the new tsipouro from the village still.

Winter Χειμώνας

Leek pie, bean soup, kid with prunes, hilopites with walnuts, rice pudding from Kyra Vangelio’s notebook. Dinner on request nearly every night.