November Recipe:
Stuffed Tomatoes |
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Ingredients:
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12 |
medium ripe but firm tomatoes |
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1 cup |
olive oil |
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3 cups |
chopped onions |
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1 |
fennel bulb, trimmed and finely
chopped |
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1 tlbsp. |
fennel seeds, preferably freshly
ground or crushed in a mortar |
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1 cup |
Arborio rice |
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1 cup |
chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley |
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1 cup |
chopped fresh dill |
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1/2 cup |
chopped fresh mint |
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1 1/2 tsp. |
salt, plus more to taste |
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1 1/2 tsp. |
freshly ground black pepper |
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1 |
medium potato, scrubbed, halved
crosswise and each half quartered. |
Preparation:
Preheat the oven to 375 F.
Cut off the top 1/2 inch of
each tomato; set aside the tops. Using a grapefruit spoon,
very carefully remove as much pulp as possible fro each
tomato, without piercing the skin. Chop the pulp. Measure
out 2 1/2 cups; freeze the reast for another use, if
desired.
In a large skillet, heat
2/3 cup of oil and sauté the onions and fennel bulb over
medium heat for 5 minutes, or until soft. Add the fennel
seeds and rice and sauté , stirring, for 2 to 3 minutes. Add
2 cups of tomato pulp, reduce the heat to low and cook,
stirring, for 3 minutes more. Stir in the parsley, dill and
mint and cook for 2 minutes more. Remove from the heat and
add the salt and plenty of pepper.
Stuff the tomatoes with the
rice mixture, leaving a little room for the stuffing to
expand, and cover with the tomato tops. Place the tomatoes
in a 13 x 19 inch baking dish and arrange the potato pieces
in the gaps between the tomatoes. Pour the remaining 1/2 cup
tomato pulp over everything and drizzle the tomatoes with
the remaining 1/3 cup oil. Sprinkle with salt and pepper to
taste.
Bake for 1 hour, or until
the rice is tender (lift the cover of a tomato and check).
Turn off the oven and let stand in the oven for 10 minutes,
then let cool the room temperature. Serve 1 or 2 tomatoes
and a couple of potato pieces on each plate. |
Excerpts from:
"The Foods of the Greek Islands"
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Watch Your Manners In Greece |
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The History of Good Manners In Ancient Greece (Part C) |
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If a couple divorced,
the husband was obliged to return the dowry untouched to his
wife's father with 18 percent interest!
According to Solon, the ideal age for a man to marry was between the age of 27 and 34. For
a woman it
was during adolescence, between the ages of 12 and 16.
The first marriage ceremony was the
engagement, during which the bride's presence was not deemed
necessary. The marriage contract was signed under the surveillance
of two witnesses.
Weddings used to take place during the
month called "Gamilion," specially dedicated to marriage. On the day
of her wedding, the bride had a ceremonial bath with water poured
from a jar called "loutroforos." Following the ceremony,
celebrations took place at the bride's father's house.
Guests were offered sesame sweets.
A special hymn called the
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sung by relatives outside the bridal room ("thalamus"). According to
a later source, its use was to conceal the bride's cries during the
taking of her virginity.
Monogamy was one of the basic
principles of marriage, but this did not hinder men from having
extra-marital affairs with prostitutes or slaves. The same did not apply
for women. If a man caught his wife in bed with another man he had
the right to kill the latter without fear of punishment. Such an
incident has been recorded by a speech written by Lysias ("Kata
Eratosthenous"), in which an Athenian was apologising for the murder
of his wife's lover.
Even though lawmakers supported
marriage as a constitution, most writers were rather misogynists.
Socrates, for example, believed that "a wife is a hard-to-bear
burden," whereas, on asking Diogenes the Cynical at what age one
should marry, he replied, "Young people should never marry; the
older ones should never ever marry."
The children's upbringing was a matter
of great concern for the Greeks. Plato believed that children should
be preoccupied with gymnastics until the age of ten, and then start
reading and writing Aristotle insisted that up to the age of five
children should not be educated or fatigued by studying, since this
world would hinder their growth.
Before the 5yh century B.C., education
was in the hands of private teachers, but later on schools were
established. However, there were hardly any uneducated boys (except
the offspring of slaves) in Athens. The following event explains
just how important education was for the Athenians: When the
Persians were reaching and about to take over Athens, the Athenians
evacuated their town, and their prime concern was to find a teacher
for their children!
to be continued...
Excerpt from "Watch Your Manners In Greece" by Christos K. Zampounis
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