| κολοκύθες υπάρχουν πολλές... |
| ...αλλά μία είναι η τυχερή... |
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| την κόβουμε.. |
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| την καθαρίζουμε... |
| την κόβουμε σε μεγάλους κύβους (ο Θεός να τους κάνει...) |
Day 2:
To photography by Sophia Karagianni σε παλιές και νέες ταξιδιωτικές περιπέτειες. Με μια κάμερα σας ξεναγώ στην Κω και τα γύρω νησιά. Γιατί εξερεύνηση και φωτογραφία πάνε μαζί. Photography by Sophia Karagianni in old and new travel adventures. With my camera in hand I take you on a tour around Kos Island and the surrounding Islands. Because exploring and taking photos always go together. ©️ The content exploitation copyright belongs to Sophia Karagianni
| κολοκύθες υπάρχουν πολλές... |
| ...αλλά μία είναι η τυχερή... |
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| την κόβουμε.. |
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| την καθαρίζουμε... |
| την κόβουμε σε μεγάλους κύβους (ο Θεός να τους κάνει...) |
And when I say “myself,” I mean I recruit everyone I can — all my friends. One downloads recipes, another calls her mom for more specialized instructions, someone else finds the lime (calcium hydroxide), and the process begins.
Five kilos will become spoon sweet; the rest I’ll use to make a sweet pumpkin pie that my son loves.
Step Two: I buy all the necessary ingredients — 5 packets of sugar (!), citric acid (“xino”), cloves, geranium leaves (arbaroriza), honey, cinnamon.
Step Three: I go to Maria’s house. Maria is an excellent pastry chef, while I’m rather clueless. Plus, she has a yard, which makes everything easier.
Maria mixes two or three handfuls of lime into a basin of water. Once it’s well dissolved, she strains the solution over the pumpkin pieces.
The pumpkin will stay in the lime water for five whole hours, stirred occasionally so the lime doesn’t settle. It’s after three o’clock and I leave, planning to return five hours later to continue. In the meantime, I make the pumpkin pie — another ordeal!
Once the syrup comes to a boil, we add the pumpkin and cook it together with the syrup for 40 minutes. We turn off the heat a little earlier so it doesn’t soften too much, and we leave it in the syrup overnight to set.
Final Step: After almost 24 hours in the syrup, the sweet is boiled once more for about half an hour, until the syrup thickens. This time we add geranium leaves, cinnamon, cloves, honey, and a little citric acid.
We sterilize the jars, fill them while everything is still hot, turn them upside down to remove the air, and offer them — with abundant sweetness — to our loved ones.
When you have friends, you can achieve anything.
For me, Kos is not only the place, the archaeological sites, and the churches — it’s the people too. Maria Agoglossaki, thank you for your help.
There is no more beautiful feeling than finding a way to fulfill a craving…
One tourist shop owner in the old town, seeing me ask for pumpkin spoon sweet “like a pregnant woman with a craving,” promised he would find some for me — even if he had to make it himself.
I think I’ll bring him a jar. 🍯
| η Αγία Σοφία με τις τρεις κόρες της, Αγάπη, Πίστη και Ελπίδα που επίσης γιορτάζουν στις 17 Σεπτεμβρίου |
| ο Άγιος Νεομάρτυρας Παναγιώτης (πρώτη φορά βλέπω τέτοια εικόνα) |
| ο προφήτης Ηλίας με τον προφήτη Ελισσαίο, οι δύο τελευταίες εικόνες είναι έργα των αδερφών Ανανίου Σχ(κ)ήτη Αγίας Άννης Άγιον Όρος (1990) οικογενείας Ηλία Χατζαντώνη |
In a beautiful location in Asfendiou, just a few steps from the small chapel of the Holy Cross, stands the chapel of Saint Sophia.
Nestled in greenery, it lies within an olive grove, and its entrance is hardly distinguishable from the olive trees that surround it.
It belongs to the parish of the Holy Archangels (Asomatoi) of Asfendiou and celebrates its feast day on September 17.
In fact, it consists of two churches, Saint Sophia and the Presentation of Christ (Hypapante), built on the estate of Maria Katras.
Access is from Asfendiou, but I personally have also walked there from Mavrokambia, along a gentle dirt road.
The chapel of Saint Sophia was built in 1986 by the owners of the estate, Panagiotis and Maria Katras.
| ο δρόμος προς την Άλτι |
| λεπτομέρεια από το φίδι του Ιπποκράτη |
| "Μέτρον Πάντων Άνθρωπος" από τον Δημήτρη Ταλαγάνη |
| Η συγκεκριμένη φωτο τραβήχτηκε στην κορυφή του λόφου και δεν γνωρίζω αν είναι τμήμα του βανδαλισμού ή μία ανεξήγητη σύνθεση |
"By the hand of the Ikarian sculptor Ikari, the metal brave and heavy, so that both Myth and History may revere it!"
Within the grounds occupied by the International Hippocratic Foundation of Kos (D.I.I.K.), a space has been designated, on the top of a small natural hill, in front of the “Hippocratic Hall”, dedicated to the Hippocratean Altis.
Altis is a special word used by the Eleans, possibly from the same root as the Greek word for grove (alsos), and it denoted the sacred precinct that included the most important temples — the sacred grove itself.
“Hippocratean Altis – Good Fortune – {name of donor, usually individual doctors or medical scientific societies} – In Honor – Cypress of Asclepius was planted – Kos, May 2008.”
At the top of the hill, for years, stood the impressive sculpture of Hippocrates. The sculpture, perforated at the body and the eyes, depicts Hippocrates holding two snakes by their necks.
The magnificent sculpture of Hippocrates is the work of the sculptor Nikos Ikari (1988), which was placed in a specially designed area on top of the small natural hill, near the main building of the D.I.I.K.
The Hippocratean Altis is the monument symbolizing the plane tree under which Hippocrates is said to have taught.
The beautiful Hippocratean Altis, as redesigned by Professor Sotiris Prapas and admired during the World Congress of Cardiac Surgery, has unfortunately fallen victim to acts of vandalism several times in the past.
The statue was placed on a pedestal and has recently been moved to the main entrance of the D.I.I.K., bearing a plaque inscribed:
“STATUE OF HIPPOCRATES, Bronze, 2.40 meters high, Work of sculptor Nikos Ikari, 1988.”
The Monument
He also made the statues of Pythagoras in Samos, Alexander the Great in Macedonia, Hippocrates in Kos, and others.
He participated in numerous international exhibitions, and his works are held in many private and public collections, as well as in the National Gallery of Greece.