Today I’m preparing a Mediterranean feast for our monthly gathering at the Press, which will remind me of many of my favorite places. Marinated golden & red peppers, tapenade with orange & mint, goat cheese, feta, fig butter, Spanish cheeses, spanakopita, hummus, baba ghanoush, falafel, grilled eggplant, Italian Leccino olives, mint tea, baklava, Egyptian fig cakes, Persian almond cakes with cardamom. That will make up for the gray weather, and (mostly) for having to be indoors.
(And to continue my posting of Roman frescoes, this week, for no particular reason but spring whimsy, here’s one of figs.)
image: Fresco of a basket of figs at Villa Poppaea, Oplontis, Italy, Lise Hannestad
That is not a Mediterranean feast, that is a true Mediterranean cornucopia!
ReplyDeleteI love baba ghanoush, hummus, and everything you listed! Can I join the party? :)
Wish you could have been there! It’s funny how those particular foods make us all, simply, happy. (btw, the combination of goat cheese and fig butter was especially delicious/delirious)
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