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[LENA]

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And you are right about that dish it is "mpizeli giaxni" although I couldnt see any meat or chicken in there we make it with chicken or lamp.

Kafene do you eat food made by Cypriots??? That food by the way doesnt include any celery!!!

[kafenes]

Lena, mana mou, mpizeli giaxni is mainly peas and in some parts of eastern Cyprus, they add some potates as well. The dish in the picture is mainly potatoes with a little peas added to it. The same they do with fassolia giaxni, some people add potates to it. In any case it looks delecious. BTW do you know what a 'Bloom' is???

[LENA]

Lena, mana mou, mpizeli giaxni is mainly peas and in some parts of eastern Cyprus, they add some potates as well. The dish in the picture is mainly potatoes with a little peas added to it. The same they do with fassolia giaxni, some people add potates to it. In any case it looks delecious. BTW do you know what a 'Bloom' is???

My dear Kafenes...I am cooking since I was 7-8 years old...I do know how to make mpizeli giaxni and I saw some versions of that dish around Cyprus...with potatoes and without with carrots and without with meat/chicken or without ... but never with celery...We put celery only in fasolia=beans...not with peas. I saw that the dish was mainly potatoes but that is up the chef!!!

To be honest I am not sure if Bloom is what I have in mind...will you explain to me?

[kafenes]

Lena, I know there is no cellary in mpizeli giaxni, when I mentioned cellery i was refering to 'Bloom'. A Bloom is a meat casarole dish (chiken or lamb or even pork) with potatoes, carrots, cellery, peas & tomatoe paste. Anyone who has served in the army in the older days will know this dish.
BTW I had a nice dish of fasollia the other day with fresh corriander and carrots and it was absolutely delecious.
One of my many hobbies is also cooking which I do almost every day). I particularly like Turkish & Armenian dishes but also like to experiment with Asian food (Indonesian, Malaysian etc.).

[Get Real!]

Dear Kafene,

When I was a boot camp soldier I was very energetic and naughty so I was made to peel many sacks of potatoes and toss them into cauldrons of water which would be used later for lunch. I often wondered why we called them "Patates Bloum" until one day when I paid attention to the lovely sound the potato made when I'd chuck it in the water!

You’d better believe it because that's where they got that name!

[kafenes]

LOL:)

[LENA]

Lena, I know there is no cellary in mpizeli giaxni, when I mentioned cellery i was refering to 'Bloom'. A Bloom is a meat casarole dish (chiken or lamb or even pork) with potatoes, carrots, cellery, peas & tomatoe paste. Anyone who has served in the army in the older days will know this dish.
BTW I had a nice dish of fasollia the other day with fresh corriander and carrots and it was absolutely delecious.
One of my many hobbies is also cooking which I do almost every day). I particularly like Turkish & Armenian dishes but also like to experiment with Asian food (Indonesian, Malaysian etc.).

Well my dear kafene...I am still a

and by the way I am

female so I dont know much about the food in the army...at least I didnt have to taste it!

[Get Real!]

Btw, thanks to my well wishers, I'm definitely better today.

[LENA]

Btw, thanks to my well wishers, I'm definitely better today.

Glad to hear that Get Real...

[Kristianikos]

haha! thankyou so much for the name ;]
I know it looks like mostly potato and peas, but there is meat in there..somewhere and it was chicken ;p
there isn't much peas because it is leftover from earlier!!!
Us Cypriots always seem to make more food than we can fit in our mouths eh ?