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	<title>Life in Crete.</title>
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	<description>A couples attempt at self-sufficiency and starting a business on a Greek Island. http://www.Aretecrete.com</description>
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		<title>Courgette and Poppyseed Cake/Muffins.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grown in abundance and easier than you imagined, courgettes can sometime become the victim of their own success. All too often forgotten amongst their magnificent leaves doomed to become the monster in the veg patch, the yummy little darlings soon outstay their welcome. It&#8217;s not surprising that, after your 20th kilo, treacherous thoughts  of  &#8220;how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aretecrete.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5365489&amp;post=239&amp;subd=aretecrete&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mediterranean Kitchen Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must take this opportunity to recommend this book to the novice Mediterranean vegetable gardeners, like myself who are finding it difficult to source a well presented and complete guide to growing a kitchen garden  in this wonderful climate. This is the first book of it&#8217;s kind I have found in English and though I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aretecrete.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5365489&amp;post=202&amp;subd=aretecrete&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EOT &#8211; licence to let.</title>
		<link>http://aretecrete.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/getting-our-eot-licence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Do you really need an EOT Licence?       According to the Greek National Tourist Organisation, know in Greece as EOT (Elliniko Organismo Tourismo) if you rent your Greek property for holiday use, i.e. not long-term rental of over 3 months, then you must by law have an EOT licence. So if you take money from anyone, that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aretecrete.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5365489&amp;post=187&amp;subd=aretecrete&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Papoutsakia.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fancy footwear for dinner tonight? In this post I am going to cover one of my favorite aubergine dishes, Papoutsakia (παπουτσάκια). But lets start with a little appertizer of history with a side dressing of Greek.  The French call them &#8220;aubergine&#8221; which comes from Arabic, the Americans call them &#8220;egg-plant&#8221; because the small white ones resemble eggs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aretecrete.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5365489&amp;post=163&amp;subd=aretecrete&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Homegrown Salad</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tomatoes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr J and I do love our food, our favourite saying is that whilst some people eat to live, we live to eat. Over the past few years we&#8217;ve developed a habit, which to others might seem slightly annoying, of analysing what&#8217;s on the plate at every mealtime. Take for example this beautiful salad, prepared and eaten [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aretecrete.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5365489&amp;post=150&amp;subd=aretecrete&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tomatoes.</title>
		<link>http://aretecrete.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/red-ripe-tomatoes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Growing tomatoes organically in Crete has been more of challenge than I had anticipated, but this year, being my third growing season, I have produced the best to date. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aretecrete.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5365489&amp;post=124&amp;subd=aretecrete&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What to plant &amp; when.</title>
		<link>http://aretecrete.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/what-to-plant-when/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being a novice gardener, with only my childhood memories of Mam&#8217;s green fingered wizardry, I found the biggest problem I had, when trying to start my own vegetable garden in Crete, was timing. As any good comedian will tell you, timing is&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..crucial. After weeks of care and attention, I&#8217;d lovingly snuggle my little seedlings into their prepared bed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aretecrete.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5365489&amp;post=98&amp;subd=aretecrete&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Autumn Harvest</title>
		<link>http://aretecrete.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/80/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember reading somewhere the definition of Autumn as the season between Summer and Winter, it must be the dullest of definitions for such a glorious season. The Greek word for Autumn is Φθινόπωρο pronounced fthi&#8230;no&#8230;po&#8230;ro, literally translated as the decline of income. The French used to call it Harvest before they and the rest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aretecrete.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5365489&amp;post=80&amp;subd=aretecrete&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beans in a bog roll.</title>
		<link>http://aretecrete.wordpress.com/2008/11/25/beans-in-a-bog-roll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  I was recently given 11 shiny runner beans and having such a small amount I did not want to lose any to the dreaded garden pests or indeed one of our free range Bantams, who occasionally break into the garden for lunch. So I decided to give them a fighting chance from the very [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aretecrete.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5365489&amp;post=27&amp;subd=aretecrete&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quince Jelly</title>
		<link>http://aretecrete.wordpress.com/2008/11/16/quince-jelly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  They dined on mince and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand on the edge of the sand They danced by the light of the moon. ~ &#8220;The Owl and the Pussycat,&#8221; by Edward Lear        The recipe   This is exactly how I make quince jelly. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aretecrete.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5365489&amp;post=13&amp;subd=aretecrete&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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