Traditional Recipes  July 9, 2011 Rabbit stew is a favorite dish
made with rabbit and can accompany the pasta, potatoes or
rice. It is very complex but very tasty, just because the
flavors are simple and strong. Made with whole onions and
tomatoes or tomato paste, allspice, pepper, bay leaves and
garlic and requires good marinating the meat off with red wine
{More...}   Cretans eat too much fruit. Six times more than they
eat in the Nordic countries. The sufficiency of the island is
evident here. Medlars, Peaches, Nectarines, Quinces, bitter,
prickly pears, pomegranates, grapes, melons, cherries, vanilla,
strawberry, Janeiro, melons, citrus, tangerines. Famous are the
oranges of Chania, Messara Fodele and district. Known as bananas
the coastal Arvi, settlement of Viannos, puny, {More...}
Skaros, cod, sea urchin, anchovies, sardines, smelt, butts,
bream, swordfish monkfish, eels, cuttlefish, octopus, squid, and
missing from the menu of the Cretan diet, also talking about the
island and it could not have the