Blog: Kalliopi Kitchen by Karen Watts

Chocolate mousse

From Simple to Sublime

Written by Karen Watts Photography by Nicola Rice This last week has seen the island dive into the Summer Season with a huge splash. Rhodes Town and Lindos are welcoming the big wave of people with open arms, tour buses and little trains are making their journeys around the island,

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Burgers & Boys

Written by Karen Watts Burger Photography by Chris Watts  Some of you may remember Josh, the young man who visited Rodos in February and declared his favourite food to be burgers while vociferously hating McDonalds. On that visit we took Josh and his family to the Walk Inn in the

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Herb oil

Summer’s Start

Written by Karen Watts Photography by Chris Watts Welcome to another edition of Kalliopi Kitchen ! Last week saw the official start of Rodos’ Summer Season despite the weather being some what random with temperatures in the UK over the weekend reaching highs of 27 degrees while the island had

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The Lifting of Lent, Lindos Luxury & Leaves

Written by Karen Watts Photography by Chris Watts At midnight last Saturday Greek Orthodox Lent ended with a bang, actually, here in town, many bangs. Christ having risen and brought “the light” back to the world is perhaps the most important occasion in the Greek calendar and is signalled by

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Stuffed. In a Good Way

Written by Karen Watts Photography Chris Watts Kye’s visits are always full. Full of fabulous food, full of good wine and, most importantly, full of laughter. By the time we waved him off at Diagoras last Thursday all three of us were well and truly stuffed. Kye and I both

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Barbie

Written by Karen Watts Photography by Chris Watts Last week began in suitably April fashion with alternate hours of sunshine and rain. Friends in the UK said the weather was the same there. While it has been warm in the day time, the evenings have still been some what chilly

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