Took this afternoon to venture into the THIRD grocery store in a town of 8500. This one, called MyMarket, was easily the largest of the three, and had a bunch of stuff that were unexpected — salsa! worcestershire sauce! corn syrup! — but also felt like the most expensive of the three. The Whole Foods of Greek grocery stores, as we will now call it. Got more hard-to-find ingredients, a bunch of single-can Greek beers and ciders to try, all in all a successful stop, and we’ll go back in there when we run into things we want that no one else seems to have.
Stopped into Coffee Island and got a coffee treat, then went into the other bakery by Zimis, called Αργυροσ (Arguros) to try more melomakaronas, and stumbled onto another holiday treat called ladopita which is a Christmas olive oil cake that’s specific to Lefkada. Basically you make a giant pot of olive oil roux, stir in some sugar syrup, coat it in sesame seeds, and then bake it to dry it out. Another sweet with no binding agent that basically just crumbles in your mouth. Nice to find something that’s even more localized than yesterday’s treats!
ladopita | λαδοπιτα | olive oil cake
Cat count: 5 (one on either side of the doors into MyMarket, the swole orange cat from yesterday wandering around by Zimis, the judging cat by the town square, one crossing the street going towards the cultural center)
(gonna start naming them)