Orthodox Nativity Fast

I am making a feeble effort to keep the advent fast (click here for guidelines). It has brought little culinary joys such as finding how tasty certain olives (dark red soft ones in particular) are on good bread with tomatoes and onion or nothing else.

Buying coconuts here is something of a lottery.  Because they don't refrigerate them they tend to be more or less rancid when you crack them open, so I was very pleased today to find that I had bought my second good one in a row.