The grandmother grew up with the greens!

In the villages of Vrisinas it grows in quantities in the thorny vegetarian ασκόλιμπρος, or goula with γογγυλοειδή root…
and were consumed by hundreds of years by the Cretans “who know the nutritional and therapeutic values”. But today, the old inhabitants of the Ambelaki and the other villages of the historic mountain, used this period to bring it from the field, to cook, to put it as the food on their table and to consume it…
However, the plant is requested from other areas of Crete, which does not grow “do and thrive and the parties to them”.
Of course, in almost all the houses of the residents at Ambelaki, the ασκόλιμπρος is one of the most delicious foods of Crete “know the grass all”, as in other settlements Condition, Selli, Γουλεδιανά, Route and the important thing is that the consumption and the healthful properties they know and the young people who reside outside the village, and regularly, having learned “the local development”, rushing and collecting…
“ONCE A MONTH MEAT…”
The old restless grandmother of Vrisinas Helen Τζονεβράκη 96 years old today and with a multitude of grandchildren, as… specialized in the traditional foods of the cretan land and in cooking them, he knows, and when they reach the home of her daughter Katina Βουρβαχάκη, at Ambelaki, where he resides, and takes the… everything from cleaning the grass, washing and baking. greens ambelaki diet treasure
Grandma Helen is washing the vegetables to get always in the pot for boiling
After all, in the merciless years that he lived and was raised in Selli, “the grass was the main food of us.”
I said, indignant, for the new way of modern nutrition which has been consolidated: “From a girl I was going to take the Vrisinas and στσι rivers and the picking! With chi γούλες and the other greens were raised and we held, and over-indebted young people γατέχουνε only the skewers and chi pizza. The world τότεσάς was σίντερο and subpar γίνηκενε decay. Greens τρώγαμενε to ανατραφούμε and once a month, on Sunday, of meat… to be subpar for the girls to find γούλες! Neither chi γατένε but don’t go already because they broke up nails-n-τωνε. There have made him! For this gaze and hospitals was stuffed with sick people…”
ΘΑΥΜΑΤΟΥΡΓΟ MEDICINE
Beyond the deliciousness of the food, the kind grandma insists on the hygiene of the ασκόλιμπρου that except for the foliage are cooked and the roots of the “meat and is very nice food”. But and the download of the broth from the boil of the χορταρικού is characterized by traditional medicine as a “miracle drug in the treatment of kidney and elsewhere”.
The thorny vegetable that the collection requires attention and is painful, this period for those who do not know or do not have the time, is available in the street markets of Crete for 4 euros a kilo and is causing demand. But, you didn’t miss this period and people from other regions of Crete, mainly from the city of Chania, which arrive regularly in the area of Vrisinas and collect seed from the plant to the carry in their own fields and to develop the sites.
The rapid increase of fatal cases of the era, mobilised the population to refer to the medicines of nature in Crete. Besides, as has been demonstrated, the nature is a doctor!
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