A Greek Surprise and Bees

I received a treat package from Greece in yesterdays mail. I am a big lover of Greek food and I make a lot of Greek recipes for my family. When I was young and could not buy phyllo at the store, I made my own. I know a lot about Greek cooking so I was especially delighted to be introduced to something knew by one of my favorite bloggers, The Greek Witch. She sent me an assortment of candies, some lucky charms and a wonderful amulet for my house.

There was a bag of what she described as dakos. They look like big stale bagels. I was fascinated. I had never heard of these before. She was thoughtful enough to tell me how to prepare them. I took two out of the package and moistened them with a bit of tomato juice and set them on a plate to begin to soften a bit.




Then I threw all the tomatoes I could find into an oven proof bowl, sprinkled oregano, thyme salt and pepper and drizzled olive oil over them.


I roasted them on low heat for several hours. Then I pulsed them in my food processor to make a semi chunky sauce which I spread on top of the dakos.


I was out of feta having just used it all in a salad dressing, so I sprinkled fresh mozzarella over the tomatoes. I added Kalamata olives stuffed with garlic, chopped cucumber, shredded basil and diced parsley Then I drizzled some of the feta dressing over the top.


I added diced red onions and drizzled a bit of olive oil over the top. Super yum!!!! OMG...these are my new favorite things. There are endless possibilities for these. Thank you so much my fellow blogger for introducing me to something new and wonderful! These are like the best bruschetta you could ever eat.

Yesterday I was playing around in the garden and making some arrangements. Not much is blooming yet so I bought some daffodils to sit around for color. I went back into the house for a while and when I returned to the garden a short time later, I heard a faint humming sound.




Bees!


Bee Butts


Click for a closer look. The bees were a bit crazed.


They were frenetically flying from stamen to stamen.


This is the first pollen of the season and they wanted it!


Are you looking at me?


Twin buzzing.

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