This is just a sample menu to give you an idea of the types of dishes the host cooks. Your menu will vary according to seasonal availability.
Melitzanosalata – smoked eggplant with yogurt, parsley and extra virgin olive oil or Traditional pie with seasonal vegetables, cheese, yogurt, milk, fresh herbs and spicesAmbelonas’ green salad with seeds, raisins and a rose petals, extra vergin olive oil & pure red wine vinegar sauceDolce garbo, slowly cooked pork with onions, rosemary white wine and spices (served with aromatic rice) or Fresh Fish “BIANCO” - slowly cooked in white wine with garlic and parsley along with potatoes Ambelonas' syrup cake served with caramelized carrots, strained yogurt and mulberry with bergamot jamVasiliki, a passionate food lover who has loved cooking for decades, has undertaken a search for forgotten flavors. After exploring historical sources and experimenting with local ingredients she published a cookbook with traditional local recipes that bring back the cooking secrets and flavors of previous generations on her native island of Corfu. Your Traveling Spoon experience takes place on a hilltop estate alongside a vineyard, where wine and olive cultivation has existed for more than 400 years.
Vasiliki received her undergraduate and masters degrees in the United States, and then worked as a Computer System Analyst for 25 years. Vasiliki has a daughter and granddaughter who live in Athens and will be part of the experience when they are visiting. Vasiliki’s husband is a civil engineer as well as a passionate sailor and wine maker.
"On the island of Corfu is a place about 20 minutes from the port that'll knock your socks off with delicious Corfiot food served under a grape arbor. Vasiliki, educated in the US and employed there for 25 years, returned home to Corfu to re-discover the best of its culinary history and make it available to us travelers. Absolutely scrumptious! She offers cooking classes or just a meal. Hard for eight of us to make our minds up, she offered tastings of most of her menu which we shared. Beautiful day, awesome hospitality. Did I mention the great wine yet? Our ship docked on Corfu on a Saturday, a day she normally takes off, but she graciously agreed to open for us when asked through Traveling Spoon. Probably wouldn't have happened without them."
"Vasiliki hosted me at her scenic mountaintop vineyard that has been in her family for several hundred years on the Greek island of Corfu. She is literally the women that wrote the book on Corfiot Cuisine. We enjoyed vintage cheese platters to start, her own vineyard made white and red Rose' wine. She taught more in a few hours about cooking then I had learned in my entire life prior. She even gave me a free copy of her cook book, which I have since used already, and she has her own vintage olive oil, jams and wine for sale. Vasiliki has done years of research on Corfiot cuisine and has her own family recipes that simply cannot be acquired anywhere else. It was the most amazing culinary experience I've ever been to! A must do, on Corfu Island!"
