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Salt on the Skin: A Morning Ritual That Holds the Day
Sea practices. Care as memory. Sometimes, the best thing I can do after being in the sea is to do nothing at all . I stay with the salt...
Лилия Денисенко
Jun 27, 20251 min read
Лилия Денисенко
Jun 17, 20250 min read
Cucumber Collagen Face Mask – Glow from the Inside Out.
Cucumber Collagen Face Mask I just finished rinsing off this mask in the shower, and I love how smooth my skin feels. I’ve been adding collagen to my green smoothies for a few months now, but it only recently occurred to me to use it in a face mask too. Collagen is said to be incredibly beneficial for skin, hair, and nails. While I can't speak for nails since mine are naturally strong, I can definitely see a difference in my hair — it's fuller and shinier. But the most notice
Лилия Денисенко
Jun 15, 20252 min read
Chicken Souvlaki — Summer on a Skewer.
On the Greek islands, there's a simple joy in grilling souvlaki over an open flame while the scent of oregano and lemon drifts through the air. It's something deeply homey — like a seaside evening or a chat under the vines. Chicken souvlaki is marinated chicken grilled until golden, juicy on the inside, with a light smoky crust. It pairs perfectly with tzatziki — a cooling yogurt sauce with cucumber and herbs. 🌿 You will need: For the souvlaki: 700 g chicken breast, cut int
Лилия Денисенко
Jun 15, 20251 min read
Spanakopita – a Pie Filled with Greens and Sunshine
Sometimes all it takes is the scent of fresh dill or the delicate crackle of pastry to bring you straight to a Greek village kitchen, where breakfast comes not by the clock but by the aroma from the oven. Spanakopita is that very pie – baked by grandmothers in Corfu and across mainland Greece. It holds everything we love: fresh spinach, salty feta, fragrant herbs, and whisper-thin phyllo dough. Delicious warm or cold, it fits just as well on a picnic as on your quiet afterno
Лилия Денисенко
Jun 15, 20251 min read
Moussaka - the heart of Greek cuisine, baked in one pan
On the islands, moussaka is almost like our Sunday pie: it brings the family together, fills the house with the aromas of cinnamon and tomatoes, and lingers in the memory for a long time. Its taste is like an open window on the coast, where the wind brings the smell of fried eggplant, homemade sauce and freshly whipped béchamel. This is not just a casserole. This is Greece in a spoon . Tart, spicy, tender. And, like everything important, made with patience. 🫒 What you will
Лилия Денисенко
Jun 10, 20252 min read
Avgolemono Soup - Lemon Tenderness on a Spoon
When the clouds descend on Corfu and the sea becomes steely and quiet, you want something simple and enveloping. Avgolemono soup is not just food, it is Greek comfort in a plate that you keep in your memory from childhood. It’s warm, lemony, velvety – like grandma’s voice calling from the terrace: “Έλα να φας, παιδί μου!” Cooked in homemade chicken broth , with egg and lemon juice, with rice and a spoonful of real extra virgin olive oil , this soup gently warms and invig
Лилия Денисенко
Jun 10, 20252 min read
Melitzanosalata - smoky tenderness of eggplant
In Greece, they love simple. Where a few honest ingredients make a dish deeper than it seems at first glance. Melitzanosalata is like a conversation by the sea: a little garlic, a little lemon, good eggplant, and all this - with a drop ofextra virgin olive oil . In Corfu, this sauce is served as a meze – with homemade pita bread, next to roasted vegetables, or just with bread. It tastes like the end of a hot day – warm, smoky, rich and fresh all at once. 🧄 Ingredients: 2 m
Лилия Денисенко
Jun 10, 20251 min read
Greek Dressing - A Little Sunshine in a Jar
Every drop of this dressing is the essence of Greek cuisine : the aroma of oregano, the tartness of lemon, the pungency of garlic, a little honey - like a ray of sunshine, and, of course, extra virgin olive oil , thick, golden, real. I often cook it in Corfu - in a hurry, when summer calls to the table under a tree. It goes with everything: with salads, with bread, with fried vegetables. But most importantly, it unites tastes , like the Greeks unite their family at dinner.
Лилия Денисенко
Jun 10, 20251 min read
Pastitsio: Greek Casserole with a Homey Flavor
Sometimes all of Greece fits into a single baking dish. Pastitsio is the dish that appears on the table when the family gathers, voices hum, and the sunny island breeze blows outside the windows. This is not just a recipe - it is a tradition passed down with warmth, oil, spices and time. And today in the Aegean Notebooks - this is exactly the case. We are preparing pastitsio as they do in Corfu, with real olive oil, which comes from a small farm with a view of the sea. 🫒 W
Лилия Денисенко
Jun 10, 20252 min read
Roasted Tomatoes with extra virgin olive oil and Thyme.
Warm taste of summer in Greek cuisine Today, Aegean Notebooks is a flavor that is hard to put into words: fresh tomatoes , generously drizzled with extra virgin olive oil , with a slight tartness of thyme , warmed in the oven until lightly caramelized. A real pleasure in simplicity. This recipe comes from those days when the Corfu sun is already setting towards the horizon and the kitchen smells of sweet tomatoes, herbs and tart greens... Ingredients: 450 g cherry or grap
Лилия Денисенко
Jun 8, 20251 min read
When the road calls, we choose the path with care for ourselves and the world.
Travel Shop — From the notes of the "Aegean Notebooks" Sometimes a journey starts with something simple – the desire to go. Just to set...
Лилия Денисенко
Jun 6, 20251 min read
A Culinary Day in a Greek Family
From the "Notebook of Taste" | Aegean Notebooks Sometimes, to truly understand a place, you just need to... eat with its people. In Corfu, I didn't go to a restaurant, I went to a house. A house with a view of olive groves, with an ancient press, with the aroma of focaccia coming out of the oven like a warm embrace. I was met by Yorgos, not just the owner, but the keeper of the island's taste. We went to the market together: we tried cheese straight from the counter, inhaled
Лилия Денисенко
Jun 5, 20252 min read
Taste of Corfu - step by step
Gastronomic walk through the old town Sometimes love for a place begins with a smell. With cinnamon in morning powder, with the light...
Лилия Денисенко
Jun 5, 20251 min read
One-day cruise to Paxos and Antipaxos: like breathing in the sea.
There are places you can't get to by car. Only by the waves, by the wind. Only with a heart ready for new discoveries. The islands of...
Лилия Денисенко
Jun 5, 20251 min read
Half a Day - Like Breathing. An Excursion Where It's Easy to Be Yourself
Paleokastritsa and Corfu Old Town Sometimes a few hours are enough to feel the island with your whole body. To remember the light on the...
Лилия Денисенко
Jun 5, 20252 min read
Afionas is a village where the sea meets the sky.
Sometimes a place captivates you not because of its sights, but because of the way the air sounds there. Afionas is one of these villages. It stands on a green hill above the Ionian Sea, overlooking two beaches at once: Agios Georgios and Arillas. But the main thing is not the panorama. The main thing is the peace. When you walk along the narrow streets between the white houses and the blazing bougainvilleas, you are not "looking around." You are returning. Ancient olive tree
Лилия Денисенко
Jun 5, 20252 min read
I'm in love with this island!!!
Sometimes one look, one scent of the sea is enough to understand - you are home. Corfu has become for me more than just a place on the...
Лилия Денисенко
Jun 5, 20251 min read
The road into the island
Sometimes, to really hear the island, you have to go away from the coast. Into the depths. Where the cypresses are tall as candles. Where...
Лилия Денисенко
Jun 4, 20251 min read
Dukades: a village where time flows differently.
If Corfu is an island of light, then Doukades is its shadow. Soft, warm, subdued. The one you want to enter to exhale. Where is it: The village is hidden in the green hills of northwest Corfu, not far from Paleokastritsa. There are no beaches here, no tourist streets, but a different Greece – the one that lives on the veranda, in shorts, with a cup of coffee. Why come here: – To walk along cobbled streets where houses are over a hundred years old, and every stone seems like
Лилия Денисенко
Jun 4, 20251 min read
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