Our market

Tuesday is market day, and we never miss it. In relation to Greek standards it's a relatively small market, but it's big enough for our needs, giving us plenty of variety on every single fruit or vegetable, and after a while you get to know who has the ripest tomatoes or the juiciest peaches.  They only sell produce that is in season, as this is how the majority of Greek people eat. You get things that are out of season in supermarkets, but we tend to buy most of what we are going to consume here, eating seasonal stuff.

There is plenty of shade which is a real bonus during the days of intense heat.

There's the guy who sells plants and flowers, not the most imaginative of stalls, but I have bought things from him at various times.

Melons and watermelons are into season and they are delicious

This stall sells the best cherries in the market, they are ripe and almost black. I buy some every time, and every time I think 'this will be the last time probably', as they will soon be out of season, but we have been lucky so far.

Apricots gallore. Two types here, Bebekou and Anagnostopoulou, Bebekou are my favourites. They will be out of season very soon, so we buy them every time.

Peaches and nectarines are also plentiful and will be around all summer, so we have been having lots of those too. On this stall they sell white and yellow peaches

There is nothing like Greek tomatoes in the summer, so sweet and juicy and we tend to have those for lunch most days.

Peppers of all colours

This stall sells dried fruit

dried herbs

spices

and nuts.

Beans are the summer vegetable par excellence. This stall has four different varieties: Tsaoulia, which are used to make fasolakia, a dish of these beans whole, with tomato sauce, onions and sometimes potatoes and courgettes. The pink ones are handres - you don't eat the outer shell, but only the beans inside, usually as a salad, or as a vegetable on the side.

Tsaoulia again, and then on the right, abelofasoula,  these long thin ones: they are very long and floppy, you could wrap them around your hand like string. They are usually eaten as a salad or as a side dish.

I have never eaten the yellow ones - I asked the stall holder the other day and he said you cook them like tsaoulia, with tomato sauce, I think I will make some soon.

Carrots and melons

More watermelon

Our egg man. There are quite a few stalls selling eggs but we always buy from this one as he has free range eggs

Lots of fruit - summer is the fruit season

Courgettes (some with with their flowers, some without), greens, and something unusual for the summer: cauliflower

Three different types of aubergine, plus round courgettes (my favourites), long courgettes and peppers

another stall that sells aubergines, white ones as well this time

okra and herbs

There are one or two stalls that sell clothes, but not many. The market in Glyfada has an extensive range of stalls with all kinds of different clothes

Dried beans
 

Honey and some jams

Fresh fish

olives.

Basically, everything you would want. While making this post I realised that I did not take any photographs of the huge variety of fresh herbs that are being sold here. They are a big part of Greek cooking.