Dear Cate, I'm Clio and I'm from Greece.I really
like your blog, very good work.I found the Greece section -LRB-!!!!) and I wanted to give you some info about the
avgolemono soup recipe.Here, in Greece, we don't cook this soup plain with just rice, well, I certainly haven't heard it before.We have chicken
avgolemono soup which is very popular, and there is a hole range of
avgolemono recipes, soups and casserole dishes.
Avgolemono is a sauce, which is done at the end and finishes the recipe with eggs (avgo in greek) and lemons.For example, we have «lamp with lettuce
avgolemono, meatballs
avgolemono soup, zuccnini stuffed with mince
avgolemono, an easter soup with liver chopped and fresh onions, very traditional, we also have dolmades, this is turkish dish, it is
like little parcels made by cabbage leaves that you steam a little and then are filled with mince, rice and herbs, and
avgolemono.And many others.
Pho is fine (and pronounced almost
like «fah»),
avgolemono sounds to me
like a soup for lawyers, and cock - a-leekie takes us back to Scotland again — and, surprisingly, prunes.