I've been a good girl today

I'm feeling very virtuous today. After waking late and spending all the morning messing around, which was very un-virtuous of me, I finally got a move on it. I cleaned my room, finally finished september's accounts (my sister owes me money, yay!) and went shopping. I try to go to the market at least every other saturday. I go to Neos Kosmos market, which one of the biggest and best markets in Athens. It's so big, I've never walked the whole thing.

I love going to the market. I love seeing all the fresh fruit and vegetables laid out on the stalls. I love the noise and bustle. The housewives and grandmas squeezing the tomatoes - I always try to emulate them, because they know what they're about - and the farmers shouting out their wares and often humourous banter between each other. Being a young woman, I usually get lots of smiles and friendly compliments, which is always pleasant.

So today, I went with an agenda to get fresh fish, tomatoes, fruit and whatever caught my attention. I got a lovely huge fish with a strange name I've already forgot - I'm useless like that - and some fresh spinach, because there were piles of it everywhere and it looked lovely. Tomatoes were harder. Tomato season is ending, so all the tomatoes were looking pathetic and expensive. 1 euro for a kilo of tomatoes is way too much! Especially when they look like that! Fruit were even harder, because it's an inbetween season for the fruits I like. It's too late for nectarines and too early for oranges. The market was full of apples and pears which I'm not keen on. I compromised with stafida grapes. I also got some roquette, because it was looking good, some purslane, because I've been meaning to try out it, and other bits and bobs.

And after that big hike, I went to the supermarket to get the things I couldn't get in the market: milk, feta cheese, white wine for cooking and gigantes beans (because they were out at the market).

And THEN I started cooking. You see why I'm feeling all virtuous today? I cooked the fish in the oven with potatoes. It was delicious! And now I'm busy baking a spinach pie. Yum, yum.

AND I plan on continuing on being virtuous tomorrow too. I've got more cooking planned (brownies and gigantes beans in the oven), as well as more cleaning. Also it's about time we put the carpet down in the living room and re-arranged our clothes. It's a whole big undertaking putting up our summer clothes and taking our winter ones down.

I get tired just thinking about it!