This week we suggest some glorious vegetables. Ever since the griddle pan appeared in the market, life has become so much easier and healthier too. I made the griddled vegetables and served them as a first course while drinking wine and having a good chat with my guests.

Rocket leaves and feta cheese risotto
Serves 6
25g butter
1 onion, finely chopped

THE VIEW from the breezy northern Aegean, standing on Porto Carras’ terraced vineyards, is breathtaking. There are thousands of man-made and dry-farmed vineyards, which recall their hillside counterparts in Portugal’s River Douro. Yet, the location is Domaine Porto Carras on the Sithonian Peninsula of Halkidiki, northern Greece.

Balm for the scholars

MELISSA, Melissa officinalis or Lemon Balm, is a member of the Lamiacea family, native to southern Europe and grows to lm in well-drained soil. It has lemon scented leaves and produces small white flowers in late summer and grows very well in Cyprus. Its name is derived from the Greek for honeybee and will grow readily from seed or cuttings.

IT’S ON its way. That perfectly spooky side of the fast-looming festive season when disparate folk get together to celebrate, skewered pieces of rubbery cheddar, pineapple chunks, soggy pastries, and dodgy wine in hand.

Two Scots are hoping to build on the island’s golf courses to bring more players to the island

IF YOU are a James Bond, Pink Panther or Indiana Jones buff, chances are you’ve seen Rocky Taylor in action. But you may not recognise him as he would have been posing as Peter Sellers or Sean Connery or Harrison Ford as Taylor is one of the world’s foremost stuntman.

Three rugby clubs have been set up on the island. Our armchair reporter pulls on his ageing boots and rucks in

ENGLAND World Cup winner Johnny Wilkinson once said “I play with a fear of letting people down. That’s what motivates me”. Letting the Nicosia Barbarians down as I jogged onto the pitch to join them on a Wednesday evening training session was not the only thing I feared.

Tucked away by the Limassol market is a gallery that is well worth browsing

‘Criticism is easy, art is difficult’
(Detouches. 1732.)

PEOPLE have, and always will have, set ideas about what is truly beautiful and reasonably acceptable when it comes to buying a painting, sculpture, or a piece of ceramic.