Paniyiri
It was the Paniyiri Festival (pronounced: pan-ee-year-ee) this weekend! Paniyiri is a Greek word meaning gathering or coming together. I went with my friends Ed and Claire, it was a great afternoon with good food, fun and dance.
We started the day off with a bit of lunch, there were a crazy amount of people at the festival and food places everywhere serving all sorts of delicious treats. Haloumi (fried cheese with mint), kalamari (squid), moussaka (an eggplant dish), melomakarona (a honey and nut covered cookie), and baklava (nut filled flakey pastry) to name a few dishes being served. I especially enjoyed the haloumi and honey puffs.
After a while we got up to do some walking around to see what else there was to see. At the top of the hill away from the main food area there was a honey puff eating contest. Honey puffs are small Timbit like pastries covered in honey and served warm. The aim of the contest was to see how many you could eat without using your hands within one minute.
Heading further in and escaping from the crowds we went into the Greek Club building where they were Greek cooking demonstrations and displays featuring these eggs. They're emu eggs that are carefully carved to varying depths to allow more or less light to shine through.
The cooking demonstrations that we got to see demonstrated how to make baklava and melomakarona. The recipes were quite simple to make with ingredients that can be found in almost any grocery store.
The festival went on until late into the night but we left around 5ish. By then the sun was setting and it was getting dark, the sun sets so early in Brisbane.
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