What are you smoking? March 2024

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SidStavros
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Ladies and Gentlemen, yesterday was a big feast for us here in Greece, it's called ''Clean Monday" so we count 40 days till the Easter. According to the tradition we eat specific kind of food, here is a typical GR menu for this day:

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1) Taramas (cod roe, missing from the photo, my wife's fault)
2) Lagana (bread without leaven, according to the custom is cut by hand)
3) Barley with seafood (sepia, cuttlefish, etc.)
4) Paper towels, salt and pepper
5) Wine (red here)
6) Beans with sauce
7) Fava beans
8) Dumplings
9) Halvas Chocolate
10) Ηalva Vanilla
​11) Salad
12) Filtered water

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I am smoking Peter Stokkebye - Luxury Twist Flake (No. 402)
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SidStavros wrote: Tue Mar 19, 2024 3:08 pm Ladies and Gentlemen, yesterday was a big feast for us here in Greece, it's called ''Clean Monday" so we count 40 days till the Easter. According to the tradition we eat specific kind of food, here is a typical GR menu for this day:

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1) Taramas (cod roe, missing from the photo, my wife's fault)
2) Lagana (bread without leaven, according to the custom is cut by hand)
3) Barley with seafood (sepia, cuttlefish, etc.)
4) Paper towels, salt and pepper
5) Wine (red here)
6) Beans with sauce
7) Fava beans
8) Dumplings
9) Halvas Chocolate
10) Ηalva Vanilla
​11) Salad
12) Filtered water

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I am smoking Peter Stokkebye - Luxury Twist Flake (No. 402)
That's wonderful, Sid! Hope your Easter Season is blessed and joyful.
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Watch City Deluxe Crumb Cut in this lovely ol' 1923 Pete...a classy tobacco for a classy pipe. The WCDCC is ancient and very crispy, but still classy. :D
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Big-n-Burley in a bored-out Riviera pot

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LC Vanilla in this same pipe.
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SidStavros wrote: Tue Mar 19, 2024 3:08 pm Ladies and Gentlemen, yesterday was a big feast for us here in Greece, it's called ''Clean Monday" so we count 40 days till the Easter. According to the tradition we eat specific kind of food, here is a typical GR menu for this day:

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1) Taramas (cod roe, missing from the photo, my wife's fault)
2) Lagana (bread without leaven, according to the custom is cut by hand)
3) Barley with seafood (sepia, cuttlefish, etc.)
4) Paper towels, salt and pepper
5) Wine (red here)
6) Beans with sauce
7) Fava beans
8) Dumplings
9) Halvas Chocolate
10) Ηalva Vanilla
​11) Salad
12) Filtered water

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I am smoking Peter Stokkebye - Luxury Twist Flake (No. 402)
Oh man :thumbs: :king:
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Had another bowl of Friar's Bayou in the Tuesday cob before dinner. Now, it's after-dinner smoke time. Haunted Bookshop in the Tuesday cob.
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Peter Heinrich Dark Strong Flake / Savinelli Capri Root bent
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