Spoon Sweets in Season

Spring

• Green walnut made with immature green walnuts
  
• Pistachio made with immature pistachios
  
• Rose petal on the southern island of Crete

Summer

• Apricot
  
• Cherry
  
• Fig, using the immature green fruit
  
• Peach
  
• Plum
  
• Rose petal, specialties at this time of year from the island of Chios and areas of the Peloponnese
  
• Sour cherry
  
• Tomato, using small tomatoes
  
• Watermelon, using the rind of early season young melons

Late Summer

• Eggplant, using small eggplant
  
• Fig, using ripe figs
  
• Grape
  
• Pear
  
• Raisin, a specialty on Crete

Fall

• Apple, generally using firikia, a small oblong apple, specialty of Mt. Pilio
  
• Pumpkin, from Naoussa
  
• Quince

Winter

• Bergamot
  
• Bitter orange (small), whole when immature, pieces of rind when ripe
  
• Kumquat, from Corfu
  
• Orange

• desserts and sweets
• traditional greek cooking
• seasonal cooking