What is a relatively easy to cook ancient spartan dish?!

Hi: The ancient Greeks were pretty big on roasted meats. These were generally offered as part of celebrations of victory and to thank the gods. Here is a relatively simple recipe for roast chicken parts - they can be eaten cold, so make sure you have them in a lunch cooler when you bring them to school.

1 lb chicken thighs or legs, you can take the skin off if you want.

Marinade:

1/2 cup red cooking wine (has to be cooking wine because salt is already in it)
2 TBsp water
2 tsp honey
1/2 tsp dried oregano - crushed
Juice of 1/2 small lemon

Marinate chicken overnight in the mix and bake at 350 F for about 45 mins or grill until done - grilling is more authentic. Brush it with marinade as it cooks, but do not add any after the last 15 mins.. (you can do this by pouring it over with a spoon) Dispose of any unused marinade. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

Me - I cook a lot of greek food

"Great attention was paid to the training of the athletae. They were generally trained in the palaestrae, which, in the Grecian states, were distinct places from the gymnasia, though they have been frequently confounded by modern writers. [ PALAESTRA.] Their exercises were superintended by the gymnasiarch, and their diet was regulated by the aliptes According to Pausanias, the athletae did not anciently eat meat, but principally lived upon fresh cheese (turon ektwn talarwn); and Diogenes La?rtius informs us that their original diet consisted of dried figs, moist or new cheese (turoi), and wheat (puroi). The eating of meat by the athletae is said, according to some writers (Paus.), to have been first introduced by Dromeus of Stymphalus, in Arcadia; and, according to to others, by the philosopher Pythagoras, or by an aliptes of that name (Diog. La?rt.). According to Galen (De Val. Tuend.), the athletae, who practised the severe exercises barei, ate pork and a particular kind of bread; and from a remark of Diogenes the Cynic (Diog. La?rt. ), it would appear that in his time beef and pork formed the ordinary diet of the athletae. Beef is also mentioned by Plato (De Rep. ) as the food of the athletae; and a writer quoted by Athenaeus (ix. p402c-d) relates that a Theban who lived upon goats' flesh became so strong, that he was enabled to overcome all the athletae of his time. At the end of the exercises of each day, the athletae were obliged to take a certain quantity of food, which was usually called anagkofagia and anagkotrofia, or biaioj trofhj (Arist. Pol. ); after which, they were accustomed to sleep for a long while. The quantity of animal food which some celebrated athletae, such as Milo, Theagenes, and Astydamas, are said to have eaten, appears to us quite incredible . The food which they ate was usually dry, and is called by Juvenal coliphia"

I suggest you bring dried figs and feta cheese

http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/SportScien…

Deep fried Athenian babies with feta.

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