In Greece they say that we make pies out of anything.
Almost anyone who has eaten Greek food is familiar with that wonderful Greek specialty spanakopita, or spinach pie, or the most renowned of Greek sweets, baklava. While one dish is savory and the other sweet, both are recognizable from their baked-up, golden, crispy appearance, a [...]
Last Tuesday when I went to the farmers’ market, I bought lavraki (sea bass) as I wanted to make a recipe I had bookmarked some days ago from Nancy Gaifallia’s blog in About.com. I am sure that you all know who Nancy Gaifallia is, but for those readers who are just beginning to explore [...]
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Cooking for a family of five involves a lot of cooking and baking and it is sometimes difficult to please them all. A winner dish in my family is patates lemonates sto fourno, which is a side dish you can serve both with meat of fish and some people even love it as [...]
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If you ever go to Cyprus you will be amazed by the variety of mezedes they will serve you. They start bringing plates after plates, after plates, as starters.
The best hoummous dip I’ve ever had was at my nephew’s restaurant in Cyprus, where it is one of the many mezedes they [...]
I do not remember ever mentioning our pet. We have a Siamese cat named Lisa and she is ten years old.
She is also a Math genius.
You must be wondering what Lisa has to do with revithokeftedes. In a way she does because my love for cats grew when I was about 10 years [...]
My children don’t eat a lot of fruit except for my daughter. They boys are rather lazy and eat fruit such as bananas or grapes (only when they are washed) so I have to peel them to get them to eat some. What they like very much is milkshakes and sometimes instead of [...]
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As I said yesterday, I had made double the recipe as with the remaining dough I wanted to make one of our favourite flatbreads: Lagana. Originally it was an unleavened bread but eventually a little yeast was added.
Αncient Greeks colonized Southern Italy and Sicily between 1800 to 500 b.C. and then in [...]
Koulouri, is a round shaped bread product, covered with sesame seeds, crunchy outside and soft inside. It is one of our healthiest snacks as it is low in fat but very nutritional and most dietitians / nutritionists will tell you to eat one for breakfast. In addition, it is very cheap, as it costs [...]
The best time to make palouzes is late August or during September but as I wanted to share this with you in time, last Tuesday when I went to the farmers’ market, the grapes were at a reasonable price so I bought some sultana grapes to make this dessert. However, any type of grapes black [...]
When we went to Sparta I brought along a few things such as pasto and loukaniko, which I hope to be posting about soon, fresh eggs and honey.
My sisters-in-law who live in villages just a few miles away from Sparta, have houses with big gardens with lots of flowers and grow their own vegetables [...]
