I have made a Revani recipe before but there are a lot of variations to this recipe, each one having a character of its own. A blogger friend of mine in Facebook sent me a picture of a dessert she ate when she visited Greece but could not remember the name and wanted me [...]
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I am really disappointed that I missed the train for Germany, as I was planning to participate but I lost track of the time, so my Pigs in a blanket, will have to wait before I lose another train and I am now heading right away to Paris. Paris is one of the few cities [...]
Awards It’s been ages ago (early December) since my friend P.G. of My Kitchen Stories, has awarded me with the Hard Working Food Blogger, Award and it’s not that I forgot about it but I did not find much time to blog about it with all the work which has to be done with BloggerAid. [...]
The modern Greek word is arakas αρακάς. Mpizeli in Greek μπιζέλι (or pizeli as it is pronounced in Cyprus), comes from the italian word pisello - in latin pisellum pisum a name which originally was Greek from the ancient Greek pissos – pisson (αρχαία ελληνική πίσος ή πίσον (αντιδάνειο) and borrowed back from us. [...]
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I have the pleasure to announce that I am going to be this month’s host of Think Spice, created by Sunita, of Sunita’s World. When I contacted Sunita way back in May, last year, asking if I could host one of the events, Sunita gladly replied to me that I would host in February. My [...]
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Focaccia is very similar to the Greek flatbread named lagana , which I have posted some time ago. As Wikipedia describes focaccia, the basic recipe is thought by some to have originated with the Etruscans or ancient Greeks, but it is now known as a delicacy of the Ligurian cuisine. The only difference between the [...]
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This morning when I visited my friend Rosa, of Rosa’s Yummy Yums, she had a fun meme which she saw on a French blog, asking bloggers to post a couple of photos when they were young. I found it quite amusing so here are a few photos when I was a child. I was crying [...]
I don’t like making New Year’s resolutions but I know that I am back to healthy cooking again and I’ll try to keep cooking as healthy as possible. After all that butter which was consumed during December and gaining a few kilos, I haven’t yet made anything sweet this month and although I am not [...]
I have been following Ruth’s Presto Pasta Nights since I started blogging, more than a year ago and it was and is one of my favourite Food Events. Pasta is so versatile that all you need is little imagination and little time to create a delicious meal. It is amazing how pasta transforms around the [...]
I am meeting Joan, Val, Giz and some other friends in Warsaw. We shall do some sightseeing by visiting the Stare Miastro, in the Old Town and to the Lazienki Park, where there is a statue of Chopin, who is Polish and imagine that there we are listening to some of his lovely music. Unfortunately [...]
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