No kitchen is complete without a bottle of Extra Virgin Olive Oil and if for one reason or another you are not using Olive Oil, it’s never too late to start and also now is your chance to win one. Olive oil is a healthy fat and most health-conscious people choose olive oil over [...]
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Remember the Scarlet Pesto I posted about a year ago? Well this recipe is from then and it is also included in my list of recipes which I added on New Year’s day, in order to remind myself that I should post these recipes. Chicken Kiev is a popular dish of boneless chicken breast [...]
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It’s been quite a long time I hadn’t been at the farmers’ market as the past weeks we have been going to Nafplion on Tuesdays, when it’s the day we have our farmers’ market. Last Tuesday when we visited we stayed overnight and I knew that on Wednesdays there is a farmers’ market in Nafplion [...]
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Here we are again with another roundup of Creative Concoctions, with savoury recipes using olive oil. Thank you all of you for participating with your wonderful, creative recipes. Meenakshi, of Ponderings of a Working Mom, has made a healthier version of Dal (lentils) – (oriya ishtyle) using olive oil. In India food is usually cooked [...]
Continue reading about Creative Concoctions #4 : Cooking with Olive Oil – Roundup & Voting
I have always found desserts with sponge cake exciting because there is so much you can do with it to meet your taste bud’s satisfaction. After making the sponge you can experiment in so many ways and with so many different ingredients and flavour. It’s been quite a long time since I last posted a [...]
We came back yesterday from a visit to Nafplion again. I suppose now that the house is progressing we shall be visiting on a regular basis at least once a week in order to see some things on the spot. This means that I will be having less time to visit and post recipes but [...]
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Greek Cuisine has a lot of simple but delicious recipes and home-cooked meals are defininitely healthier as you know what ingredients you use and there are no preservatives and, when compared to dining out, much cheaper. Now that our children will be living on their own and have minimum cooking experience, they have asked me [...]
One of my favourite Greek herbs is kafkalithres. It’s scientific name is Tordylium Apulum. I quote from «Food in the Ancient World from A to Z», by Andrew Dalby, page 173. «Hartwort (Tordylium spp.) genus of wild plants, used in Greece in drugs and medicinal wines and also as pot herbs and culinary herbs. Tordylium [...]
Continue reading about Kagianas me Kafkalithres – (Tordylium Apulum) Hartwort
I’ve been looking in my recipes file to find more easy recipes to post and, of course, I have a lot of pasta recipes which I have never posted as well as a lot of chicken recipes, as we don’t eat beef/veal, pork or lamb often but still have a few of them as well. [...]
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The weather is very stubborn this year and the Spring weather seems like a shy girl, who doesn’t want to come out from her shell and is hiding away and is grumpy and bad tempered. The beaches are empty, it is windy and the temperatures are below normal for this time of the year. [...]
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