Ι wish to thank you all for your lovely messages, either private, here or at facebook. Although I still need some time to grieve, I want to share the following post with you in memory of my late brother. The funeral will be tomorrow at Sydney, Australia.
It will take some time until I feel like [...]
One of my favourite summer dishes is fasolakia yahni, a traditional dish with grean beans, which is easy, tasty, cheap and healthy. Yahni is the method of cooking and is similar to a stew or ragout.
In Greece we get two types of green beans. Barbounia, which are flat and tsaoulia, which are round. [...]
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Mahalebi is a cream we make in Cyprus like pudding. The traditional way of flavouring this cream is with rose water, rose syrup and orange blossom water. Back at home my mom served it with spoon sweets and a little syrup on top and my favourite would be with bitter orange spoon sweet.
For a [...]
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Louvi or Fassolia mavrommatika as they are called in Greece are the dried black eyed beans and lahana or seskoula, called in Greece is the Swiss Chard.
Dried legumes are among the most nutritious foods available, because they are a good source of protein and can be a healthy substitute for meat, (which of course, has [...]
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Savoro, which means sour, is a sauce which my mother used to make whenever we had fried fish such as red red mullets (μπαρμπούνι), mullets (κουτσομούρα) or other fish like bogue (γόπα) etc. The combination of vinegar and rosemary is method they used to preserve food back when there were no refrigerators. However, [...]
As there is not much to say about revithosoupa, which is a simple dish, before I tell you how I make it, let’s talk a little about the word «Opaaa!!». I am taking this opportunity because the song which has been voted for the Eurovision song contest is called «OPA». It’s an ethnic song [...]
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Hi everyone. I am back from Cyprus, after visiting my family for a few days. Although the weather was not very good, mostly cloudy and cold, I had a great time. The days passed so quickly and all the days were full, visiting most of my relatives and of course, eating and eating (and again [...]
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Chronia Polla – Happy 2010!! I hope you all had a wonderful time. Unlike Christmas day, we had a wonderful time during these holidays. The weather here in Greece was fantastic and more like Spring (I heard on the weather forecast that it was the hottest New Year day the past hundred years) so with [...]
In Cyprus it is traditional to offer these treats after the wedding, instead of bombonieres (favours), which are offered in Greece. After the church ceremony the couple and the parents of the bride and groom line up for congratulations and one of these wedding cakes are offered to the guests, neatly folded in cellophane [...]
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