I feel embarrassed that I have never posted this dish before. Although this is a staple dish in all Greek households and I cook it very often, I have somehow forgotten to post about it.
Fasolia (phaseolus lunatus) gigantes, meaning “giant” are similar to elephant beans, lima beans or butter beans, but if you can find [...]
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If you can get fresh anchovies, called gavros in Greek, forget those canned, salty ones and you must definitely try this dish.
Gavros is one of my favourite small fishes because it is not only cheap but it also tastes good and of course a good source of heart-healthy Omega 3 fatty oil acids [...]
Vassilopita
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Most of us have a hard time deciding what to cook for the holidays.
Here are a few ideas and hope this will help a few of you.
Psaronefri with prune sauce
Stuffed Turkey Roulade
Stuffed Turkey (Cypriot recipe)
Cottage pie with your leftovers
Roasted lamb or goat
Beef in Dark Beer and Pumpkin Sweet and Sour Sauce
Pork Loin Stuffed and [...]
This month’s Tried & Tested is featuring Kevin of Closet Cooking. This event was an original idea by Zlamushka of Spicy Kitchen. Each month a blogger is featured and we have to choose one of his/her recipes and recreate it and blog about it. This month’s host, is Hema of Salt [...]
Kaltsounia or Kalitsounia, is probably the most known Cretan recipe. Remember my post on Calzone where I mentioned the connection of the two names?
Kaltsounia can be either with a sweet or savory filling and the pastry shell differs in each case. Savory Kaltsounia use a pastry phyllo in which they add raki and for filling [...]
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The past few years of blogging I’ve read a lot of posts where bloggers talk about their love for Greek yoghurt. However, Greek yoghurt is not availble everywhere around the world and I remember one recent post I read, where the daughter/mother living near the Canadian-American borders, respectively and the daughter would ask her mother [...]
I was really curious to try an original Italian Pizza when we were in Rome, but I must say I was rather disappointed. Unfortunately we did not have the luxury of time to try everything we wanted, as after walking for hours and hours every day, when it was lunch time and were feeling really [...]
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Many people shudder at the thought of cooking or eating liver but in Greece we eat it a lot. I love liver, especially, chicken livers, however, I don’t cook it very often as chicken giblets are high in cholesterol and only cook it two or three times a year, mostly during Easter.
Before cooking it, I [...]
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Summer Escapes part VII - Lakonia: Elafonissos, Plytra, Archangelos and Monvemvassia
During our last visit to Sparti, we had the chance to visit Southern Laconia, see some new places and revisit some others we had visited in the past. There are so many places one can visit but a one-day excursion is not enough to [...]
Continue reading about Ampelofassoula (String Bean Salad) and Marida (Picarel)
