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This is one of my favourite Apple Pies, which I have been making since I was single. I am sure that I have posted this recipet in the past, as the pictures are dated April, 2008 but when I was looking for this post on my blog, to link it to the tart, I don’t [...]
Continue reading about Milopita: Two Old fashioned Apple Pies
This is my first post for 2013, so even belatedly I wish all of you a Happy New Year. As always I like to start my first post of the year with a sweet recipe, which symbolizes a sweet new year. This carrot cake is delicious! The result in a very moist cake without a [...]
Continue reading about Ginger Carrot Cake with Lemon Cream Cheese & Saffron Frosting
This year, like every Christmas, I have made some of the traditional Greek desserts I make every year. These melt in your mouth kourabiedes, which are buttery, shortbread cookies, are based on the recipe contained in my cookbook Mint, Cinnamon & Blossom Water, Flavours of Cyprus, Kopiaste! The basic ingredients are the same but this year [...]
Continue reading about Peanut Butter Cookies and the traditional desserts I made for Christmas
As this month is the month of Halloween, Baking Partners chose as there theme to bake Cupcakes or Muffins with pumpkin. We had three choices but I chose to make Pumpkin chocolate chips Muffins from Joy of baking which in its turn was also adapted from Baking from the Heart, a collaborative cookbook with Michael J Rosen, a recipe suggested by Reshmi [...]
What do you do when you have a huge butternut squash around 8 kilos? My neighbour in Assini gave me two huge butternut squashes from her garden the evening before leaving Nafplio. One of it was not ripe yet, so I left it there hoping that by the time I get back it will [...]
Continue reading about Savoury Cornmeal Crumble with Butternut Squash, Spinach and Feta
Pollo alla cacciatora, translates and hunter’s chicken. I don’t know if game, such as rabbit was originally involved and later on chicken was used to deserve its original name or if whether it is just hunter’s style chicken, the way the hunter cooked his chicken or whether when the hunter came back home from hunting, [...]
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Although in my last post I mentioned that it would take a long time to have an internet connection, things turned out much easier than what we were originally expecting and got the telephone line installed a couple of weeks after we arrived. It was a real odyssey to relocate and three weeks later most [...]
Can you believe it has been five years since I started blogging? I myself find it hard to believe that I made it so far. I am an Aries and Aries tend to get bored very easily but although there are times that I do feel tired of blogging, I seem to be hooked with [...]
Continue reading about 5 years Blog Anniversary with Chocolate Peppermint Almond Cake
I am really excited to announce that I joined a group of home bakers helping each other to achieve perfection. I saw the announcement at Reeni’s blog and there was no second thought. I never joined the Daring Bakers as I was afraid I could’nt cope but I think I’ve gone a long way since then [...]
«Let your food be your medicine, let your medicine be your food», Hippocrates. Garlic (Allium sativum), is one of the oldest cultivated plants in the world and has been grown for over 5000 years. In ancient Greece we find garlic mentioned in Aristotle’s writings, who mentions that it was used as a tonic but [...]
