Although we have not left on vacation this year, we have been away again for a fews days. This summer it’s been really hot and humid here in Athens, not the kind of weather that one could stay on the computer for long. Whenever we can we go to the beach or get [...]
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Today it’s been forty days without Dear Jules, aka Rosie of Baking Cakes Galore, who left us quite unexpectedly of heart attack. This event was created to honour Jules but also to bring awareness about heart diseases and the best cure is to know what causes it and how to prevent it.
As much [...]
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A few days ago when I posted the Scarlet Pesto with Piperies Florinis I was planning to call it Red Pesto and google searching to see if there were other pestos with similar names I found this pesto and knew from that moment that it was something I wanted to try.
Pesto alla [...]
I love making vegetables into pestos but I don’t make the usual Ligurian or Genovese pesto with pinenuts and parmesan. I don’t have anything again parmesan but I love Greek cheeses more and I also prefer to support Greek cheeses, so I have adapted the pestos with local flavours . Regarding pinenuts I am not [...]
Dear friends,
I am really moved and can’t write too many thing about Rosie.
On the 19th May 2010, a dear friend Rosie, of Baking Cakes Galore passed away. Most of you have probably heard about this and then maybe some of you haven’t.
Maria, one of her dearest friends has written a beautiful post about Jules, which [...]
Piperies Florinis are red long sweet peppers, named after the prefecture of Florina, in Norther Greece, where they are produced.
I read in the site of a local producer that these red sweet peppers have been growing in Florina for centuries and date back to antiquity. They were probably brought back to Macedonia from [...]
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Acai berries are packed with antioxidants more than any other known fruit or vegetable in the world. That’s what makes this smoothie recipe such a nutritional powerhouse.
Acai berries are also rich in Omega 3, 6 and 9 fatty acids, amino acids, protein, vitamins and dietary fiber.
However, this is a tropical rainforest fruit which [...]
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Soon after Easter I started watching my diet again but reading blogs all the day, there are some times I am really tempted to make some of the recipes I see.
Being on diet doesn’t mean that you can’t eat a dessert once in a while or a snack. Instead of eating anything else in the [...]
I remember reading in the past other posts about plagiarism and I don’t believe that this is also happening to me. I discovered this morning that someone is copying my recipes as well as some other food bloggers’ recipes and probably all the other content is also stolen. He/she started his blog in April (eight [...]
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A Chinese Tangzhong starter / Water roux starter is a mixture of flour and water. That is to combine together one portion of bread flour and five portions of water by weight in a pot. Heat up the mixture to bring out the gelatinization of starch in flour. What makes the bread [...]
