My Recipes
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 [...]
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The old saying goes…….”We are what we eat”. This means that to remain healthy and fit and active we must eat Healthy! All of us could use a brain boost from time to time. Whether we are in a job that requires us to use our minds for hours on end or we just want [...]
Dear friends and readers of my blog, I wish to apologize for not posting as often as I would like. I also wish to apologize to my blogger friends whom I have not visited for a long time. Life is very difficult after the economic crisis and we hardly make it on our pensions. Since [...]
Continue reading about Mascarpone Cream Cheese Black Forest, Step by Step
Summer is officially over, although yesterday there were people still swimming at Assini Beach. Today it is dull, cloudy and it rained for a few minutes in the morning. The temperature has dropped so we will be staying more hours at home, which means that now I have more time for some work to be [...]
Continue reading about Penne with Mushrooms, Roasted Garlic, Cilantro and Marinara Sauce
If you would like to make something different for Thanksgiving, you should try this Greek Kolokythopita (Pumpkin or Butternut Squash Pie). It may be different from what you are used to but it’s so delicious you will love it. Pumpkin is not as easy to find in Greece as butternut squash, so you can use [...]
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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 [...]
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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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Hello from Athens again. I’ve been trying to write a blog post when I was in Assini for over a week unsuccessfully and I haven’t been visiting my friends” blogs for quite a long time. Please forgive me but there are a lot of distractions in the countryside. You can read a post on our [...]
Okra with fish is a specialty of the Greek islands. I remember years ago seeing a Greek cooking show making this recipe and I have been wanting to make it ever since. The recipe used whole fish with the bones, I think it was sea bass, and that was probably what put me off as I hate [...]
Continue reading about Mpamies me Mpakaliaro (Okra with Pollock fillets)
