A couple of my readers have been asking me for a recipe for Pastichia, a Cypriot recipe for a type of cookie which is crunchy outside, soft inside and chewy. I have searched the internet but unfortunately I have not found anything regarding this recipe. When I need a Cypriot recipe I always ask my [...]
The other night when I was making the Almond Paste for the Christmas cake, I had two egg yolks which I wanted to use. I decided that the best way to use them was to make a custard cream. However, I still wanted to make a lovely Espresso Coconut Roulade I saw a few days [...]
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September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. I have participated at this event last year as well and I shall continue to support it because every woman must be aware of this silent killer.
Michelle of Bleeding Espresso and Sara of Ms Adventures in Italy are sponsoring an O Foods Contest. Please see below for the [...]
Wow, how time flies and it’s time to make the Christmas Cake again. I have been making this same Christmas Cake for ever.
This year I have decided to change everything. Firstly I’ve changed the decoration. They do not make Christmas Cakes in Greece so I cannot find new Christmas ornaments to put [...]
Christmas and New Year’s Day are not very far away and during the holidays we cooked and prepared lots of sweets and savory dishes. After seeing the event of Tuesday leftovers to search our pantries or cupboards and create things from our leftovers I realized how many things I could have prepared out of the [...]
Almond paste is made from ground almonds and sugar, typically 50-55%, with a small amount of cooking oil, beaten eggs, heavy cream or corn syrup added to bind the two ingredients. It is similar to marzipan but marzipan contains more sugar than almond paste, and often contains additional ingredients such as food preserves and [...]
Some cakes which are not part of our culinary habits have been adapted by us and added to our cuisine. Among these cakes is the Christmas cake, which must have been introduced to us when Cyprus was a British Colony. I can remember it from my childhood and I have been doing [...]
Now that Christmas is soon to come we will have a lot of cakes and biscuits which will need almonds, either blanched or roasted.
So instead of writing the procedure in each recipe I thought it would be best to write the procedure once and put a link to each recipe, where necessary.
To blanche almonds
The procedure, [...]
