Apricots

Ivy on Ιουνίου 10th, 2010

I haven’t made a real dessert for ages, so I have been  really looking forward to making a cake  for my husband’s birthday, which is today. Cheesecake is one of our favourite desserts but being on the Mediterranean Diet, for a few months now, I didn’t want to make something loaded with calories and unfortunately [...]

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Eating healthily according to the Mediterranean Diet, does not mean depriving yourself of all treats! If you want to eat a dessert every now and then, just be smart about what you eat.  All the ingredients I used to make this cream is low fat.  I used low fat cream, low fat Greek yoghurt and [...]

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Ivy on Ιουνίου 4th, 2010

The strawberry season is almost ending and now you can get them quite cheap.   If you like having strawberries, year round (not that they’ll last so long) you can preserve them.   Imagine eating your ice cream with strawberries and strawberry syrup in August, or making strawberry panna cotta in winter.  The leftover syrup is a [...]

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Ivy on Ιουνίου 9th, 2009

We left quite unexpectedly for a long weekend and went to a nearby island.  It was a decision we took on Friday afternoon and we left early on Saturday morning and came back yesterday.  We are having really high temperatures here in Athens and until we leave on vacation in August, we shall be doing [...]

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Ivy on Ιουνίου 14th, 2008

First of all «Happy Father’s Day» to all the fathers of the world. If my father were alive I am sure he would appreciate this dessert. This month’s winner of the Royal Foodie Joust was Erin of the Skinny Gourmet, who chose three ingredients: apricots butter and ginger. Thank you Erin for choosing these ingredients. [...]

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