Cherries
I love cherries and it’s been a long time I’ve being wanting to make a cake with them but this year being on a diet I do not make desserts often, (the previous one I posted was a recipe from last year), and I really miss baking! Last week I decided that since it’s been [...]
Looking through my recipes I found a Cherry Black Forest Cake which I did not manage to post last year, so I thought I should share it with you now that the cherry season is here. I have posted similar recipes in the past, so I am just going to give you the links. Cherry [...]
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Here are a few things I made with the pickled cherries. Actually, this was not a four course meal but each recipe was made on a different day but I just realized that I made an appetizer, a salad, a main course and a mezes/dessert okay it’s not actually a dessert but can be turned [...]
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June is almost over and I need some holidays. We haven’t yet decided when and where to go this year but it will be some time in July and somewhere in Greece. Although our holidays will just be for a few days, I want to focus on a few other matters I need to finish, [...]
Each year I have been making the same Christmas Cake year after year after year and I still love it and will be making it again some time in the future. However, I still want to experiment with new things and this year I am making a Christmas Cake based on the older recipe but [...]
As I already told you I have some guests staying with us, as well as our son who came from Switzerland again, as he had to be interviewed for his Master Degree, which he will start after September. The candidates are many and only a few will be accepted but the interview went well and [...]
I am on a cherry kick right now and try to make some desserts while there are cherries. I just made my first cherry compote and look at it, I just love that deep burgundy color of cherries. So what’s the difference between spoon sweets or fruit spreads? To begin with spoon sweets are whole [...]
As I said in my previous post I will be having guests for the next two weeks and whenever time allows, I shall try and visit a few friends each day. I usually get up early in the morning when everybody else is fast asleep so that’s the time I will be probably visiting and [...]
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 [...]
2008 Cherries have a remarkably short growing season and in Greece this period is between June and end of July. In Cyprus I remember we could eat cherries, as early as May but by June they were gone. There are a few types of cherries, such as wild cherries, Bind, Lambert, Rainier, Royal Ann and [...]
