Although I’ve stopped going to the gym since the beginning of this month as the weather has been very hot, most of the mornings we have been going to the beach for swimming. However, I still want to get some more exercise and there was a great offer on home treadmills which are pliable, [...]
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This is an old recipe I made a couple of years ago but I prepared it a little bit different this time. First of all I have sliced the chicken in a different way and then I tied it with kitchen string. I bought filleted chicken breasts so they were without the skin and bones [...]
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Another thing we tried, while in Rome was Calzone.
Although I had heard of calzone, I thought it would be much smaller and imagined it to be something like a turnover with phyllo pastry, similar to the Greek bourekia otherwise called Kaltsounia in Crete (do you see any similarities in the name?). However, kaltsounia are totally [...]
My friend, Natasha, of 5 Star Foodie Culinary Adventures, is hosting an event where she has asked us to further explore the flavours and textures of Macaroni and Cheese by deconstructing it and adapting it to our own culinary style. You still have time by the end of the month to prepare your own version [...]
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Many people shudder at the thought of cooking or eating liver but in Greece we eat it a lot. I love liver, especially, chicken livers, however, I don’t cook it very often as chicken giblets are high in cholesterol and only cook it two or three times a year, mostly during Easter.
Before cooking it, I [...]
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Summer Escapes – Part IV - Kladas, Laconias
Kladas is a small village just a few kilometres before reaching Sparta and that is where we usually stay when we visit our relatives.
This is the view of the village from the house and the last buildings near the mountain, is part of Sparta.
This is a view of [...]
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Souvlaki (plural souvlakia), is attested in Greece since antiquity and it was known with the name οβελίσκος (obeliskos), dim. of όβελος (obelos), «spit», mentioned amongst others in the works of Aristophanes («Acharnians» 1007, «Clouds» 178, «Wasps» 354, «Birds» 388, 672), Xenophon («Hellenica» HG3.3.7), Aristotle («Politics» 1324b19), etc. A meat and bread recipe which resembles the [...]
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Kotopita is one of many types of pita, or Greek savory pies. After making the pork and beef galettes using leeks, I wanted to try leeks with chicken as well.
I based this pie on the Chicken Pie I used to make in the past, only instead of using puff pastry I used [...]
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A Caesar salad has chicken breasts, romaine lettuce and croutons dressed with parmesan cheese, lemon juice, olive oil, egg, Worcestershire sauce, anchovies, and black pepper. Wikipedia.
Continuing healthy eating I wanted to make Caesar’s salad for the first time.
After reading in the internet 6 – 7 recipes I got an idea how it is made [...]
I had not planned what to cook today and was not really in a mood of cooking anything complicated. I had thawed some chicken breasts from the evening and by the time I finished this morning’s post it was almost noon. I decided to make a pasta dish and improvised with what I had in [...]
