Christmas
Most of us have a hard time deciding what to cook for the holidays. Here are a few ideas and hope this will help a few of you. Psaronefri with prune sauce Stuffed Turkey Roulade Stuffed Turkey (Cypriot recipe) Cottage pie with your leftovers Roasted lamb or goat Beef in Dark Beer and Pumpkin Sweet [...]
I made these cookies last June when my son was still living in Switzerland and came to visit us for a few days. I made them the day before he left so that he could take some with him and share them with his room mates, but by the next day the three of them [...]
This time of the year I don’t feel like posting any other recipes than cookies or cakes so I’ve opened my file and found lots of recipes I made throughout the year and I think this would be the best time to post them. I am starting with one recipe which I made last Christmas [...]
Pastitsia is a version of Amygalota, which means that this is with almonds. This Cypriot cookie is baked in the oven and is crunchy outside, soft inside and chewy. These used to be the traditional confection offered at engagements. A couple of my readers have been asking me if I had a recipe for them. [...]
Kourabies (pl. kourabiedes), as most of you, who follow my blog, must know by now, are the Greek shortbread cookies made during Christmas. In the older times, before the use of the mixer, these cookies needed elaborate preparation and that was done by hand, so these were made for special occasions such as weddings, christenings [...]
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 [...]
Theofania: The celebrations throughout the Twelve days of Christmas, called Dodekaimera, period until Epiphany, (6th January), end on Epiphany day where Greek Christmas celebrations conclude with the feast called «Ta Phota» meaning «The Lights».
My best wishes to all of you for a Happy New Year!! Vassilopita is our traditional New Year’s cake which is also made as Tsoureki, a Sweet Bread. This cake can easily be called an orange cake and it is similar to a pound cake, in which a coin is inserted for good luck. There [...]
Samousades is the Spartan version of baklavas and is made in a similar way we make “daktyla” in Cyprus, the only difference is that they are rolled into a thicker roll . Samousades is traditionally made with hand made phyllo and it is filled with nuts, almonds or walnuts, sesame seeds and spices. It is [...]
As I wrote in a previous post, zalatina, as it is called in Cyprus, which is probably derived from the word gelatin, was usually made with pork’s head, ears and feet. My mother would make zalatina often but as we did not eat meat from the head she would add some lean meat especially for [...]
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