Cookies And Biscuits
I wanted to make something sweet but as this was not planned I opened my kitchen closets and looked for ingredients to see what I could make. I did not have eggs, I did not have enough regular sugar, I did not have vanilla, I looked into the drawers where my spices are looking for [...]
Continue reading about Orange flavoured Pecan and Almond Cookies
As I told you in my previous post, we visited an exhibition on Lakonian products. The first part was all about olives and Greek olive oil. I have taken many photos but as it is impossible to show all the exhibition, I have made a few collages so that you may see and find [...]
Continue reading about Honey, Peanut butter, Chocolate and Pastelli Cookies – Lakonia Part II
Melomakarona are one of our Christmas traditional cookies which are infused in honey. They have no butter, no eggs, nothing dairy but they are so tasty you cannot just eat one. They can be preserved for a very long time but they get a bit dry as time passes. That does not make them less [...]
Kourabiedes are similar to shortbread cookies. There are many recipes of kourabiedes but the main ingredient which gives this traditional Greek cookie its taste is the Greek sheep’s butter. However, if you cannot find Greek sheep’s butter you can also make them with any other butter you usually use. I have made kourabiedes quite [...]
My husband started doing the shopping when he realized that when I was with him we ended up with a huge bill. He usually goes to our neighbourhood supermarket where we can get all we need but in order to get some unusual ingredients we have to go to one of the big chain supermarkets [...]
Whenever I visit Bobbie, of Blog Chef, I really love all his recipes and have made a few of them which were fantastic. Recently I discovered that apart from his savory recipes, Bobby makes the most amazing desserts as well. Inspired by his Coconut Macaroons, I made a little twist to his recipe and added [...]
Making phyllo from scratch may be a little bit intimidating, not that it’s difficult to make. However, here is Greece we have a big variety of phyllos, each one different in taste and texture. Apart from the thin phyllo everyone knows which is used to make baklavas, we have «horiatiko phyllo» which is a phyllo [...]
Olive oil is a base for many Greek traditional cookies. There are many kinds of these cookies starting with the famous melomakarona (honey cookies), moustokouloura (must cookies), Sousamokouloura (sesame cookies), krasokouloura (wine cookies) and Ladokouloura (meaning oil cookies) , each one having a unique taste according to the ingredients added. Every Friday morning we have [...]
When I made the fig jam at the beginning of this month, I began thinking what to do with it. I remembered when I was still in Cyprus (that’s 27 years ago) we used to buy some biscuits full of fig jam in them and they were my favourite. I used to eat the whole [...]
I have talked about petimezi in a previous post but for those of you who are reading this for the first time petimezi is a syrup made of grape juice and is used as a sweetener. One of its uses in Greece is to make moustokouloura (must cookies). We usually make these cookies with petimezi [...]
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