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 cheesecake [...]
Soon after Easter I started watching my diet again but reading blogs all the day, there are some times I am really tempted to make some of the recipes I see.
Being on diet doesn’t mean that you can’t eat a dessert once in a while or a snack. Instead of eating anything else in the [...]
After Easter I’ve started watching my weight again and have been going to the gym everyday. A few days ago when we went to the supermarket I found myself putting some low fat products in the cart, such as Dirollo cream cheese with 3% fat, which is similar to Philadelphia, myzithra also called anthotyro or [...]
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It’s only a few days before Easter and this is the week we have so many things to do at home. Today, I am preparing Tsourekia and tomorrow I will be dying the Easter eggs and making the traditional Cypriot Easter Cheese breads, called Flaounes. Until Easter, I will post a few more recipes but [...]
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The other night when I was making the Almond Paste for the Christmas cake, I had two egg yolks which I wanted to use. I decided that the best way to use them was to make a custard cream. However, I still wanted to make a lovely Espresso Coconut Roulade I saw a few days [...]
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In my previous post where I made Greek yoghurt for the first time, I told you that the first time I made it, it did not set as it should and it looked more like a cream rather than a yoghurt.
It still tasted like yoghurt but what was I supposed to do with it? Some [...]
Tiramisu used to be one of my favourite desserts and although I used to make it often in the past, after the bird flu, I stopped making it because of the raw eggs used in this dessert. While in Rome, we were offered tiramisu a couple of times, as part of the menu and remembered [...]
I love the taste of lemon and I have been wanting to make lemon curd for ages. However, butter and eggs was the reason that kept me from making it. However, even if I have been avoiding eggs and butter as much as I can, I still want to make a few things at least [...]
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29th Wedding Anniversary
«Knowing you will be with me in all my tomorrows, makes my today so wonderful».
On Saturday morning I was still feeling terrible after three days of flu so when my husband asked me if I needed anything from the supermarket I knew that I wanted to make a cake for our 29thWedding Anniversary, [...]
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I found this recipe here on The Food Network.com with extremely high ratings and since I have been seeing a lot of Tyler Florence recipes in the blogoshpere, I had to see for myself what this was all about.
I must say I was not disappointed, although the caramel made the pie extra sweet, too much [...]
