Dried Legumes
Whenever I go to the supermarket with my husband and I see something that I remember reading in a recipe and I would like to try it, I always add to the cart and worry later how to cook it. This happened when I bought some red kidney beans. In Greece we usually eat the [...]
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I do not remember ever mentioning our pet. We have a Siamese cat named Lisa and she is ten years old. She is also a Math genius. You must be wondering what Lisa has to do with revithokeftedes. In a way she does because my love for cats grew when I was about 10 years [...]
It’s difficult to cook for a family when you can’t get the whole family to eat the same thing. My children are not very fond of legumes and most of the times I have to cook two meals so that everyone will eat. I have made it a rule to cook legumes at least once [...]
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Beans are considered to be the national food of the Greeks. I do not know the story behind this, maybe it is because they used to eat them a lot, but according to food historians, fassolia and fassolada has been around since ancient Greek times. However, years back they used to call beans “the meat [...]
This soup is inspired by the Middle Eastern dip. It can be a filling lunch, when accompanied with pitta bread or croutons. Hoummous or hummus, there are almost as many ways of spelling this as there are recipes for it. The recipe is included in my cookbook Mint, Cinnamon & Blossom Water, Flavours of Cyprus, [...]
Fakes moutzentra is a lentil recipe we make in Cyprus and is a high protein, balanced healthy food, especially with the combination of rice. In Greece they make a similar recipe in the Aegean islands which is called Fakoryzo, meaning lentils and rice. I remember when my mother used to make moutzentra, she would fry [...]
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