Easter
Vassilopita Tsoureki is a brioche kind of Greek Sweet Bread made for New Year’s Day. After midnight and the change of the Year, the head of the family cuts this bread (or cake). Whoever finds the coin is considered to be lucky during the next year. If you would like to learn more about [...]
I hope you all had wonderful holidays. We spent some days in Sparta where we had our traditional lamb on the spit and kokoretsi. On Monday we visited the nearby village of Agios Georgios Voutianoi, where St. George’s day is celebrated with horse races. The weather was mostly sunny and enjoyed our visit there. On [...]
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Tsourekia is a brioche type of sweet bread which is braided and is part of our Easter and Christmas traditions. These are the tsourekia I made last year. I made them with chestnut filling and glazed them with chocolate. The chestnut filling is optional but it’s an addition that surely adds to the wonderful [...]
«Christos Anesti!» This is the wish exchanged by all orthodox to spread the word that Christ has risen. «Alithos Anesti!» The reply comes from the others to confirm that it is true that Christ has risen. It’s still very early in the morning and the family is still asleep. I Just wanted to make a [...]
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Memorial. (Gr. Μνημόσυνο Mnymosyno – mnee moh see no). A special service held in the Orthodox Church for the repose of the souls of the dead. Memorial services are held on the third, ninth and fortieth day; after six months, and after one or three years after death, then annually. Boiled wheat is used as [...]
Christos Anesti! Hi everybody, we returned back from our short break last night. We didn’t have much time to relax and it rained a bit but still we roasted our lamb on the spit in the garage. Since early in the morning I’ve been in the kitchen preparing for today as it’s my son’s name [...]
Kokoretsi is a traditional Greek dish consisting mainly of seasoned lamb or goat offals. To make kokoretsi the most difficult part of the process is to wash the bowels (intestines) of the lamb. The bowels should be washed thoroughly inside out. They are then washed and put in a bowl of water with either vinegar [...]
During the Easter holidays half the population of Athens celebrate Easter at their villages or at their relatives’ villages.Like the majority of theAthenians we drive away from this crazy city to relax and rejoin again with our relatives.Sparta is about 2 – 3 hours drive away from Athens but some times, depending on the traffic, [...]
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Tsoureki is a kind of sweet bread which we did not use to make in Cyprus, or at least my mother didn’t, so this is something I have learned after coming to Greece. The other day I was looking through my old note book with recipes and I found this magazine clipping which I had [...]
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These cookies are usually prepared a few days before Easter but I prepared some last week just to show them on the blog. Like most recipes, this one as well has a lot of variations. In others they add orange juice and orange rind, in others they do not add ammonia carbonate of baking soda, [...]
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