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 [...]
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 or [...]
As I said in my post for the Easter Cookies, we did not make tsourekia and Easter cookies in Cyprus, as we did not make them at home, at least my mother didn’t and this is something I have learned in Greece.
The other day I was looking through my old note book with recipes [...]
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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 [...]
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