Easy Recipes
Today is my second son’s Birthday. Happy Birthday Kyriacos! Unfortunately I couldn’t make him a birthday cake as he is in Athens but his sister made one. Yesterday I invited my neighbours to come over for a cup of coffee and as most people are fasting for the Easter period, I made this vegan cake. [...]
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Today is Palm Sunday for the Greek Orthodox and just a week before Easter. Althoughit it is a fasting period, which means that for 48 days we should abstain from eating foods derived from animals, containing blood and from animal derived products such as dairy products, this year we did not fast all the period [...]
A few days ago I made an amazing Apple Tart, which I wanted to post, but looking in «My recipes to post» file, I saw that I had a lot of apple recipes I made using apples, which I did not post. Some of these recipes have been made even four years ago. So, [...]
When cooked, the chicken becomes so juicy and flavourful and because a slit is made in the baby potatoes, all the wonderful flavours of olive oil, lemon juice, garlic and rosemary are absorbed by the potatoes, making them irresistible.
Dear Readers and friends, I am ending this year’s post with a Marathon post with Risottos. This post is symbolic and as we through rice at weddings as a symbol of prosperity, I wish that the New Year will bring you and your families Happiness and prosperity to your lives. I make risottos very often [...]
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The time has finally come and we shall be moving during the weekend. The bad news is that we will be without a land line telephone and consequently no internet for a long time. We applied to the telephone company and although the nearest house with telephone is only 50 metres away, we are required [...]
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Bread Pudding is an old fashioned dessert which is made in many countries which had an English influence. Cyprus was a British colony for many years so this dessert was known in Cyprus as well. Puddings were originally made from stale leftover bread that was simply moistened in water, to which a little sugar, [...]
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Christos Anesti and chronia polla. This is our wish after Easter which means Christos Anesti (Christ has risen) and may you live for many years. Today, Monday after Easter it is still a public holiday here in Greece. I wanted to cook something light with ingredients I had at home as all the shops [...]
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Last Thursday was Tsiknopempti, which literally translates as stinky Thursday. Stinky in a good sense, referring to the smell (tsikna) of the smoke coming , from the charred meat, which fills the atmosphere from everywhere on that day, as it is a tradition to grill or fry meet. Pempti means fifth as it is the [...]
Patsavouropita is a traditional Greek Tyropita (cheese pie) but before giving the recipe let me explain what it means because I know it’s all Greek to you. Patsavoura means something which is not neatly stacked in an orderly way and also a rug used to mop up dirt and metaphorically it is a demeanor [...]
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