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 [...]
Continue reading about Chili Con Chorizo and Red Kidney Beans
Tyropita (τυρóπιτα) meaning tyri (cheese) + pita = pie is a Greek pastry made with different cheese fillings. A classic tyropita is made with layers of phyllo, prefereably hand made but store bought is an easy but also delicious solution, which is layered and buttered or oiled. Buttered phyllo is richer in taste but if [...]
Melomakarona are one of our Christmas traditional cookies which are infused in honey. They have no butter, no eggs, nothing dairy but they are so tasty you cannot just eat one. They can be preserved for a very long time but they get a bit dry as time passes. That does not make them less [...]
I have been told by some friends again that I am still having problems with my site, as I also had with the previous post. Although viewing it with Firefox I have no problem, I tried viewing my site with Internet Explorer and my post is mixed up with previous posts and code. When I [...]
Weekend Herb Blogging, originally created by Kalyn, of Kalyn’s Kitchen, has now passed on to Haalo, of Cook (almost) Anything at least once, is now celebrating its three years anniversary and through this event we come to learn more things about herbs, vegetables, plants, edible flowers and fruit around the world.
All the entries [...]
Whenever I visit Bobbie, of Blog Chef, I really love all his recipes and have made a few of them which were fantastic. Recently I discovered that apart from his savory recipes, Bobby makes the most amazing desserts as well. Inspired by his Coconut Macaroons, I made a little twist [...]
I have been making this same Christmas Cake for ever. This year I have decided to change everything. Firstly I’ve change the decoration. They do not make Christmas Cakes in Greece so I cannot find new Christmas ornaments to put on my Christmas Cake. Last year my sister gave me [...]
This weekend I had a visitor from Crete. Remember telling you about our friends in Crete sending us all that xynomyzithra cheese? There daughter is in the same University as my son and they are preparing their thesis together. They usually do most of the work online but sometimes they have [...]
I am having a hard time writing this recipe as I am not sure what the English word would be for psaronefri. I checked the word on the online translator and I got the translation of psaronefri as griskin.
Is it griskin?
Google searching the word griskin, I got this but in the instructions it speaks of [...]
It’s been exactly one month since my husband’s name day and I did not yet manage to post any of the recipes I made that day.
I wanted to make something special on that day and all the recipes were of my own inspiration.
The most difficult of all was the cake. I’ve never ever [...]
