Today it’s been forty days without Dear Jules, aka Rosie of Baking Cakes Galore, who left us quite unexpectedly of heart attack. This event was created to honour Jules but also to bring awareness about heart diseases and the best cure is to know what causes it and how to prevent it.
As much [...]
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The 16th of October has been declared as “World Bread Day” by the International Union Of Bakers And Bakers-Confectioners (UIB). On that occasion Zorra, at “Kochtopf”, is organizing an event in order to celebrate bread and the art of bread making around the world. I participated last year as well and although I was [...]
I found this recipe here on The Food Network.com with extremely high ratings and since I have been seeing a lot of Tyler Florence recipes in the blogoshpere, I had to see for myself what this was all about.
I must say I was not disappointed, although the caramel made the pie extra sweet, too much [...]
Gyristarkes, from the Greek verb γυρίζω = turn, now commonly known as glystarkes or glistarkes, is a kind of grid-like crusty, sesame rusks. The bread sticks are dipped into sesame seeds and then they are shaped beginning with a cross (as it had a religious meaning as well) and then other bread sticks are added [...]
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I know that I always say that I wish I had an Ice Cream machine, whenever I comment on someone’s Ice cream post but although it doesn’t cost much, I have no space in my kitchen to add another gadget and even if I did, I am still thinking if I should buy one, as [...]
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Although making pies is not considered to be an easy job, pies are considered easy to eat and this bell pepper pie is both really easy to make and to eat.
Bell Peppers, also known as sweet peppers are native to Mexico and their seeds were carried to Spain during the 15th century and from there [...]
Stamnaggathi are wild greens, with a mildly bitter taste but simultaneously having a touch of sweetness which does not resemble to any other wild greens and is a must for a healthy style cuisine. During the past years these greens are becoming very popular in all Greek gourmet restaurants and you can rarely find [...]
Thank you all of you for the lovely recipes you made and such lovely words you have written for your mothers. I am posting the roundup a bit earlier than I have originally announced as we shall be going out to celebrate in a while and if I get any more participations I will add [...]
Orange flavoured cake must have been the first cake I learned to make from my mother and then my daughter learned this cake from me as well.
A few days ago I read at Life’s feast a Blood Orange Yoghurt Cake and although I never used to like blood oranges (probably from the name) I wanted [...]
Mother, mamma, mamman, maa, mutter, madre, mere, mãe, meme, kryemurgeshë, matka, inahan, majka, abatyse, moeder, moer, ema, màna (μάνα), makuahine, anya, nay, induk or in whatever other language this is probably the first word we learn and the sweetest of all.
The modern Mother’s Day holiday was created by Anna Jarvis as a day [...]
