Mahalebi is a cream we make in Cyprus like pudding. The traditional way of flavouring this cream is with rose water, rose syrup and orange blossom water. Back at home my mom served it with spoon sweets and a little syrup on top and my favourite would be with bitter orange spoon sweet.
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Continue reading about Light Milk Mahalebi with Strawberries
One of September’s grapes is called fraoula, which means strawberry. I do not know why it is called strawberry but I suppose it could be because of its colour or taste. We usually don’t eat grapes except for the seedless sultana grapes but for some unknown reason when I [...]
Why would I by posting a Nectarine Cake in the middle of winter?
Nectarine is a medium-sized stone fruit – a variety of peaches or a mutation of the peach bearing fruit - (Prunus persica) with a smooth red and yellow skin, firm yellowish-pink flesh and a peachy flavour with undertones of almond.
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Quince is one of my favourite spoon sweets and I made it three times this year. The first and second time I made it the same way as I had previously posted the recipe and my children loved it.
My son who was coming from Switzerland for the Christmas holidays told me that he wanted some [...]
Continue reading about Glyko Kydoni kai Kastano (Quince and Chestnut spoon sweet)
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.
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