“Weekend Herb Blogging“ is one of my favourite food blogging events and I am very happy that this week I am going to be hosting it.
I’m sure you’ve have heard of this event as this is the 3rd Year of Weekend Herb Blogging, created by Kalyn of Kalyn’s Kitchen and now Kalyn has passed it [...]
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Elies Tsakistes, (pronounced Eliėss Tsakistėss) are crushed green olives which are harvested when green. They are cracked and to become edible they have to remain in water for as long as necessary until they are not bitter any more. To crack the olives place on a cutting board, wear latex gloves and [...]
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Actually these were not intended to become a fig jam but as I said yesterday, when I went to the farmers’ market I bought tons of fruit, amongst other two kinds of figs: black figs and royal figs.
The only ones in the family eating figs is my elder son and me. We [...]
The method for roasting peppers is the same for any kind of peppers, but I have chosen Piperies Florinis, which are red sweet peppers, named after the prefecture of Florina, where they are cultivated.
Before giving my recipe, I wish to explain the easiest method for roasting peppers.
There are many ways you can roast them but [...]
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Hope everybody had a nice and relaxing week-end and have charged your batteries for another week’s blogging.
I found some time to write about the Lemon marmalade which I made last month when I made the Lemonade. As I said then, I wanted to make a spoon sweet with the peels just like the bergamot [...]
Would you believe that spring has just started and we will be having 35C/95F degrees during the weekend? Well, we didn’t have much of a winter this year and we don’t expect spring to last for long, so I wanted my post today to be very colourful before spring is gone.
Whenever I go to the [...]
Bergamot spoon sweet
Bergamots can be found in Greece, Cyprus, Italy, and other Mediterranean countries. Bergamot originated in Asia and is a small tree with long, oval green leaves with white flowers, which blossom during the spring. The bergamot bears a small round fruit and it is like a big lemon but has an orange [...]
Although I have already given a few recipes of spoon sweets I forgot to mention how we know if the syrup is ready. It is very important for spoon sweets that the syrup has the proper density.
If we have doubts and don’t know if the syrup is ready this is what we should do.
For spoon [...]
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