Jams And Preserves
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 [...]
Continue reading about Glyko Kydoni kai Kastano (Quince and Chestnut spoon sweet)
In Greece and Cyprus we like preserving fruits and you can make what we call glyka tou koutaliou (spoon sweets) with anything you can imagine. Quince is one of my favourites but it was the first time I attempted to make some. The procedure is almost the same for a lot of fruit. The only [...]
Continue reading about Glyko Kydoni me Amygdala (Quince Spoon Sweet)
Elies Tsakistes, (pronounced Eliėss Tsakistėss) are crushed green olives which are harvested when green. Green olives are usually sold ready to be eaten but if you produce olives and want to make them from scratch, there is a procedure to follow in order that the olives become edible. First of all you have to crack [...]
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Just a few days before I was ill I saw this recipe of a Panacotta with caramelized orange peels, by Happy Cook, of my Kitchen Stories. Unfortunately my friend had forgotten to post how she made the caramelized orange peels and left me a note in my last post that she would update the recipe [...]
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 ate a [...]
Continue reading about Marmelada Syko kai Glyko Syko (Fig jam and Fig Spoon Sweet)
2008 Cherries have a remarkably short growing season and in Greece this period is between June and end of July. In Cyprus I remember we could eat cherries, as early as May but by June they were gone. There are a few types of cherries, such as wild cherries, Bind, Lambert, Rainier, Royal Ann and [...]
First of all «Happy Father’s Day» to all the fathers of the world. If my father were alive I am sure he would appreciate this dessert. This month’s winner of the Royal Foodie Joust was Erin of the Skinny Gourmet, who chose three ingredients: apricots butter and ginger. Thank you Erin for choosing these ingredients. [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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