Gemista, means “filled” or “stuffed” vegetables such as, peppers, eggplants, courgettes, onions etc. The filling can be a meat based one, usually with minced beef and rice but I always prefer to make them vegetarian.
Gemista fall under the category ladera or “oily” food, as we call them but my version is a much lighter [...]
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Peas and carrots is one of the Greek staple foods I love very much and each time I find myself making it, sometimes adding more ingredients and sometimes just making it simple, with just a few ingredients.
One of the Greek ladera I love very much is arakas or mpizelia (peas). Although during the [...]
I don’t like making New Year’s resolutions but I know that I am back to healthy cooking again and I’ll try to keep cooking as healthy as possible. After all that butter which was consumed during December and gaining a few kilos, I haven’t yet made anything sweet this month and although I am not [...]
Today as I was looking for the vegetarian recipe of okra to link it to this recipe, I realized that I had not blogged about it.
There was a time that I was writing recipes here and there but did not post the same recipe simultaneously on the blog as well. I wrote about [...]
In Athens, but also in most of the parts of Greece, once a week, every neighborhood has its street market, which is called “laiki agora” meaning peoples’ markets.
There you can find freshly cut, ripened-to-perfection fruits, vegetables, produce, herbs, fish, flowers, plants, clothes and household items. Usually the marketplace occupies four or [...]
One of my favourite summer dishes is fasolakia (runner beans). In Greece we get two types of green beans. Barbounia, which are flat and tsaoulia, which are round. I always buy barbounia as they are much more tastier. Although my mother used to make this dish with lamb, I always prefer to make this vegetarian [...]
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