1st February today and «Kalo Mina» as we Greeks wish each other at the beginning of each month, which is a wish to have a great month.
I have been asked by Sierra Rose to review her cookbook, «Mom’s Favorite Recipes» which is a collection of classic American recipes, like Chocolate Chip Cookies, Southern Style Nut [...]
I made these cookies last June when my son was still living in Switzerland and came to visit us for a few days. I made them the day before he left so that he could take some with him and share them with his room mates, but by the next day the three of them [...]
Today we had two reasons to celebrate. It’s my son’s birthday but it was also his graduation from the University. Although the lemon cake was made for my husband ten days ago, I didn’t have the time to prepare the post for the new cake, which is a Vanilla and Chocolate Cake, so here is [...]
I love the taste of lemon and I have been wanting to make lemon curd for ages. However, butter and eggs was the reason that kept me from making it. However, even if I have been avoiding eggs and butter as much as I can, I still want to make a few things at least [...]
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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 [...]
I had lots of lemons at home left from last Tuesday when I visited the farmers’ market and I didn’t know what to do with them. I had two alternatives about the lemon juice. I would either put it into ice cubes to freeze it, to be used whenever I needed some (but [...]
Although my husband comes from Arcadia, all his relatives live in Sparta, Lakonia. Sparta is situated on the foothills of Taygetus Mountain and is the center of an agricultural plain whose focus is the Eurotas valley. It is the local center for the processing of goods such as citrus and olives. Recently, [...]
