Ι wish to thank you all for your lovely messages, either private, here or at facebook. Although I still need some time to grieve, I want to share the following post with you in memory of my late brother. The funeral will be tomorrow at Sydney, Australia.
It will take some time until I feel like [...]
I just made this vegan cake. The glazing on top is still wet. Before preparing flaounes, I made this very easy cake and muffins as I wanted to use the oven so that the kitchen was warm, for the dough to rise.
This is one of the easiest cakes to make as you just mix all [...]
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It’s only a few days before Easter and this is the week we have so many things to do at home. Today, I am preparing Tsourekia and tomorrow I will be dying the Easter eggs and making the traditional Cypriot Easter Cheese breads, called Flaounes. Until Easter, I will post a few more recipes but [...]
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I feel embarrassed that I have never posted this dish before. Although this is a staple dish in all Greek households and I cook it very often, I have somehow forgotten to post about it.
Fasolia (phaseolus lunatus) gigantes, meaning «giant» are similar to elephant beans, lima beans or butter beans, but if you can find [...]
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I love a good marinara sauce! I have been making this sauce for ages and have realized that I have never posted it before. This sauce is very easy and very versatile and it’s not worth buying the ready-made sauce. Tomatoes are still abundant and cheap and I grow basil in a pot on my small [...]
As with tyropita (cheese pie), there are many types of spanakopita -spinach pie – in Greece, as well as a combination of both called Spanakotyropita, or when there is less spinach (or none at all) and more greens, it is called hortopita.
These kind of foods are staples in Greek cooking so every now and [...]
First of all for all of you who are celebrating Easter tomorrow I wish you a Happy Easter and to be in good health. We still have another week to celebrate Greek Orthodox Easter.
Yesterday, when I visited Susan I saw that Chris, of Mele Cotte is hosting her third event to bring awareness about cancer. [...]
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When I went to Cyprus last month I brought with me two bunches of cilantro and the bunches in Cyprus are really big.
I used it in salads, I used it in other recipes but still I had too much and as the days passed I didn’t want to see it being wasted, so while it [...]
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I was not going to post this recipe today but some time after Easter, as I wanted to focus on strictly Lenten recipes. Those who read my blog regularly know that I have been fasting since Clean Monday that is since 2nd March and I have been posting only nistisima, which are vegetarian and vegan [...]
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Kifylla is another Cypriot street food which is not widely known. It’s a sweet bread, filled with raisins and glazed with sugar on top and it used to be sold in the central streets, in wheeled carts. It’s a very healthy snack and perfect for breakfast.
You can either use butter or margarine but as [...]
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