One of my favourite ingredients is mushrooms but making a mushroom pie was out of the question as two out of five members of my family hate mushrooms.
My son George also loves mushrooms as much as I do and has been asking me for quite a long time to make a mushroom pie.  When we [...]

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Ivy on Δεκεμβρίου 28th, 2009

Hope you all had lovely Holidays.  I cannot say the same, as we had to spend a whole day in hospital on Wednesday, after my son had a stomach virus and then on Christmas day my husband caught it as well but thank God it only lasted for a few days and they are beginning [...]

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Ivy on Οκτωβρίου 28th, 2009

To all the Greek and Cypriot friends and readers of my blog «Chronia Polla» for today’s National Holiday, Ochi Day.
I have been seeing so many pumpkin recipes popping up everywhere in the blogosphere and with Halloween coming up soon I thought to share these recipes with you in case you wish to make something different [...]

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Ivy on Ιουλίου 11th, 2009

Kotopita is one of many types of pita, or Greek savory pies.    After making the pork and beef galettes using leeks, I wanted to try leeks with chicken as well.
I based this pie on the Chicken Pie I used to make in the past, only instead of using puff pastry I used [...]

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Ivy on Ιουλίου 6th, 2009

Tiganopsomo, which means fried bread is very easy to make.   All you need is any kind of yeast bread dough, which is fried in olive oil.  Some times it is filled with cheese, such as feta or any other hard Greek cheese but when it is not filled, it can turn into a dessert by [...]

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Ivy on Ιουνίου 30th, 2009

Now that it’s summer and very hot, it’s hard to stay at home, so I have been away during the weekend and we came back last evening.  I’ve had too many other things to do, so I haven’t had time to visit friends but hope to do this soon.
After the Beef and Pork Galette, I [...]

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Ivy on Ιουνίου 24th, 2009

Thank you to all of you who’ve written to me over the past few days, either at the blog, facebook or by private e-mail, to express your sympathy and kind thoughts.
I am really grateful to have such good friends which I met through the internet.
Life, however, does go and time is the best healer of [...]

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Ivy on Ιουνίου 21st, 2009

When I saw this pastry at  The Constanble’s Larder, I loved it immediately and knew immediately what to do with it.  Check out Giff’s post to see a lovely vegetarian galette.
The first recipe I used this Provençal Pastry was to make a Meat Galette,

then another meat galette but with a different filling

I loved the simplicity [...]

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Ivy on Ιουνίου 15th, 2009

Although making pies is not considered to be an easy job, pies are considered easy to eat and this bell pepper pie is both really easy to make and to eat.
Bell Peppers, also known as sweet peppers are native to Mexico and their seeds were carried to Spain during the 15th century and from there [...]

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Ivy on Μαΐου 28th, 2009

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 [...]

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