Mezes
I love hoummous and when I boil chickpeas I always cook more and keep some in the deep freezer, to use it whenever we are craving some. The other day when I was looking in the deep freezer for the chickpeas to prepare some mezedes, I also saw that I had some leftover roasted butternut [...]
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Here are a few things I made with the pickled cherries. Actually, this was not a four course meal but each recipe was made on a different day but I just realized that I made an appetizer, a salad, a main course and a mezes/dessert okay it’s not actually a dessert but can be turned [...]
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If you ever visit Cyprus never order à la Carte.In Cypriot restaurants or tavernas your will see that they serve meze (plural mezedes) on their menu.Cypriot cuisine is famous for its mezedes, which translate as appetizers. Don’t think as mezedes being small appetizer plates as starters but Cypriot mezedes are more than just starters but [...]
For those reading my blog regularly, I wrote at the beginning of May that during the days my sons were sick, my husband went to buy some fresh fish for a soup for the boys and he called me to ask if I wanted some fresh anchovies for us. I thought that it was a [...]
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The name of this dish is named after Mount Athos, which in Greek is Aghion Oros.I don’t know if the monks in Agion Oros prepare this dish but it is a very good mezes. Before going to Thessaloniki I asked Peter “The Macedonian Kalofagas” if he knew any good restaurants we could visit and he [...]
These eggplant mezes are stuffed with feta and then coated with bread crumbs and deep fried. Perfect finger food for parties or in this case this will be my entry for Game Night Party Recipes, hosted my Mansi, at Funnfud. Melitzanes me Feta (Eggplant rolls with feta) Ingredients 2 – 3 long eggplants 2 eggs [...]
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Dakos or ntakos is the name of a Cretan barley rusk. A salad made with this rusk has the same name and is made with cheese and tomato on top. The rusk is also called krithrokoulouro or Koukouvagia (owl) in Crete, but to be frank I don’t know why they are so called. Probably because [...]
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