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The first Monday of Lent (50 days before Greek Orthodox Easter) is a Public Holiday in Greece and Cyprus and marks the beginning of Lent and is celebrated all over Greece and Cyprus with a picnic at the fields and mountains (or parks or nearby hills in the big cities). Events and activities take [...]
What better than a nice hot soup on a cold day like today? When Lisa from Lisa’s Kitchen and Holler from Tinned Tomatoes asked us to prepare a Vegetarian soup, to be frank I did not have a recipe. The only vegetarian soups I make are houmous chickpea soup and lentils soup and that I [...]
Whilst preparing papoutsakia I kept thinking what should I do with all this eggplant flesh I was scooping out of the eggplant? Shall I make melitzanosalata (meaning eggplant salad but it is actually a dip). I was skeptical as I knew that to make melizanosalata, the eggplants should be pierced with a fork and baked [...]
I have posted about koupes last month and you can see the original recipe here. The recipe for the dough is exactly the same. However, as the Orthodox have big lenten periods, fifty days before Easter, forty days before Christmas and some days before the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary as well as on some [...]
Beans are considered to be the national food of the Greeks. I do not know the story behind this, maybe it is because they used to eat them a lot, but according to food historians, fassolia and fassolada has been around since ancient Greek times. However, years back they used to call beans “the meat [...]
Pischies is a Cypriot traditional pastry dessert made with dough on which it is generously brushed with olive oil, cinnamon and sugar and after shaping them they are fried in olive oil and then bathed in syrup. These pastries are very easy to make and very tasty. You can make the the dough from scratch [...]
Bourekia is a type of fried or baked pastry made with flaky homemade phyllo and filled with a variety of ingredients. It can be either savory or sweet, so apart from the minced meat we usually make in Cyprus, they can be filled with cheese, like anari, halloumi or feta, halvas, spanakopita filling, mushrooms, etc. [...]
Artichokes from the region of Argolida Artichokes are native to the Mediterranean and appear during spring. Although during the past years we have all sorts of vegetables cultivated in green houses, we never see artichokes after the end of Spring. Of course, we can get them frozen or canned but they are much tastier when [...]
Tahinopita is a Cypriot Lenten Pie and I stress the word Cypriot Tahinopita because I searched the web for information about tahinopita and could not find this recipe anywhere. The only thing I found was a cake made with tahini and 90% of the recipes found were exactly the same (copy – paste) from someone [...]
In the Greek language there is only one word for pumpkins, squash or courgettes (zucchini) and the word is «kolokythi or kolokytha». Kolokotes, therefore are traditional Cypriot pastries, similar to calzone, empanadas, boureki or pies as we call them, made with squash and are neither sweat or salty. They are vegan and perfect for [...]
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