Original Recipes
Another Creative Concoctions Event has come to an end with a little disappointment to see only a few entries. Elais -Unilever Hellas, has been very generous offering lots of olive oil to send worldwide and I wish to thank them for this. The word creative may have probably scared a few lot away but this [...]
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A few days ago I visited my friend Marianna at her house and ate this wonderful Orange Cake. Marianna told me that she had eaten this cake somewhere else and she asked for the recipe. They gave her the recipe but the recipe had three whole oranges, including the peels, olive oil, sugar, eggs, I [...]
The summer is here for good and we’ve been having high temperatures. The financial situation, the politics and the corruption of all Greek Governments in the last decades were catastrophic and we had no idea about it. Suddenly those imbeciles, who have been stealing the people and who have been eating with golden spoons have [...]
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Did I ever mention how much I love desiccated coconut? Well, I do and when I went to an Asian store a couple of months back, I bought a large packet, which was much cheaper than the ones we get in supermarkets, so I have been using it in a lot of my recipes, which [...]
No kitchen is complete without a bottle of Extra Virgin Olive Oil and if for one reason or another you are not using Olive Oil, it’s never too late to start and also now is your chance to win one. Olive oil is a healthy fat and most health-conscious people choose olive oil over [...]
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Here we are again with another roundup of Creative Concoctions, with savoury recipes using olive oil. Thank you all of you for participating with your wonderful, creative recipes. Meenakshi, of Ponderings of a Working Mom, has made a healthier version of Dal (lentils) – (oriya ishtyle) using olive oil. In India food is usually cooked [...]
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We came back yesterday from a visit to Nafplion again. I suppose now that the house is progressing we shall be visiting on a regular basis at least once a week in order to see some things on the spot. This means that I will be having less time to visit and post recipes but [...]
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The weather is very stubborn this year and the Spring weather seems like a shy girl, who doesn’t want to come out from her shell and is hiding away and is grumpy and bad tempered. The beaches are empty, it is windy and the temperatures are below normal for this time of the year. [...]
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Today is Mother’s Day, so I would like to wish all the moms in the world «Happy Mother’s Day»! Οlive oil is by far the greatest exponent of monosaturated fat and base of the Mediterranean diet, which is regarded to be the exemplar of correct and healthy diet and a factor of longevity. Greece is [...]
Continue reading about Announcing Creative Concoctions #4 and Extra Virgin Olive Oil Giveaway
I am sorry for the delay in posting the round-up but as I explained in a previous post one of the reasons was to get organized but the other I did not tell you about, is that I wanted some time to get in touch with Altis, the lead Greek Extra Virgin Olive Oil [...]
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