Ivy on January 6th, 2009

I have never made giant pasta shells before but seeing a few posts in the past I knew these would be great so when I saw them at the supermarket I could imagine all the fillings I would try them out with.  I was debating what to make.  Would it be  stuffed with meat or [...]

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Ivy on December 12th, 2008

I had not planned what to cook today and was not really in a mood of cooking anything complicated.  I had thawed some chicken breasts from the evening and by the time I finished this morning’s post it was almost noon.    I decided to make a pasta dish and improvised with what I had in [...]

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Ivy on November 17th, 2008

Unfortunately all good things end soon and this was the last day of our trip.
As a Foodie I could not resist going into a Supermarket, which was next door to the hotel.
I had visited it the very first day of our visit and spotted a few things I wanted to bring along.

So on Tuesday, early [...]

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Ivy on October 9th, 2008

I am making a very short and easy post just to tell you that I had a nasty cold all this week that’s why I haven’t been around posting or visiting your blogs. I attempted a couple of times to read your posts and leave a message but after reading a couple of posts [...]

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Ivy on September 23rd, 2008

It’s been a while now that I wanted to sign up in the Adopt a Blogger program. I had seen some of my friends blogging about their adopting a new blogger but at the time I had found my way around the blogging world. It wasn’t easy at the beginning but [...]

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Ivy on September 16th, 2008

Pasta is one of our family’s favourite dishes and and when I have lots of work to do I always resort to a pasta dish.   I put this dish together using ingredients I had at home.  If you have cleaned the kalamari in advance or if you use frozen kalamari this dish does not [...]

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Yesterday I didn’t know what to prepare for lunch and remembered that I had some lasagna in my pantry which were there for quite a long time. I had some vegetables in the freezer (bell peppers and mushrooms) and some spring onions, carrots, parsley and eggplants from last week’s visit to the farmers’ market, [...]

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Ivy on August 12th, 2008

I have lots of recipes I have gathered during all these months and for which I did not have the time to write about them. So instead of writing a lot of things I thought that it would be the time to write some of these recipes and have them in autopost for the [...]

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When someone who has never cooked before decides to start cooking, I bet that they always start with this dish and fried potatoes:) It is easy, only a few ingredients are required, it is quick to prepare and is so tasty.
This is probably why it took me so long to [...]

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Ivy on July 25th, 2008

As quick and easy as my dish is, I shall also make a quick post as we are leaving for a few days. We are going to Sparta to our relatives and shall be back next week.
Yesterday, morning we left for the Lake without preparing anything for lunch, so on our way back we [...]

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