Hi everyone. I am back from Cyprus, after visiting my family for a few days. Although the weather was not very good, mostly cloudy and cold, I had a great time. The days passed so quickly and all the days were full, visiting most of my relatives and of course, eating and eating (and again [...]
One of the dishes we tried in Rome was ravioli and I loved their sauce. I don’t know what kind of sauce they make but it was delicious and as I had never served ravioli with a sauce before, I decided to make a marinara sauce to serve them.
In the Piazza di Campo dei fiori [...]
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I love a good marinara sauce! I have been making this sauce for ages and have realized that I have never posted it before. This sauce is very easy and very versatile and it’s not worth buying the ready-made sauce. Tomatoes are still abundant and cheap and I grow basil in a pot on my small [...]
It’s almost a week since we came back from our trip to Italy and was really busy to post as a lot of things had to be done after we returned. We had a great time and I wanted to share some of the shots from Rome. This was not an easy job having to [...]
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Every month there is an event going on at Jenn’s blog, where the winner chooses three ingredients with which we have to cook. Although I love participating at this event as we challenge ourselves to create recipes we would never dream of making, most of the times the ingredients given are not so easy to [...]
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My friend, Natasha, of 5 Star Foodie Culinary Adventures, is hosting an event where she has asked us to further explore the flavours and textures of Macaroni and Cheese by deconstructing it and adapting it to our own culinary style. You still have time by the end of the month to prepare your own version [...]
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Summer Escapes - Part IV - Kladas, Laconias
Kladas is a small village just a few kilometres before reaching Sparta and that is where we usually stay when we visit our relatives.
This is the view of the village from the house and the last buildings near the mountain, is part of Sparta.
This is a view of [...]
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Souvlaki (plural souvlakia), is attested in Greece since antiquity and it was known with the name οβελίσκος (obeliskos), dim. of όβελος (obelos), “spit”, mentioned amongst others in the works of Aristophanes (”Acharnians” 1007, “Clouds” 178, “Wasps” 354, “Birds” 388, 672), Xenophon (”Hellenica” HG3.3.7), Aristotle (”Politics” 1324b19), etc. A meat and bread recipe which resembles the [...]
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When I went to Cyprus last month I brought with me two bunches of cilantro and the bunches in Cyprus are really big.
I used it in salads, I used it in other recipes but still I had too much and as the days passed I didn’t want to see it being wasted, so while it [...]
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Pasta dishes combine a lot of qualities: cheap, quick, easy but most of all delicious!
Just a few days before Lent started, I realized that I had a lot of ingredients in my refrigerator that I had to use and looking at what I had, a Carbonara was a perfect choice. I had leftover pancetta [...]
