This month’s Tried & Tested is featuring Kevin of Closet Cooking. This event was an original idea by Zlamushka of Spicy Kitchen. Each month a blogger is featured and we have to choose one of his/her recipes and recreate it and blog about it. This month’s host, is Hema of Salt [...]
To all the Greek and Cypriot friends and readers of my blog “Chronia Polla” for today’s National Holiday, Ochi Day.
I have been seeing so many pumpkin recipes popping up everywhere in the blogosphere and with Halloween coming up soon I thought to share these recipes with you in case you wish to make something different [...]
Continue reading about Kolokythopita me Myzithra (Savory Pumpkin Pie)
Now that it’s summer and very hot, it’s hard to stay at home, so I have been away during the weekend and we came back last evening. I’ve had too many other things to do, so I haven’t had time to visit friends but hope to do this soon.
After the Beef and Pork Galette, I [...]
Continue reading about Tyropita me Maratho and Watermelon Salad
Thank you to all of you who’ve written to me over the past few days, either at the blog, facebook or by private e-mail, to express your sympathy and kind thoughts.
I am really grateful to have such good friends which I met through the internet.
Life, however, does go and time is the best healer of [...]
When I saw this pastry at The Constanble’s Larder, I loved it immediately and knew immediately what to do with it. Check out Giff’s post to see a lovely vegetarian galette.
The first recipe I used this Provençal Pastry was to make a Meat Galette,
then another meat galette but with a different filling
I loved the simplicity [...]
A few months ago I told you how I made Cypriot Pita Bread and how easy it was to make. Ever since I learned how to make them we have been enjoying them in all sorts of sandwiches especially with halloumi and lountza or eating them with dips, like hoummous, taramosalata, tzatziki or melintzanosalata but [...]
Today is a day we celebrate in Greece by cooking or baking anything with cheese and so it is called Tyrini (tyri = cheese) and as it is always on a Sunday we call it Cheesy Sunday. Just like carnival is celebrated by eating all the meat before lent (carne levare meaning remove [...]
Some people feel afraid to handle phyllo. Well, don’t worry if you can’t roll out the phyllo, it’s not as difficult as you may think. If you have a pasta machine it’s really easy but I will also guide you, step by step how to roll out the phyllo.
Once you make the dough, which should [...]
Continue reading about How to make …Dough and roll out phyllo






