Ivy on December 27th, 2008

I suppose most of you know how to brine a turkey but for me this was the first time.   I decided to try it this year and it is a fact that it produces a great tasting turkey which is tender and juicier.
I am glad I decided to brine it this year as I do [...]

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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 15th, 2008

Sunday morning was cloudy and rainy but that did not discourage us at all. Our son called us in the morning to see if we still wanted to go out in the rain. We had planned to visit Les Jardains Botaniques (Botanical Gardens) and Le Chateau des Penthes and we did [...]

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Ivy on October 20th, 2008

I few days ago I posted about Galatopita which was the dessert I made for our Wedding Anniversary. That day I also made this recipe. You probably all know by now how much I love mushrooms and this is a recipe I’ve been making over and over again since I made it [...]

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Ivy on September 28th, 2008

I was looking for grilled chicken breasts recipes and found this teriyaki chicken recipe. However, I did not have any teriyaki sauce, in fact I didn’t even know what teriyaki sauce is, so I google searched further and read a few recipes. I did not have all the ingredients, so I [...]

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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 15th, 2008

Μy friend Nuria, of Spanish recipes, posted this recipe which I really liked, so a couple of days later I decided to make it.

I have not changed anything to this recipe and I must say it was just as Nuria described it in her post. Best of all were the croquettes and I was [...]

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Ivy on August 19th, 2008

I found about sumac reading various recipes but this is not a spice you can get in your neighbourhod supermarket here in Greece. Perhaps you can find it in large supermarkets or in small shops selling middle eastern products but those are not easy to find.
A few weeks ago, when my son went [...]

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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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Ivy on August 7th, 2008

Today as I was looking for the vegetarian recipe of okra to link it to this recipe, I realized that I had not blogged about it.
There was a time that I was writing recipes here and there but did not post the same recipe simultaneously on the blog as well. I wrote about [...]

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