Quince
Christmas time is a period when we all over indulge into baking cakes, cookies, and other Christmas treats. We bake so much that we eat and eat and they never seem to end. Now, if you are lucky and working, you can always «get rid» of a few calories by taking some at your [...]
Continue reading about Quince Gingerbread Yoghurt Cheesecake – Uses for leftovers – Part I: Cookies
Quince is one of my favourite spoon sweets and I made it three times this year. The first and second time I made it the same way as I had previously posted the recipe and my children loved it. My son who was coming from Switzerland for the Christmas holidays told me that he wanted [...]
Continue reading about Glyko Kydoni kai Kastano (Quince and Chestnut spoon sweet)
Quince is known from ancient years and its cultivation is said to have preceded that ofthe apple culture.Many references to «apples», in the ancient yearsmay have been to a quince. Among the ancient Greeks, the quince was a ritual offering at weddings, for it had come from the Levant with Aphrodite and remained sacred to [...]
Continue reading about Pork Tenderloin with Quince, Prunes and Chestnuts
In Greece and Cyprus we like preserving fruits and you can make what we call glyka tou koutaliou (spoon sweets) with anything you can imagine. Quince is one of my favourites but it was the first time I attempted to make some. The procedure is almost the same for a lot of fruit. The only [...]
Continue reading about Glyko Kydoni me Amygdala (Quince Spoon Sweet)
Whenever I go to the farmers’ market I never plan what to buy.I know, of course, what the basic things I need are but there are things which I buy depending on the price, which are not in my plans.This week for instance I bought some pomegranate, quince, pumpkin, apples, bananas and grapes. (The bananas [...]
Continue reading about Autumn Fruit Crumble: Pumpkin, Apples and Quince.
