On Thursday I was cooking marinated pork chops and I wanted to make a side dish to accompany the dish. There were some spring onions, parsley and mushrooms in the refrigerator, which had to be used, so looking in my pantry I had some parboiled rice, vermicelli and cashews so I decided to combine all [...]
Afelia is a Cypriot dish with pork which is marinated with red wine and coriander seeds. My tweak to the traditional recipe is that I added more spices to it and added some mushrooms as well which made it quite unique and I served it with pilafi pourgouri, a bulgur pilaf.
Bulgur known as πλιγούρι, pligoúri, [...]
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Like bulgur pilaf, in Cyprus we make rice pilaf with vermicelli pasta. We usually add tomatoes in the pilaf as well, just like the bulgur pilaf. The vegetables are my addition to this recipe and you can add whatever boiled or steamed vegetables you like. I did not add tomatoes but used [...]
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We’re back from our short get away. I want to thank you for leaving your lovely comments and have read all of them but need some time to reply and to visit you all. Hope to do this during the weekend.
This year we decided not to visit any island but [...]
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Rice Pilaf, has its origin from the Persian pilau also called polao, pilav, pilaff, plov or pulao in other languages. One of the earliest literary references to pilau can be found in the histories of Alexander the Great when describing Bactrian hospitality.
Bactria was an eastern Persian (Iranian) province, which was the birthplace of Alexander’s wife [...]
