Ivy on Μαΐου 15th, 2010

Soon after Easter I started watching my diet again but reading blogs all the day, there are some times I am really tempted to make some of the recipes I see.
Being on diet doesn’t mean that you can’t eat a dessert once in a while or a snack.  Instead of eating anything else in the [...]

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Ivy on Σεπτεμβρίου 25th, 2009

Summer Vacation Parti V : Mystras’ Panigyri and Parori

Mystras or Myzithras (Greek: Μυστράς, Μυζηθράς) meaning cheese-maker probably because they made the Greek cheese myzithra there. Mystras, which is situated on a steep foothill on the northern slopes of Mount  Taygetus, 6 kilometres northwest of Sparta, was a fortified town in the medieval Peloponnese. In [...]

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Ivy on Ιανουαρίου 4th, 2009

Whenever I go to the supermarket with my husband and I see something that I remember reading in a recipe and I would like to try it, I always add to the cart and worry later how to cook it. This happened when I bought some red kidney beans. In Greece we usually eat the [...]

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Ivy on Δεκεμβρίου 19th, 2008

Years ago, before refrigerators were invented or even before electricity, can you imagine how people lived?
We stuff our refrigerators with lots of products and whenever we feel like cooking we just thaw something and cook it.
Back then people had hens and turkeys, rabbits and other domestic animals in their yards, which they [...]

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Ivy on Δεκεμβρίου 14th, 2008

Bombari is a Cypriot traditional recipe which resembles like sausage but it is actually a cooked meal. My mother used to make this and we loved it.   Although I did not have a recipe for this, however, I could remember the way she used to make it and I tried to recreate it. I [...]

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