My favourite eggplants until now were «tsakonikes» which I thought were the only ones which were sweet. I avoided cooking with the big round purple ones, as I heard that they were bitter. I’ve been seeing white eggplants at the market place for a long time but had never tried them until recently. When [...]
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING
TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO ARE CELEBRATING TODAY
It’s still morning in the western hemisphere, so you can quite easily make these if you have the ingredients at home.
I am sure you have all heard of Spanakopita, so the word Spanakopitakia may ring a bell to you. Spanakopitakia is the diminutive of Spanakopita and [...]
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Elies Tsakistes, (pronounced Eliėss Tsakistėss) are crushed green olives which are harvested when green.
Green olives are usually sold ready to be eaten but if you produce olives and want to make them from scratch, there is a procedure to follow in order that the olives become edible.
First of all you have to crack the [...]
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I have so many recipes I have prepared ages ago and have not posted about them. Today I saw at Deeba’s site the Sensational Sides event, so I decided to post a couple of these recipes.
Beetroot salad with anchovies
Ingredients:
½ kilo beetroots, together with their fresh leaves
2 spoonfuls of walnuts, coarsely cut
250 grams of Greek [...]
Cooking for a family of five involves a lot of cooking and baking and it is sometimes difficult to please them all. A winner dish in my family is patates lemonates sto fourno, which is a side dish you can serve both with meat of fish and some people even love it as [...]
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I do not remember ever mentioning our pet. We have a Siamese cat named Lisa and she is ten years old.
She is also a Math genius.
You must be wondering what Lisa has to do with revithokeftedes. In a way she does because my love for cats grew when I was about 10 years [...]
A few days ago I wrote about the other parcel I received from sweet Nuria and as I promised I am writing about the parcel I received from Pixie before Easter. When Pixie asked me what I wanted I told her that I wanted maple syrup because it was something I saw in recipes and [...]
Continue reading about Courgette Croquettes with Quinoa and Anchovies
This is another Cypriot recipe which is translated “Tossed Potatoes”. They have taken this name from the way they are cooked.
These potatoes are washed very well and then they are cracked and deep fried in olive oil. They are removed from the sauce pan and after leaving about 1/2 cup oil in the pan they [...]
Picture fro last week’s «laiki agora» our farmers’ market.
You can distinguish two different types the one which is 0.75 cents is from Achaia.
In Greece we do not have a lot of varieties of potatoes, such as yellow potatoes, blue potatoes or red potatoes nor do we have names for them. The only potatoes we [...]
Stuffed potatoes
After the Christmas and New years holidays and after eating tons of food and sweets I have decided that it’s about time to post some recipes which I shall label as low fat recipes. Of course I have to point out that I am neither a dietitian nor a nutritionist and if you want [...]
