Spices
With Christmas just two weeks away, I would like to thanks my readers with a giveaway of each volume of my e-cookbooks. The books are available on the following formats for you to choose: Online Reading (HTML, good for sampling in web browser) Online Reading (JavaScript, experimental, buggy) Kindle (.mobi for Kindle devices and Kindle apps) [...]
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It is very easy to make your own spice mixture. You can season chicken, fish or other meat or add it in marinades. If you don’t like any of the spices, just skip or add something else you like. Greek Spice mixture Preparation time: 5 minutes Makes: about 5 tbsp Ingredients: 1 tbsp oregano [...]
The history of Greek red saffron or Krokos Kozanis (Crocus Sativus Linneaus plant) dates back to prehistoric Greece. In modern Greece, it starts again in the 17th century when traders from Kozani, Macedonia, bring the red saffron back from Austria. For 300 years, Greek red saffron is systematically cultivated under the warmth of the Greek [...]
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One of September’s grapes is called fraoula, which means strawberry. I do not know why it is called strawberry but I suppose it could be because of its colour or taste. We usually don’t eat grapes except for the seedless sultana grapes but for some unknown reason when I saw them at the [...]
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Gyristarkes, from the Greek verb γυρίζω = turn, now commonly known as glystarkes or glistarkes, is a kind of grid-like crusty, sesame rusks. The bread sticks are dipped into sesame seeds and then they are shaped beginning with a cross (as it had a religious meaning as well) and then other bread sticks are added [...]
Continue reading about Glystarkes (Cypriot crusty, sesame rusks)
I have the pleasure to announce that I am going to be this month’s host of Think Spice, created by Sunita, of Sunita’s World. When I contacted Sunita way back in May, last year, asking if I could host one of the events, Sunita gladly replied to me that I would host in February. My [...]
Continue reading about Think Spice.. Think Twice: Mastiha (Mastic Gum) or Fennel Seeds
Wow, how time flies and it’s time to make the Christmas Cake again. I have been making this same Christmas Cake for ever, long before I was married. This year I have decided to change everything. Firstly I’ve changed the decoration. They do not make Christmas Cakes in Greece so I cannot find new Christmas [...]
I recently discovered an Asian store where I had bought some Indian products and one of them was garam masala. The ingredients written on the package I have bought are: Coriander, cumin, pimento,nutmeg, pepper, cardamom, clove, fennel and bay leaves. When I asked my friend Swati, of Sugarcraft in India, if garam masala means spices, [...]
Some cakes which are not part of our culinary habits have been adapted by us and added to our cuisine. Among these cakes is the Christmas cake, which must have been introduced to us when Cyprus was a British Colony. I can remember it from my childhood and I have been doing this recipe [...]
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