Stew
A couple of months ago, my friend Natasha posted a Beef Stroganoff recipe. Natasha lives in the United States but her roots are from Russia so when I saw an authentic version of this very popular dish, I knew I had to try it. Please visit Natasha’s blog to see the original recipe and [...]
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Bœuf à la Bourguignonne, also called Beef Burgundy is perhaps one of the most famous dishes of Julia Child. The first time I ate Bœuf à la Bourguignonne was decades ago when I was still single and I have the recipe written in an old notebook, probably taken from a magazine. I cooked it for [...]
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The other day when I was writing the post for the Vegan Black Bean Spanakopita, I was craving these beans again so the next day, I made them into a casserole dish with lots of vegetables and tomato sauce. Dried legumes are very healthy as they are a good source of protein, fiber, iron, calcium, [...]
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The modern Greek word is arakas αρακάς. Mpizeli in Greek μπιζέλι (or pizeli as it is pronounced in Cyprus), comes from the italian word pisello - in latin pisellum pisum a name which originally was Greek from the ancient Greek pissos – pisson (αρχαία ελληνική πίσος ή πίσον (αντιδάνειο) and borrowed back from us. [...]
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Today as I was looking for the vegetarian recipe of okra to link it to this recipe, I realized that I had not blogged about it. There was a time that I was writing recipes here and there but did not post the same recipe simultaneously on the blog as well. I wrote about okra [...]
Continue reading about Kotopoulo me Mpamies (Chicken and okra stew with feta)
This is a dish I used to cook many years ago and I can’t even remember where I got the recipe from, probably from a magazine. I have copied the recipe in my first recipe book and as my husband also enjoys cooking every now and then, when I used to work he would cook [...]
From all the dried legumes, in Greece, fassolada (and NOT fassoulada, which is the way the peasants used to call it), is a hearty navy beans stew (or soup if you like) and is considered to be the national food of the Greeks. In the stew (or soup) various vegetables such as carrots, potato [...]
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