Ivy on February 1st, 2010

1st February today and “Kalo Mina” as we Greeks wish each other at the beginning of each month, which is a wish to have a great month.
I have been asked by Sierra Rose to review her cookbook, “Mom’s Favorite Recipes” which is a collection of classic American recipes, like Chocolate Chip  Cookies, Southern Style Nut [...]

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Kaltsounia or Kalitsounia, is probably the most known Cretan recipe.   Remember my post on Calzone where I mentioned the connection of the two names?
Kaltsounia can be either with a sweet or savory filling and the pastry shell differs in each case.  Savory Kaltsounia use a pastry phyllo in which they add raki and for filling [...]

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Ivy on October 7th, 2009

I found this recipe here on The Food Network.com with extremely high ratings and since I have been seeing a lot of Tyler Florence recipes in the blogoshpere, I had to see for myself what this was all about.
I must say I was not disappointed, although the caramel made the pie extra sweet, too much [...]

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Ivy on June 30th, 2009

Now that it’s summer and very hot, it’s hard to stay at home, so I have been away during the weekend and we came back last evening.  I’ve had too many other things to do, so I haven’t had time to visit friends but hope to do this soon.
After the Beef and Pork Galette, I [...]

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Ivy on June 24th, 2009

Thank you to all of you who’ve written to me over the past few days, either at the blog, facebook or by private e-mail, to express your sympathy and kind thoughts.
I am really grateful to have such good friends which I met through the internet.
Life, however, does go and time is the best healer of [...]

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Ivy on June 21st, 2009

When I saw this pastry at  The Constanble’s Larder, I loved it immediately and knew immediately what to do with it.  Check out Giff’s post to see a lovely vegetarian galette.
The first recipe I used this Provençal Pastry was to make a Meat Galette,

then another meat galette but with a different filling

I loved the simplicity [...]

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Ivy on June 9th, 2009

As I said in my previous post I will be having guests for the next two weeks and whenever time allows, I shall try and visit a few friends each day.  I usually get up early in the morning when everybody else is fast asleep so that’s the time I will be probably visiting and [...]

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Ivy on October 25th, 2008

Whenever I go to the farmers’ market I never plan what to buy. I know, of course, what the basic things I need are but there are things which I buy depending on the price, which are not in my plans. This week for instance I bought some pomegranate, quince, pumpkin, apples, [...]

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