One of the dishes we tried in Rome was ravioli and I loved their sauce. I don’t know what kind of sauce they make but it was delicious and as I had never served ravioli with a sauce before, I decided to make a marinara sauce to serve them.
In the Piazza di Campo dei fiori [...]
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I was thinking of making a coffee liqueur with the Espresso Natalia gave me and I google searched to see how it is made. I have made liqueurs in the past so I knew the procedure but still I wanted to see if there was something more to do. I found this recipe and since [...]
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The past few years of blogging I’ve read a lot of posts where bloggers talk about their love for Greek yoghurt. However, Greek yoghurt is not availble everywhere around the world and I remember one recent post I read, where the daughter/mother living near the Canadian-American borders, respectively and the daughter would ask her mother [...]
I was really curious to try an original Italian Pizza when we were in Rome, but I must say I was rather disappointed. Unfortunately we did not have the luxury of time to try everything we wanted, as after walking for hours and hours every day, when it was lunch time and were feeling really [...]
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I have a few pizza recipes to share with you, as well as a couple of calzone recipes I made recently using the same dough, so before giving the recipes here is the dough I use.
I’ve been making pizzas for many years but this is my best pizza dough. My friends and relatives say that [...]
I love a good marinara sauce! I have been making this sauce for ages and have realized that I have never posted it before. This sauce is very easy and very versatile and it’s not worth buying the ready-made sauce. Tomatoes are still abundant and cheap and I grow basil in a pot on my small [...]
I suppose most of you will be surprised seeing eggplants served as a sweet. I know that my Greek friends have eaten or heard of melitzanaki glyko. I had to share with you a twist I made to this traditional recipe, in which I added grenadine, not only for the lovely taste, but also to [...]
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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 [...]
I have been preserving beets in vinegar (ξύδι = pronounced ksydi = xydata (in vinegar)) for many years but I have never blogged about it. In most of my recipes with beets, I usually roast or boil more so that I can preserve them and I have used these preserves in a lot of [...]
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Focaccia is very similar to the Greek flatbread named lagana , which I have posted some time ago. As Wikipedia describes focaccia, the basic recipe is thought by some to have originated with the Etruscans or ancient Greeks, but it is now known as a delicacy of the Ligurian cuisine. The only difference between the [...]
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