Traditional
Tsoureki is a kind of sweet bread which we did not use to make in Cyprus, or at least my mother didn’t, so this is something I have learned after coming to Greece. The other day I was looking through my old note book with recipes and I found this magazine clipping which I had [...]
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Halloumi is indigenous to Cyprus and is one of a few cheeses made in Cyprus, so as a Cypriot and a food blogger this is something I wanted to try and make myself. Halloumi has been made in Cyprus for hundreds, not to say thousands of years and the recipe was given from mother to [...]
Bakaliaros (Cod) is another Greek traditional dish which has become synonymous to the 25th of March, which is the Annunciation of Virgin Mary and on that day we also celebrate the Revolution against the Turks in 1821. The Annunciation in Greek is called Evangelismos and those named Evangelos or Evangelia celebrate their name day. My [...]
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Today is a day we celebrate in Greece by cooking or baking anything with cheese and so it is called Tyrini (tyri = cheese) and as it is always on a Sunday we call it Cheesy Sunday. Just like carnival is celebrated by eating all the meat before lent (carne levare meaning remove all meat) [...]
Chilopites are traditional Greek egg and milk pasta which are cut either long like tagliatelle and fettuccine or in very small pieces of about 1 cm long and are ideal as a side dish or in soups. They are cooked in many ways: as a side dish with myzithra on top, which is a local [...]
Spanakopita or in this case it is also called spanakotyropita, as it has a lot more cheese than usual, is one of the best pitas we Greeks make and there are even different types of phyllo used for this pita. My family prefers a pie with more crust than spinach so I always make the [...]
Continue reading about Spanakotyropita (Extra Cheesy Spanakopita strifti, village type phyllo)
Cypriot pitta bread are much different to the Greek pitas. They are flat breads like the other pita but are different in shape and in taste. I’ve been in Greece for 27 years and have never found any, at least where I live. (After a year, writing this post, you can find Cypriot pitas in [...]
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For my last posting for this year I chose a traditional Greek pastry, which is prepared and served on special occasions. I wish to extend to all of you my sweetest wishes, hoping that your New Year will be prosperous and as sweet as diples. Diples (pronounced dipless and meaning folded) Last but not least [...]
Two Saints for Christmas St. Nicholas or St. Basil? Two saints are involved in giving presents to the children, two different persons, both of Greek origin and who were both bishops. One is St. Nicholas or Santa Claus for the West and the other is St. Basil, (in Greek Aghios Vassilios) or as he is [...]
At the beginning of this month I wrote about the tradition of baking Christopsomo (which translates as «Christ’s Bread») and I baked one so that the readers of my blog could actually see the whole procedure beforehand and bake one on Christmas Eve, if they liked. Today however, is the day we are actually baking [...]
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