An acquaintance of mine who just started reading my blog, asked me the other day if I was a vegetarian. I guess I can see where hes coming from. I havent posted a recipe containing meat of any kind s...
Theres nothing that screams Spring more than fresh, green asparagus.About a month ago, I ate my first asparagus of the year. It was more of a ritual rather than a simple act of eating. It began with ...
On Friday night, I made ice cream. Well, I say Friday night but I started at around eleven-thirty so I guess, technically, it was Saturday morning when I finished. I know not many people make ice cre...
Im pretty sure youre sick of me complaining about the weather all the time. Im sick of me too. But I cant help it. In Greece, I used to complain that it was always too hot during spring, now that Im ...
It seems like the seasons are going in reverse right now in Holland. Winter is back, with a vengeance. The radiators are on full blast, my woolen socks are once again covering my feet and I feel the ...
Im in my living room, sitting in front of my computer. I have a cold, one of those colds that you least expect to get because the past few days have been so sunny, spring was in the air and flowers w...
Sunday, noon.Two hungry people.Fresh bread from our neighborhood bakery.Fresh baby spinach in the fridge, fresh broccolini, lots of feta, and just a small piece of Parmesan.When hunger strikes, creat...
What I love about Greek tsoureki, besides it being the most delicious sweet bread there is, is all the things I can do with it.The simplest thing to do is slather it with a decent, or better yet obsc...
Today was the second day of Easter and my fridge was full of eggs. I had no idea what to do with them.Im not a fan of eggs. Theyre not my favorite food in the world, to say the least. Especially hard...
For us Greeks, Pascha (Easter) will be this Sunday. Lent is finally in its last days and come the end of the week, the whole country will be roasting lamb on a spit or in the oven and eating kokorets...
I said this again about two weeks ago, Im not giving up on citrus fruit yet.When I went to my greengrocers the other day, I found the most amazing blood oranges looking up at me from one of the stall...
When someone is kind enough (thanks mom) to send you a huge piece of Kefalotyri cheese from home, along with some orzo and Greek thyme honey and numerous other foodstuff youve been craving for months...
You take a mandarin in your hand and you press your finger against and into the peel. You rip part of it open and the small molecules of juice and heady aroma come flying out into the air and penetra...
Today, I made the most beautiful loaf of bread.If it was possible for someone to fall in love with bread, I would be in love with this loaf.And its not all looks, it has substance, baby.Moist, airy, ...
I used to make fun of the Dutch when, in the early spring, they would go out on their balconies every time the sun came out even for a few minutes, lie on their large lounge chairs and soak it in. No...
Its the easiest thing to do yet not many people know how.Heres how to do it.Special equipment: baking paper, scissors.• Take a piece of baking paper, a bit larger than the area you want to cover.• Fo...
I love the color green. It calms me, much like blue calms others.It always catches my eye, everywhere. Especially in nature.Holland is a very green country, filled with greens of every hue, especiall...
Lately Ive been feeling out of touch and disconnected; from my surroundings, the people around me, from my own self. Do you ever feel that way? When all you can think about are the problems, the minu...
Whenever you want to use in a dish mussels that are still in their shells (live mussels), use preferably fresh ones, although you can also use the ones sold packed in water (vacuum-sealed). Make sure...
Growing up, I never ate savory tarts. My mother never made them. She always prepared the traditional Greek pies with thin or rustic phyllo, or even puff pastry, filled with Greek cheeses, spinach or ...
I didnt know what a brownie was until about four years ago. In Greece, they had just become popular, along with cupcakes, but it wasnt until I moved to Holland that I experienced the real brownie, wh...
Ideally, I would prefer to use in my cooking fruits and vegetables that are in season and that dont come from thousands of kilometers away or from another continent but from the country I live in. Th...
I have told you this before; Im not a huge lover of cookies. But every once in a while, I come across one that steals my heart away, one that makes me want to eat it again and again.Granted, these ar...
Half of the second floor of our apartment is a music studio. I dont know if I have told you this before but S and I are both musicians. S plays electric guitar and writes music and I sing.When I firs...
One of the worst things that can happen to a person who loves cooking and eating good food, is a bout of gastritis. I have never experienced anything like this before and let me tell you, it is not p...
I was thinking of telling you about my New Years Day feast but then I thought it would be cruel to describe succulent pieces of roast pork with honey, thyme and orange juice, crispy pork skin, melt-i...
There are not many things I can say about 2011 other than that it wasnt a very good year for me in many respects. I cant wait for it to end and for 2012 to begin.I never do the whole resolutions and ...
... I will be cooking a goose. I will be making goose fat-roasted crunchy potatoes (one of the best kind of roasted potatoes, the recipe of which I definitely have to share with you sometime), glazed...
Im not much of a cookie person so for me, this time of year is not all about endless hours in front of the oven, baking batch after batch of cookies.The only cookies I do make repeatedly during the h...
I would love to tell you how this dish will change the way you view carrots forever. I would love to tell you how this dish was a revelation for a non carrot-loving person like myself. I would even l...
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