Normal 0 false false false EL X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”,”serif”;} Η συνταγή και στα ελληνικά στο τέλος της ανάρτησης! When a child is born and before it reaches the second year of age, the...
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Spanakopita with Handmade Phylo
Η συνταγή και στα ελληνικά στο τέλος της ανάρτησης! Hello my friends! I am back to Athens after my pilgrimage to my father’s village. We had a great time and I found the chance to get some rest and some sleep which I desperately needed. I hope you are all well and had a great...
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Ground Meat Pie (Kimadopita)
Η συνταγή και στα ελληνικά στο τέλος της ανάρτησης! Going back to my childhood, I always remember the stories my father used to tell us about his life as a child. He was born in 1936 in a small mountainous village in the mainland Greece. He was the first out of three children in his...
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Mushroom Pie with Home-made Phyllo
Η συνταγή και στα ελληνικά στο τέλος της ανάρτησης! Next Monday starts a long Fasten period until Easter. For us Christian Orthodox, Easter this year will be on the 5th of May. So up until the 4th of May, those of the people who wish, start a 40 days’ Lent. During these 40 days meat...
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Vegetable and Feta Cheese Tart
Now this is a totally crazy post. I’ve been trying to write about this recipe since the day before yesterday, but things are really hectic around here the last few days. I had only got sometime today before I took my son to his fencing class and I just seized the opportunity. I also want...
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Little Chicken Triangles
It’s a fact, I simply love chicken. I don’t know why; perhaps it is because chicken is such a versatile meat that practically goes with almost everything. Anyway, I had two chicken breasts in my fridge and a package of phyllo sheets that was sitting in my freezer almost forever. I needed to do something...
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Spanakotiropita (Spinach Pie with Feta)
It seems that even more often I get to make Greek food lately. It is perhaps because of the love you show for my country’s food that makes me want to cook Greek. Anyway, I am cooking Greek food the way my family makes it, the way we eat it here. I am sure you...
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Bougatsinia (Small Greek Sweet Cream Pies)
Now these are many adjectives don’t you think? But I couldn’t find a smaller English title for these sweets. Bougatsa is a sweet cream pie that comes from Macedonia, the Northern area of Greece. In this country we have small shops that sell spinach pies, cheese pies, sandwiches, apple pies etc for a quick snack....
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Batzina
I am going to tell you a short story. My father comes from a mountainous village in the central Greece. His village is called Sklithro and is located around 600 m. above the level of the sea in the mountain of Mavrovouni (Black Mountain). The village is very small and not touristic at all. It...
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Chocolate Pie
Everyday my mother picks my son up from school, because I am at work. She takes him at her home which, coincidentally, is next to ours; she feeds him and put him to sleep for an hour. I come back at home at 5.00 p.m. and I take it from there. So, everyday as they...
