Every Easter I like to do two things; firstly to paint red eggs and secondly to make tsoureki. Tsoureki is like challah. During my lifetime I have tasted many tsourekia, some of them were good, some awful and some of them exquisite. It is true that homemade tsoureki is not the same as the store-bought....
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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...
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Cheesecake with Strawberries
I don’t know what has happened and I lost all my pictures of the two things I cooked yesterday. The one was a cheesecake and the other was chicken thighs with teriyaki sauce. Thank god there is the internet and I took this picture from there. This picture is very close to the one I...
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German Chocolate Cake
Cake is a sweet that was very easily incorporated into the Greek range of sweets. We make all sorts of cakes and we have learned to love and appreciate them. As I told you, during this weekend I had plenty of time, because of the snow that held us inside. So, I decided to make...
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Molten Spiced Chocolate Brandy Cakes
I just wanted a recipe that would be easy, since now that schools are open, during afternoons my son is studying and I have to supervise him. Most of the afternoon passes by exactly by doing this, thus I do not have the time to cook anything. Anyway, yesterday I decided to make this cake...
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Cinnamon-Apple Cake
I am always in the search of a really good apple cake. I have tried many. Some of them were total failure, some of them were ok and some of them were good. This cake falls into the last case. It is a good, tasty apple cake. But, it is not the cake that...
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Apple Scones
This recipe comes originally from another blogger Anne and her blog Anne’s Food but I made my own alterations so as to adjust it to my family’s taste. Anyway, if you want the original recipe you can find it on the above mentioned blog. What I did basically is to increase the amount of...
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Molten Chocolate Cake
Now, isn’t this oven glove cute or what? I couldn’t resist the idea of photographing it and I found this opportunity with these cakes. My mother bought them for me and I think they are lovely. Anyway, yesterday my son finished studying early enough to allow me to go to the kitchen and make these...
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Chocolate Walnut Pie
In Greece walnut pie is a traditional sweet. It is more of a cake than a pie, but we call it pie. Anyway, it is very tasteful and we eat it a lot during winter. This one is a twisted version with chocolate. The recipe originally comes from my favorite greek pastry chef Stelios Parliaros...
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Molasses Cookies
I was looking at my closet the other time and I have noticed that I had a jar of molasses almost intact. So, I started my search through the internet, so as to find a recipe that would help me consume most of it. And I found it. It comes from another blogger Culinary Chase...
