Η συνταγή και στα ελληνικά στο τέλος της ανάρτησης! Today begins for us Orthodox the Holy Week, following during the weekend, our Easter. On Saturday night ends the 40 day lent and people celebrate the resurrection of Christ. Saturday night we go to church holding candles and at 12 o clock the priest announces that...
Post
Orange Fudge Brownies
Η συνταγή και στα ελληνικά στο τέλος της ανάρτησης! What do you think about birthdays? Is it a fun moment for you or it brings you a sweet melancholy by reminding you the fact that another year has passed? Is it a day of joy or is it a day of retrospect and resetting of...
Post
Moustokoúloura (Traditional Grape Molasses Cookies)
Η συνταγή και στα ελληνικά στο τέλος της ανάρτησης! During this past year my husband and I are in a control weight program. That means that we are following a certain diet that helps us maintain our weight stable. As the years pass by, I feel more and more the need to keep my weight...
Post
Lemon Cake with Egg Yolks
Η συνταγή και στα ελληνικά στο τέλος της ανάρτησης! All past week I had a terrible cold that was bugging me and I was dragging my miserable body back and forth from work to home, to the supermarket, to household works and son’s studying and back to work next morning. One thing I hate about...
Post
Vasilopita for 2013
Every year during New Year’s Eve, Greek housewives make the vasilopita. Vasilopita is a either a cake or a tsoureki and is a custom that comes from the very early Christian years. Just after the coming of the New Year or the next day the Chief of the family cuts the vasilopita. The person, who...
Post
Spiced Chocolate Cake with Glazed Chestnuts and Dried Nuts
I am sure you all have experienced a situation, when you buy a product to use it in a particular sweet or savory dish and eventually it lingers in your closet or fridge for numerous days and when you open either of them, it just stares at you, making you feel guilty for not utilizing...
Post
Molten Chocolate Cakes
Today is my birthday! I am officially 42 years old. I will spare you of all my inner thoughts, fears and resolutions I usually make this day, or every other day as a matter of fact and I will just offer you these little treats, which are absolutely ‘chocolaty’ and decadent. I found this recipe...
Post
Olive Bread (Eliopsomo)
First I would like to apologize to all of you for not being able to visit your blogs the last couple of days, as I am a little sick. Sore throat, nose that sneezes and generally all these beautiful and exciting things that come with the common cold. I avoid sitting in front of...
Post
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....
Post
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...
