Η συνταγή και στα ελληνικά στο τέλος της ανάρτησης! Christmas is just around the corner and I thought I should share with you some of our customs for these holly days. As Thornton B. Edwards a folklorist married to a Greek girl says: “The Christmas tree is a recent innovation and formerly a Christmas ship...
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Christmas Buttery Cookies, Kourabiedes
Η συνταγή και στα ελληνικά στο τέλος της ανάρτησης! Life, sometimes, has a very weird way of revealing persons and things totally unexpectedly. Usually, a person is able of making friends at his/her adolescence and these friendships can last forever. Nevertheless, it just so happens that life brings into your path a person, who is...
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Chocolate Mont Blanc
Η συνταγή και στα ελληνικά στο τέλος της ανάρτησης! Today in Greece we celebrate Saint Catherine (Katerina). Today is my name day. As I have told you before several days per year the Greek Orthodox Church celebrates a particular Saint and that day, everyone who has the name of this Saint celebrates as well. The...
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Venizelikà or Greek Truffles
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Galaktoboureko
Η συνταγή και στα ελληνικά στο τέλος της ανάρτησης! As I have mentioned in a previous post after the loss of war from Turkey in 1922, Greece had to accept about 1,500,000 Greek refugees from Asia Minor who had to abandon their homes and land and come here. Greece at that time was completely broke...
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Puffy Nests Filled with Vanilla Cream and Apples
Η συνταγή και στα ελληνικά στο τέλος της ανάρτησης! I dreamed about this sweet! Seriously, I was sleeping a few days ago and I was dreaming about sweets. I woke up in the middle of the night and I said to myself: “These puffy nests will be the post on the coming Monday.” Can you...
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Little Chocolate Baklava Bites
Η συνταγή και στα ελληνικά στο τέλος της ανάρτησης! As I have mentioned to you before, Greece was under the Ottoman Empire for 400 years between 1453 and 1821 when the rebellion of Greeks has started, in order to be released from the Turkish chains. But even after the 1821 only one small part of...
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Fanouropita (Saint Fanourios’ Pie)
Η συνταγή και στα ελληνικά στο τέλος της ανάρτησης! In Greece the majority of population is Christian Orthodox. This religious form resulted from the schism of 11th Century A.D. The schism between the Eastern and Western Mediterranean Christians resulted from a variety of political, cultural and theological factors which transpired over centuries. In 1054 the...
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Copenhagen
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Panorama Triangles
Η συνταγή και στα ελληνικά στο τέλος της ανάρτησης! As you all know Athens is the capital of Greece. The second largest city of Greece is Thessaloniki. Thessaloniki is the capital of the region of Macedonia and we call it co-capital. It has a history of 2,300 years behind it, as it was founded in...
