Tyrini Week with Tyrompiskota (Cheesy Savoury Cookies)

Halloumi-graviera pull-aparts are individual filled bread placed next to each other and baked so that when baked they join into one large bread which can easily be separated by pulling each piece.

A savoury cheesecake I made during Christmas, based on the Greek Cretan recipe for Dakos.

Boureki (plural bourekia) is a type of pastry made of a thin flaky dough known as phyllo and are filled with anari (anthotyros or myzithra, as it is known in Greece), which is similar to ricotta.

Moustokouloura cookies can be made either with fresh grape juice or grape molasses. They are perfect as a snack or for breakfast!

Tyropitari pronounced Tee-rho-pee-TAH-ree, is a homemade Greek pastry filled with feta cheese and deep fried, which is served as an appetizer.

These easy Greek Smashed Potatoes are first boiled, drained and smashed. Then a garlic butter is added on top with graviera cheese and broiled until the cheese melts.

Tyropita Kourou is a cheese pie made with a type of phyllo made with butter and yoghurt, which I would describe somewhat like tart dough.

Halloumi Muffins are based on my Kypriaki Tyropita (a savoury halloumi cake) but made in muffin tins which are lined with phyllo pastry.

Creased Cheese Pie is a different Greek pie called Patsavouropita (pronounced. pah-tsah-vou-RHO-pee-ta), which is very easy to make and tastes amazing.   This Greek pie is made by creasing each phyllo sheet and dipping it in a batter made with soda water, eggs and feta.

Eggplants (aubergines) are now seasonal and combined with potatoes and cheese makes this a delicious summer meal.  The secret of this dish is the addition of potatoes which suck up all the deliciousness of the sauce, which make it irresistible.

Moussakas is the most known Greek dish.  Sometimes we want to go meatless, so if you also want to avoid eating meat you should try this amazing recipe, with Greek feta and Italian mozzarella, adding lots of onions,  feta and a marinara sauce and topped with a bechamel sauce with feta in it.  

Halloumi with Caramelized Poached Dry Fruit is a dessert made with grilled halloumi served with dried fruit, poached and cooked with commarndaria.

These Greek Cheese Muffins will disappear in no time! You can make them in no time and are delicious as all the cheese disappear in the batter making them buttery and golden crispy on and fluffy and moist inside.

Marathopitakia are cheese and fennel turnovers

Tiganopsomo, which means fried bread is very easy to make  All you need is any kind of yeasted bread dough, which is fried in olive oil 

Badjina is a Greek regional pie made mainly in the region of Thessaly, which consists of a batter made with milk, olive oil, eggs, goat cheese and corn meal, in which pumpkin is mixed in.

This Easy Feta Pie also called Alevropita, can't get any easier to make. It is made with a batter in which feta is crumbled inside and on top and it is ready in ten minutes.

Caramel cake with two-tone sponge, filled and topped with cream cheese and decorated with homemade white chocolate and caramel.

Read the post for a new recipe made many years later.

Flaounes pr. flah-OU-ness (singular flaouna) is a traditional Cypriot Easter cheese bread made with an aromatic yeasted phyllo dough, filled with a special Cypriot cheese, called Pafitiko, made during the Easter period especially for flaounes,  flavoured with Masticha (mastic resin), mahlepi (mahleb) and mint.