Today I will be posting three recipes to make a complete lunch. Marinated pork chops with Pommes Lyonnaises and Tambouli salad. Pork can be made more flavourful by marinating or seasoning before cooking. The main thing to remember when cooking pork chops is not to overcook when roasting, since overcooking will cause the meat to …
Cypriot
Tambouli salad, also written as tabouli or tabbouleh, is a refreshing parsley salad, which is made with bulgur wheat tomatoes, onion, cucumber, fresh mint and dressed with extra virgin olive oil and lemon juice.
Melomakarona are olive oil cookies, bathed in honey syrup, with walnuts and cinnamon, which traditionally, are made during the holiday season of Christmas and New Year.
These Cypriot Kourabiedes are similar to the Greek ones but they are made with spry shortening, which makes them soft and fluffy.
These traditional Cypriot cookies, called “koulourakia sigma” due to their “S” shape, are flavoured with blossom water.
Ellinikos Kaffés, which means Greek coffee, is one of the healthiest in the world. Recent studies have shown that a cup of Greek coffee a day is very good for your healthy and for longevity!
Christopsomo, which translates as “Christ’s Bread”- pron. Christopsomo also named kouloúra tou Christoú (round bread of Christ), is usually a round loaf often made with the same ingredients as Easter bread. Raisins, nuts, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg are just a few of the taste treats found in this traditional sweet loaf.
A time-tested traditional Christmas cake recipe which is filled with homemade fruit preserve, as well as nuts, raisins brandy and treacle.
Using glycerin in the icing ensures that it is not hard. The lemon juice adds flavour and also helps to make a softer icing.
Place your baking tin on the parchment paper and trace a line round the tin using a pencil. (I used a marker so that it would be better shown in the picture). Cut the parchment paper about 1/2 centimeter inside the line and place it in your tin. With a baking brush grease the paper …