A few weeks back I was drooling over some cupcakes my friend Cakelaw, from Laws of the Kitchen made and the next day I decided to make some. I did not have exactly the ingredients so I used both plain flour and self raising flour and reduced the baking powder, I added orange essence as …
Desserts
Glyko kerassi (Cherry preserve), is one of the best traditional fruit preserves, called “spoon sweets or glyko tou koutaliou”, which can be served alone or used in many other desserts.
Vazania, as they are called in the Cypriot dialect, (in Greece they are called melitzanes), is a simple dish made withe fried eggplants and potatoes, which are cooked, together in a tomato sauce to make them “giahni” (stewed). This vegan dish, uses only a few ingredients, so it’s not only frugal but also very delicious.
Panna cotta is an Italian easy dessert, which means “cooked cream”. This dessert is a pudding which is thickened with gelatin and then molded.
If you want to increase the amount of omega-3 fat in your diet, the best way is to eat more fish such as salmon, trout and mackerel. Eating broiled, baked or steamed fish two to three times a week is a good way of increasing the omega-3 fat in your diet. Last Tuesday I went …
Koupepia me lahana, are the Cypriot version of dolmades, made with Silverbeet leaves, instead of vine leaves, cooked with tomatoes.
Baklavas is one of the most famous Greek desserts. It is a rich, sweet pastry made of layers of phyllo layers, filled with chopped nuts, drenched with syrup.
Karpouzopita, which comes from the words “karpouzi” (watermelon) and “pita” (pie also meaning flat) is a traditional Greek recipe coming from the Cyclades and having its roots in the antiquity.
Glyko Karpouzi is a fruit preserve made with the rind of the watermelon (karpouzi in Greek pronounced Glee-KHO kar-POU-zee), so whenever you get a thick skinned watermelon, you can use the rind to make this sweet fruit preserve.
Purslane (portulaca oleracea), grows everywhere so it is considered by many as a weed. However, if you don’t have a garden you can also find it at the farmers’ market. It has so many health properties that we should all start eating this wonderful treat offered to us so generously by nature.