I have been following Ruth’s Presto Pasta Nights since I started blogging, more than a year ago and it was and is one of my favourite Food Events. Pasta is so versatile that all you need is little imagination and little time to create a delicious meal. It is amazing how pasta transforms around the …
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Kluski z Kapusta is a traditional Polish dish with cabbage and pasta. I made a few tweaks of my own, adding Greek ingredients.
Joan, of Foodalogue, who is one of our Members at BloggerAid, is spreading the word about hunger by posting a series of posts during A Culinary Tour Around the World. During her trips, Joan will be introducing us to some virtual friends she will be making and talking about the country and its culture. As …
I have never made giant pasta shells before but seeing a few posts in the past I knew these would be great so when I saw them at the supermarket I could imagine all the fillings I would try them out with. I was debating what to make. Would it be stuffed with meat or …
Whenever I go to the supermarket with my husband and I see something that I remember reading in a recipe and I would like to try it, I always add to the cart and worry later how to cook it. This happened when I bought some red kidney beans. In Greece we usually eat the …
Brining a turkey makes it moistier. You can either brine it in a water solution with salt, water, sugar and spices or dry brine it.
Dulce de Leche (pronounced DUHL-sey duh LEY-chey) is a confection from Latin America that consists of heating sweetened milk until it caramelizes and becomes all rich and flavoursome! I have been seeing some recipes with Dulce de Leche but I didn’t know what it was until recently when one of you posted a detailed post …
After Boiling and peeling the chestnuts, you can use them in savory or sweet dishes. In order to make a chestnut puree it is best to boil them in water, milk or both, depending on the recipe you want to make, until they become soft. You then mash them the same way you …
When making these roulades I kept singing the nursery rhyme “Oranges and Lemons say the Bells of St. Clement’s” which we used to play in England at primary school:
I had not planned what to cook today and was not really in a mood of cooking anything complicated. I had thawed some chicken breasts from the evening and by the time I finished this morning’s post it was almost noon. I decided to make a pasta dish and improvised with what I had in …