Fassolakia yahni is a traditional Greek vegan and gluten free dish with green beans and potatoes in tomato sauce, which is easy, tasty, cheap and healthy.
Mediterranean diet
A healthy Greek lentil salad with lots of vegetables for a nutritious lunch or side packed with protein.
Indulge in the savoury goodness of baked tope steaks marinated in zesty lemon, mustard, and aromatic herbs. This easy recipe is a seafood lover’s delight!
Cheesecake is one of our favourite desserts but being on the Mediterranean Diet, for a few months now, I didn’t want to make something loaded with calories so I adapted an older recipe and made this “no guilt” Apricot Cheesecake.
Eating healthily according to the Mediterranean Diet, does not mean depriving yourself of all treats! If you want to eat a dessert every now and then, just be smart about what you eat. All the ingredients I used to make this cream is low fat. I used low fat cream, low fat Greek yoghurt and …
The strawberry season is almost ending and now you can get them quite cheap. If you like having strawberries, year round (not that they’ll last so long) you can preserve them. Imagine eating your ice cream with strawberries and strawberry syrup in August, or making strawberry panna cotta in winter. The leftover syrup is a …
Piperies Florinis are red long sweet peppers, named after the prefecture of Florina, in Norther Greece, where they are produced. I read that these Florina red sweet peppers have been growing in Florina for centuries and date back to antiquity. They were probably brought back to Macedonia from India by the descendants of the troops …
This Dynamite Smoothie is made with Acai Berries juice and many other immune boosting fruit, full of antioxidants and vitamins.
Did I hear anyone saying that healthy food is bland and boring? Well, I hope to change your mind with this recipe of mine. When I went to the farmers’ market last week, I got some courgettes and was thinking of boiling them with carrots for a healthy salad. As I usually buy lots of …
Mahalebi is a cream we make in Cyprus like pudding. The traditional way of flavouring this cream is with rose water, rose syrup and orange blossom water. Back at home my mom served it with spoon sweets and a little syrup on top and my favourite would be with bitter orange spoon sweet. For a …