Traditional Greek Macedonian Halvas, is one of the main Lenten sweets. It’s main ingredient is sesame, which is turned into tahini and used to be sweetened originally with threpsini, which is a natural sweetener produced from raisins. During the War, when the Germans had confiscated all the production of raisins in Greece, other sweeteners were …
Cypriot
Daktyla, also called daktyla kyrion (meaning ladies fingers) is the most popular Cypriot dessert made with phyllo which is very crisp and very juicy, filled with almonds, cinnamon and sugar. They are fried and then drenched in syrup, scented with anthonero (orange blossom water), which make them irresistible.
Pantzaria Xydata (pronounced pan-TZAh-rhia Ksee-DAH-tah) are beets preserved in vinegar, which are one of our favourite vegetables to preserve.
Kollyva, is a sweet dish prepared with boiled wheat berries, nuts, raisins, pomegranate and spices, which is taken to church to commemorate our deceased during funerals or memorials.
Fun Faces Today I wanted to post something easy as my sister has come from Cyprus and will be staying with me for a week, so I don’t have much time to visit your blogs and spend a lot of time on the computer. I have being doing a lot of cooking and my recipes …
Glyko Milo is a Greek fruit preserve made with a Greek variety of apples called Firiki (Pijrus Malus ή Malus Communis), which are very aromatic.
Awards It’s been ages ago (early December) since my friend P.G. of My Kitchen Stories, has awarded me with the Hard Working Food Blogger, Award and it’s not that I forgot about it but I did not find much time to blog about it with all the work which has to be done with BloggerAid. …
This morning when I visited my friend Rosa, of Rosa’s Yummy Yums, she had a fun meme which she saw on a French blog, asking bloggers to post a couple of photos when they were young. I found it quite amusing so here are a few photos when I was a child. I was crying …
Kydoni (quince) is known from ancient years and its cultivation is said to have preceded that of the apple culture. Many references to «apples», in the ancient years may have been to a quince.
Kalikantzari, which are malevolent goblins, in Greek and Cypriot folklore tradition, get out of the depth of earth during the twelve days of Christmas.