This vegan Greek Fava Santorinis and Pumpkin Soup is made from scratch and is healthy, filling and perfect as a starter for a dinner party or a light supper.
Desserts
Kok pronounced like “coq” or the smaller, mini ones which are called kokakia (pr. coqakia) are small sponge cookies which after being wet with syrup, are filled with a vanilla pastry cream and then the top sponge is covered with a chocolate ganache.
This Red Velvet Strawberry Cake is the most incredible Cake, with Cream Cheese filling and frosting. It is fluffy, soft, buttery and moist with the most perfect strawberry taste made with real strawberries!
These vegan Pommes Lyonnaise is a twist to the French recipe, which I recently made for Kathara Deftera (Clean Monday).
Tyrompiskota (pronounced Tee-roh-mpi-SKOH-tah) literally mean cheese biscuits. I made them based on other shortbread cookies I have made in the past by adding cheese and spices.
Spetzofai (pr. Speh-tzoh-FAH-ee) or sometimes written spentzofai is a Greek traditional recipe from Pelion, Thessaly. The traditional recipe is made with local sausages and lots of peppers, especially a hot variety called spentzes, from which the dish takes its name.
Macarons are the new madness, frenziness, fashion, trend or whatever else you want to call it in desserts. It is a meringue cookie and its main ingredients are egg whites, sugar and ground almonds. Macarons can be filled with buttercream, jam, lemon curd, pastry cream, whipped cream, chocolate ganache or any other filling you like.
Gavros Plaki (baked anchovies) is one of the relatively cheap fish and that is why it is called “fish of the poor”.
During the season it is fished in abundance it ranges around 4 – 5 Euros a kilo and when the catch is not good, around the period when there is full moon, it reaches maximum 10 Euros a kilo.
This Chicken Trahanas Soup is creamy and nutritious because apart from its own qualities, many vegetables are also added to it.
Patsavouropita is a traditional Greek, delicious savory pie with phyllo and feta, which is very easy to make and tastes amazing.