Green Scored and Cured Olives are easy to make at home and make a wonderful snack, appetizer to to accompany many meals, including Greek breakfast.
How to make..
Chocolate puddings are sweet, creamy desserts made primarily from milk, sugar, and chocolate. Puddings typically have a smooth and thick consistency, similar to custard or mousse.
This Banana Jam with Figs, Peaches and Grapes is very aromatic and you can serve it on your toast, muffins, scones, cheesecakes or with a cheese platter.
A Mediterranean-style tomato fruit chutney made with ripe tomatoes, apples, dried fruits, and warm spices. Perfect with meats or cheeses!
I’ve written about purslane (portulaca oleracea) in many other posts. Purslane contains more Omega-3 fatty acids than any other leafy vegetable plant. The stems, the leaves and the flowers are all edible. Ms. Simopoulos states that Purslane has .01 mg/g of EPA. This is an extraordinary amount of EPA for land based vegetable sources. EPA is an Omega-3 fatty …
I have already posted the recipe for making Apricot Jam but this one deserves a separate post just to show you how quickly you can turn some ripe fruit into jam in no time. It took 15 minutes from start to finish. I bought these fruit six days ago and after eating as many as …
Samali is a traditional Greek semolina dessert, flavoured with mastic and drenched in syrup. Some blanched almonds are used to decorate the cake on top.
Mastic powder (Masticha in Greek) (pistacia lentiscus var. chia ), is produced in the island of Chios and comes in resins or tears as they are called. It is very aromatic and used to flavour food.
Melitzanes me tyria (Greek Eggplants with Cheese) is a deconstructed imam bayildi recipe I made, which however, is much lighter and healthier by roasting the eggplants and even tastier by adding peppermint and Greek cheeses, graviera and feta, which also add to the flavour.
The ancient Greeks ate a lot of garlic and used to call it “The Stinky Rose”. Ancient Greek athletes competing in the earliest Olympic games did not turn to steroids to enhance their performance, but to garlic.