Pollo alla cacciatora is a classic Italian dish made with chicken braised in a tomato-based sauce with onions, garlic, and various herbs, such as basil and oregano.
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Although in my last post I mentioned that it would take a long time to have an internet connection, things turned out much easier than what we were originally expecting and got the telephone line installed a couple of weeks after we arrived. It was a real odyssey to relocate and three weeks later most …
Can you believe it has been five years since I started blogging? I myself find it hard to believe that I made it so far. I am an Aries and Aries tend to get bored very easily but although there are times that I do feel tired of blogging, I seem to be hooked with …
I am really excited to announce that I joined a group of home bakers helping each other to achieve perfection. I saw the announcement at Reeni’s blog and there was no second thought. I never joined the Daring Bakers as I was afraid I could’nt cope but I think I’ve gone a long way since then …
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.
Making cobblers, crumbles, crisps, etc., I think is the best way to use leftover fruit. The distinction between them, however, has given me headaches, so lets see what these are.
My daughter Elia, who is 20 years old, rarely cooks. Her specialty is mostly pasta dishes, which she loves and resorts to making some for herself whenever I cook something she doesn’t like. She is still in that phase of life where she hates mostly everything. She always complains of too much onion, too much parsley, …
Bread Pudding is an old fashioned dessert which is made in many countries which had an English influence.
Pirozhki or piroshki or Piroski (as we call them in Greece, with stress on the last syllable), are made from yeast dough and filled with a variety of fillings and are great for snacks, appetizers, lunch or dinner.
Borscht, also spelled borsch, borsht, or bortsch, is a beet soup of the Slavic countries. Although borscht is important in Russian and Polish cuisines, Ukraine is frequently cited as its place of origin.