Black forest or Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte, is a famous German dessert and one of my all times favourite cake.
My recipes
After making the pickled cherries I started using them in various recipes. These recipes can be turned into a four course meal.
Although I’ve stopped going to the gym since the beginning of this month as the weather has been very hot, most of the mornings we have been going to the beach for swimming. However, I still want to get some more exercise and there was a great offer on home treadmills which are pliable, …
Dolmades or Koupepia (as we call them in Cyprus) are made from grape leaves (also known as vine leaves) and are stuffed with rice, ground pork or beef, fresh herbs and seasonings. I’ve been revisiting all the Greek traditional recipes over the past year and have been substituting pork or beef minced meat with turkey …
I love making vegetables into pestos but I don’t make the usual Ligurian or Genovese pesto with pinenuts and parmesan. I don’t have anything against parmesan but I love Greek cheeses more and I also prefer to support Greek cheeses, so I have adapted the pestos with local flavours . Regarding pinenuts I am not …
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!
Make your own Greek spice mixture. You can use it to add a little extra flavour to your Greek dishes. It goes well with poultry but also in many more recipes.
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 …