Back in the summer when I was experimenting with gelatin, I made this dessert with watermelon. The dessert was nice and refreshing but it was not too sweet so if you ever try and make it add a little bit more sugar, say 1/2 a cup. The jello part on top was unintentional and I …
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Glykia Tyropita, which means sweet cheese pie, was inspired by Cypriot Bourekia, which are made with homemade phyllo, anari (whey cheese similar to ricotta), cinnamon and orange blossom water.
Rolo me patates is made with ground meat in which we addd hard boiled eggs and make a roulade, like a meat loaf, and bake it in the oven. In Cyprus we enclose the roulade with caul fat, which melts as it is being baked in the oven and gives a wonderful flavour to the …
I was looking for grilled chicken breasts recipes and found this teriyaki chicken recipe. I didn’t know what teriyaki is, so I google searched further and read a few other recipes as well. I did not have all the ingredients, so I decided to go along with what ingredients I had at home. Instead …
Making phyllo from scratch may be a little bit intimidating, not that it’s difficult to make. However, here is Greece we have a big variety of phyllos, each one different in taste and texture. Apart from the thin phyllo everyone knows which is used to make baklavas, we have “horiatiko phyllo” which is a phyllo …
In Greece we usually make a no bake, easy cheesecake and for those of you who have never tried this baked version, I strongly recommend it. If you cannot find pecans, you can substitute them with walnuts. A mistake which is usually made by novice bakers is that they add too much butter to the …
A colorful and savoury Festive Cypriot rice pilaf with vermicelli pasta, pine nuts and raisins.
Tyropita Kourou is a cheese pie made with a type of phyllo which I would describe somewhat like tart dough.
This Linguine with Calamari dish is delicious and full of Greek flavours.
When I made the fig jam at the beginning of this month, I began thinking what to do with it. I remembered when I was still in Cyprus (that’s 27 years ago) we used to buy some biscuits full of fig jam in them and they were my favourite. I used to eat the whole …