Dolmades are stuffed vine leafs filled with minced meat and rice or when made vegan, just with rice and herbs. If you are using fresh vine leaves wash and then put them in a sauce pan with plenty of water and boil for 5 minutes.   If you are using frozen ones, follow the same …

This is one of the easiest vegan cakes to make as you just mix all the ingredients together.  It tastes delicious and would’nt guess it is vegan.

Kalamari or Calamari is the culinary name for squid and is very popular in Greece, as it is a delicacy found on the menu of almost all the Greek restaurants.

Anthotyros (from the words anthos meaning flower and tyros meaning cheese),  myzithra or anari, which is the Cypriot equivalent, are traditional cheeses which are manufactured from ewe’s milk – and/or goat-milk whey.  After making hard cheeses such as kefalotyri, graviera, halloumi etc., goat or sheep’s milk is added respectively to the whey and these cheeses …

Tyropita (pronounced Ti-ROH-pee-tah) is usually made made with layers of buttered phyllo and filled with feta.   In this Tyropita I used Kataifi and five different kind of cheeses.  You can add only feta if you prefer and other cheese that melt well when baking.

Spanakopita (Greek “σπανάκι + πίτα”, spinach + pie) is a Greek pastry with a filling of spinach, feta cheese (sometimes in combination with anthotyro, which is a soft white cheese similar to ricotta, onions or green onions, eggs, herbs and seasoning.

Several days ago I gave you a recipe for a Birthday cake which I called Black Temptation. Today I am going to give you a similar recipe with similar ingredients but have made a few changes and the taste is completely different. Ingredients: You need a sponge cake (see recipe).   Add 1 tbsp lemon zest. …

A simple syrup sugar is made with sugar and water.  Usually the ratio is one part sugar and one part water,  for a medium, not very sweet syrup.  

Using the basic recipe for making a Spong Cake, there are so many ways to decorate it by just using your favourite ingredients. Here is one of my favourites: We shall need: Ingredients: 1 dose of sponge cake (see recipe) 1 dose of pastry cream (see recipe) 1 dose of whipping cream (see recipe) syrup …

Sponge Cake (pantespani, in Greek) is the base for many desserts. Using this basic recipe you can make birthday cakes but also many other desserts.