Pollo alla cacciatora, is an Italian dish, which translates and hunter’s chicken. I don’t know if game, such as rabbit was originally involved and later on chicken was used to deserve its original name or if whether it is just hunter’s style chicken, the way the hunter cooked his chicken or whether when the hunter…
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Pesto Mafioso from Sicily
A few days ago when I posted the Scarlet Pesto with Piperies Florinis I was planning to call it Red Pesto and google searching to see if there were other pestos with similar names I found this pesto and knew from that moment that it was something I wanted to try. Pesto alla Trapanese or…
Low Fat Greek Strawberry and Apricot Yoghurt – Cream Cheese Panna Cotta
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…
Greek Herby Shrimp Risotto
Chronia Polla – Happy 2010!! I hope you all had a wonderful time. Unlike Christmas day, we had a wonderful time during these holidays. The weather here in Greece was fantastic and more like Spring (I heard on the weather forecast that it was the hottest New Year day the past hundred years) so with…
Baked Meatballs and Homemade Cheese Ravioli and Malfaldine
One of the dishes we tried in Rome was ravioli and I loved their sauce. I don’t know what kind of sauce they make but it was delicious and as I had never served ravioli with a sauce before, I decided to make a marinara sauce to serve them. In the Piazza di Campo dei…
Pull me up with a Tiramisu
Tiramisu is an Italian dessert made from ladyfingers that have been lightly soaked in espresso coffee, layered by a cream made from whipped egg yolks, sugar, and mascarpone cheese. The last layer is topped with cocoa powder or grated chocolate.
Calzone
Another thing we tried, while in Rome was Calzone. Although I had heard of calzone, I thought it would be much smaller and imagined it to be something like a turnover with phyllo pastry, similar to the Greek bourekia otherwise called Kaltsounia in Crete (do you see any similarities in the name?). However, kaltsounia are…
Healthy Homemade Greek Ladenia vs Italian Pizza
Ladenia is a vegan flatbread, similar to pizza, which comes from Kimolos island. The traditional ingredients on top the Ladenia are onions and tomatoes.
Easy Homemade Marinara Sauce
This homemade marinara sauce recipe is easy tomake with just a few ingredients such as ripe tomatoes, garlic, herbs, and onions.
A different approach to Insalata Caprese
Insalata Caprese, which means Salad made in Capri, the region of Campania, in Italy, is a simple salad using plum tomatoes, mozzarella, basil, olive oil and season
