These baked peaches with butter, honey and cinnamon are so easy to make as it only needs takes five minutes to prepare them and fifteen minutes to bake them. The addition of butter, honey and cinnamon makes a caramelized syrup to serve them with.
My Cookbook Mint, Cinnamon & Blossom Water, Flavours of Cyprus, Kopiaste, has finally been translated into Greek and published on Smashwords. The Greek title of my cookbook is “Kopiaste stin Kouzina mou”, which means Welcome to my Kitchen. If you can read Greek or have Greek friends who would like to win it, please leave your comment on …
Vegan Black Beans Spanakopita (spinach pie) is not the usual spanakopita you make but adding black beans makes a new filling and healthy spanakopita suitable for the fasting days of Lent.
Kifylla is a sweet bread, filled with raisins and glazed with sugar on top and it used to be sold in Cyprus in the central streets, in wheeled carts.
I’ve been really busy the past days since the book has been published as there are so many things to do for the promotion of the book, answering e-mails, trying to catch up with your posts, baking and cooking. I have found out today when I got my first sales report, that the book has …
The first dusting of snow arrived this morning and it’s windy and cold outside. The temperature suddenly dropped from 22 degrees C yesterday to 4 degrees C today. I hope that this will not last for long as I don’t like cold weather. Yesterday we went to Nafplion. You can see a video I took …
The proof finally arrived today, just before 2 p.m. and I bet everyone in the neighbourhood heard me yelling from excitement and joy. I wanted to kiss the courier and literally ripped open the package and quickly went through it to see that everything was in order. There was a lot of emotion, hugging and …
This event was about to take place a couple of weeks ago and while I was preparing a post, I got an e-mail from my publishers that there would be a small delay due to a technical problem. I am not going to get into how I felt and my frustration at the time, as …
I finally made it and finished my first cookbook! I submitted the pdf last night and keep my fingers crossed that there will be no technical glitches. If everything is in order then hopefully it will be ready for sale sometime in December. I shall keep you posted. After almost one year of hard work, …
This rocket salad with fried halloumi and walnuts can be made with summer fruit such as figs or peaches and it is so delicious it could star as the main attraction on your dinner table.