A very moist, delicious and healthy Vegan Flaxseed Carrot and Banana Cake with spices, sandwiched and topped with Coconut cream frosting and Bergamot fruit ...
Lenten Recipes
Tahinopita me Mila (Tahini Bread with Apple Filling)
Tahinopita is a Cypriot bread filled with tahini, sugar and cinnamon. It is shaped into a coil, fattened and baked. The traditional Cypriot Tahinopita is amazing but can ...
Penne Skordalia with Courgettes and Olives
Penne Skordalia is an easy and healthy pasta dish made with Walnut Skordalia, a Greek diip made with olive oil, garlic, bread and walnuts. It is one of those recipes where it ...
Three Recipes with Thrapsala (Short-fin Squid)
Thrapsala (Illex coindetti or shortfin squid) are of the same family as calamari but much more cheaper, at least here in Greece, but equally delicious. As I do not ...
Vegan Coconut Mandarin Samali (Semolina Cake) with Vegan Whipped Cream
Samali is a traditional Greek semolina dessert, flavoured with mastic and drenched in syrup. Some blanched almonds are used to decorate the cake on ...
Octopus (Htapodi) with Mushrooms and Homemade Hilopites
Fresh octopus (htapodi) is one of the most popular appetizers served in Greek tavernas. However at home we cook it in many other ways and is one of our ...
Krema Karpouziou me Ryzalevro (Watermelon Rice Pudding)
I love to make fruit preserves and at the end when we eat the fruit there's always some leftover delicious syrup, which has absorbed the flavour of the fruit but also ...
Lentil and Bulgur Spicy Salad
This Lentil and bulgur Spicy salad is not Cypriot dish but some of its ingredients are much closer to Cypriot cuisine, as I was inspired to make it by a Bulgur Pilaf we ...
Lagana with Garlicky Olives, Sun-dried Tomatoes and Rosemary
Lagana is a Greek flatbread traditionally baked for Clean Monday, the first day of the Great Lent. It has an oblong shape", decorated by impressing fingertips and ...
Anginares à la Polita (Vegan Artichokes)
Anginares or agginares à la polita is a dish originating from Constantinople, in Greek Constantinoupolis, also called "Polis" meaning the city of ...
