These Healthy Olive Oil Honey Oatmeal bars have a crunchy base with a subtle olive oil and coconut taste and the topping is like a dessert we make in Greece with nuts and honey called pastelli.
Mediterranean diet
In Greece we love fish recipes and most of them I keep rather simple. Fresh fish is wonderful seasoned with only salt, pepper and oregano and then grilled or broiled. It is then served with “ladolemono” sauce.
During the Great Lent period which is 48 days before Easter, the Orthodox abstain from eating foods containing animals with red blood (meats, poultry, game, fish), as well and products from animals with red blood (such as milk, cheese, eggs, etc.) Fish with backbones are not allowed but mollusks like squid, octopus, shrimps, mussels etc., …
Here are some of my delicious salads, for every season, time and occasion. Salads make eating colorful, fresh foods easy and delicious.
Revithosalates are Greek salads made with chickpeas. Chickpeas are one of my favourite legumes and I always cook them from scratch.
Fassolada is considered to be the national dish of the Greeks because the Greeks survived those poor years eating dried legumes and vegetables. Meat was eaten rarely and only on special occasions. Even until early sixties, meat was eaten only on Sundays but after a few decades of prosperity we are back to “psorokostena” …
I’ve been busy the past days as I am now trying to make the book into an e-book, but this turned out harder than I anticipated. However, we still have to eat and since it was really cold here in Athens last week, cold days call out for hot soups. I first made this soup …
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.
Kotopoulo Portokalato is a chicken recipe of mine which is very easy to make, as the only thing needed is to marinate the chicken in a roasting bag with orange juice and other ingredients and then bake it with potatoes. You forget it in the oven until it is done without having to watch over it or turn it over.
This Turkey Pie Roulade is made with homemade phyllo dough and stuffed with leftover turkey. If you do not have leftover turkey meat from your roasted turkey, you can use minced turkey instead.