Peinirli, pronounced Paey-Neer-LEE (peynir, Turkish for cheese) is a kind of an open faced pita (or you can even describe it as a pizza shaped gondola) with kasseri cheese, often topped with other ingredients as well.
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Tyropitari pronounced Tee-rho-pee-TAH-ree, is a homemade Greek pastry filled with feta cheese and deep fried, which is served as an appetizer.
Homemade tortilla chips are easy to make, cost almost nothing and are so tasty you cannot resist eating just a few. You can flavour them with herbs and spices of your choice and in no time you have a delicious snack to serve with a dip, a sauce, to accompany your drink or eat …
When Zorra of Kocktopf, invited me on Facebook, to participate to the Bread Baking event, I wasn’t sure what to make but I decided to take the challenge. This month’s theme is breadsticks and according to our host, Marion it doesn’t matter if they are thick, thin, long, short, straight or crooked, as long as the bread or …
This Dynamite Smoothie is made with Acai Berries juice and many other immune boosting fruit, full of antioxidants and vitamins.
Soon after Easter I started watching my diet again but reading blogs all the day, there are some times I am really tempted to make some of the recipes I see. Being on diet doesn’t mean that you can’t eat a dessert once in a while or a snack. Instead of eating anything else in …
Glystarkes or glistarkes or gyristarkes, from the Greek verb γυρίζω = turn, is a kind of Cypriot grid-like crusty, sesame rusk.
These Greek muffins with Kalamata Olives and Greek Cheese are easy to make and wonderful as a snack to to accompany any meal instead of bread.
Making phyllo from scratch may be a little bit intimidating, not that it’s difficult to make. However, here is Greece we have a big variety of phyllos, each one different in taste and texture. Apart from the thin phyllo everyone knows which is used to make baklavas, we have “horiatiko phyllo” which is a phyllo …
My friend Aparna, of My Diverse Kitchen is hosting the Bread Baking Day #12- Small breads. What Aparna wants from usis to make anything like buns, rolls, biscuits, bagels, waffles, beignets, doughnuts, croissants, bread sticks, pretzels, etc. and we can make them sweet or savory, plain or stuffed, or add fruit/ vegetable/ nuts/ seeds/ herbs/ …