Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone…
(the photo is from our Christmas cake. I will give you the recipe some other time)

Kitchen disasters – trying to make gingerbread cookies

Murphy’s law: If anything can go wrong it will. And in my case it always goes wrong. Last Monday I attempted to make ginger bread cookies so I can decorate them nicely and write a post about them. At the same time I was trying to make a spicy carrot soup which I wanted to test [...]

Christmas cookies – Stuffed kourambiedes

Kourambiedes are traditional cookies made by all good Greek housewives before Christmas (the rest buy them from confectioneries). As with all traditional foods there are many variations of the recipe adapted to fit individual tastes. Kourambiedes are buttery cookies containing almonds. In our house, we prefer to insert the nuts as stuffing because this distinguishes [...]

Christmas Charity – Menu for Hope

 It’s Christmas time and time and food bloggers around the world join together to raise money to offer food to those who are less fortunate. This event is called “Menu for Hope” and it is held for the forth time this year. This year, the money will go to a school feeding program in Lesotho. [...]

Giant (gigantes) Beans – The king of fasting

According to the Orthodox Church any good christian should follow a fasting regime to prepare oneself for big events like Christmas and Easter. Fasting includes “cleaning” the body and soul from any passions.
As Greeks are traditionally religious, fasting has become part of the tradition and thus many traditional recipes have been created as a result. [...]

Comfort food – Egg and Lemon Soup

See below another post from my friend Christiana…

Don’t you ever notice that this time of year – just about before Christmas – everybody around you is getting sick? A little cough here, a runny nose there, and next thing you know you’re lying in bed yourself holding a box of tissues. And that, I think, [...]

What is tapioca anyway?

Tapioca is not known in Cyprus at all. So if you asked me one month ago about tapioca pudding I would say I would think that it is a pudding that a Japanese lady Mrs. Tapi-Oka makes. I first discovered tapioca after seeing Heidi’s post and I was intrigued to try it. I was very sceptic about finding [...]