Epiphany – Sweets for the Goblins

(Picture taken from the book: “Αερικά-Ξωτικά και Καλικάντζαροι” of Θ.Βελλούδιου)
According to the Greek tradition ‘kalakantzaroi’ are terrible creatures that leave under the earth and which all year long are trying to cut the tree of life which is the foundation of the earth. On Christmas Eve when their work is almost finished, they come to earth [...]

Christmas Bread – Eat it all year round

Happy new year my dear readers!!!
Christmas might be over but we can still eat some of the nice Christmas treat like this bread. This is a very festive bread which was a big hit on the dinner I had for my birthday two days ago. My birthday is on the 22nd but I decided that [...]

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 [...]