Cherry Pie

 

Light Tuna Salad in Arabic Pita Bread

Delicious Tuna Salad without extra fat in Arabic Pita Bread!

Prefer tuna in water and add extra virgin olive oil, chopped vegetables, pickled cucumber. You will have a very tasty snack!

Melomakarona, Christmas Cookies with Chocolate Nibs

Melomakarona are traditional Greek cookies, served during fasting period before Christmas and the following festivities.

Their name comes from honey, meli in Greek. Nobody can stop eating, especially if they are filled with chocolate!

Stuffed and Baked Potatoes

Baked Potatoes, stuffed with cream cheese are a delicious appetizer, easy to make. They are ideal for a festive or Sunday dinner and they replace perfectly the common baked potatoes in a foil or a potatoes soufflé! Try them!

Vasilopita 2017, Greek New Year's Lucky Cake

This New Year Lucky Cake, Vasilopita 2017, it is a delicious cake with special ingredients. It contains dried figs puree, dark rum and orange zest: these ingredients give to cake a special taste and texture.

Because figs are sweet, no need to add too much sugar.

Chocolate Truffles with Tangerines

A Christmas Wreath of Appetizers

I suggest decorating your this Christmas dinner table with an unusual wreath of sea food instead of a platter with appetizers!

Your family or your guests will be appreciated!

Of course, feel free and replace any ingredient that is not to your taste!

Skaltsounia, Lenten Filled Cookies

The Lenten Skaltsounia are Greek traditional cookies, with biscuit dough, filled with nuts, dried fruits, fruit preserve or jam.

   

Spice Cake with Olive Oil, Orange and Chocolate Drops

If you love “sweet” spices, this is a very fluffy, with spices and olive oil cake, no egges added, ideal for morning coffee or tea. This cake is delicious, because spices and orange make the difference! 

Spices can be dried aromatic leaves, seeds, fruits or roots.

We add then in food, sweets (cakes or marmalades), ice creams and liqueurs. 

Ancient medicine and botany books mention spices as very important drugs, ideal to treat various human diseases.

Homemade Lemon Liqueur, Limoncello

An easy, very aromatic and delicious homemade liqueur, ideal to be served at the end of a festive meal!

Let’s prepare it because at this season there are many fresh and juicy lemons are in the markets.

Orange, Cinnamon and Olive Oil Cookies

Crispy, like biscuits, cookies with delicious taste and wonderful combination of orange and cinnamon flavors!

Enjoy them with a cup of tea or coffee! 

Coiled Mixed Greens Pie with Polenta

Mixed greens and herbs pies are among my favorite pies, because they are delicious and very healthy.

In the filling of pies I often use to add a few tablespoons of semolina. But in this recipe I tried polenta cream and the pie became perfect. Especially the  filling remained fluffy and very 

juicy!

Cabbage, Carrots, Apple and Greek Yogurt Salad

It is not difficult to combine classic winter salad ingredients, such as cabbage, carrot and celery, with Greek yogurt and utilize as much as possible in order to achieve a rich and very tasty salad!

This salad will beautify our Sunday dinner table or a festive buffet!

Double Chocolate Truffles

These double chocolate truffles are pretty easy to make but delicious and with a very crispy texture!

The white chocolate blends perfectly with crushed wafers and sweetened milk and almonds play the role of “a hidden ingredient” that gives another dimension to the taste!

Homemade Raffaello Truffles

The original Raffaello are small, white, round, chocolates made from coconut, crispy wafer and white almonds.

They are very popular in Italy, even in Greece!

Fried Eggplants with Tomato and Garlic Sauce

A very tasty summer dish with friend eggplants and a simple tomatoes sauce with garlic and basil, which blends beautifully with the slight bitterness of eggplant and adds flavor and aromas.

If you accompany the eggplant with fresh homemade bread and a good goat cheese, you will have an excellent combination!

Try it!

Easy Apple Cake

Apples are great seasonal fruits, tasty, juicy, perfect for filling in tarts, making jams, Cup Cakes or Strudel.
Let’s use them to make a delicious cake. Enjoy their sweet fragrance flooding the kitchen, offering our family a great pleasure!

White Bean Salad

The white beans, very rich in protein, can be cooked and served in many ways; i.e., as soup, salad, as well, with fresh vegetables and flavored with a variety of spices.

Broccoli, Mushroom and Bell Pepper Omelet

Omelets are popular everyday fast meal or a great square breakfast.
The traditional Greek omelet consists of tomatoes, green peppers, onions, feta cheese and olive oil. It is often served along with Greek salad

Artichokes with Broad Beans

Fresh broad beans are sweet and delicious pod beans with a smooth creamy texture. In Greece they are more popular than the dried ones and usually cooked with fresh artichokes.