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Panna cotta with pomegranate sauce

Greek Cuisine

How to Make the Perfect Panna Cotta

    Creamy, milky desserts are my weakness. I choose, crispy-topped crème brulee, a wicked piece of custard tart, or a good, old-fashioned milk pudding, over “Death by chocolate” every time.  A wobbly panna...

Petimezi – Pure, concentrated grape juice – The world’s oldest natural sweetener.

Greek Cuisine

Petimezi – Concentrated Grape Juice – Nectar of The Greek Gods

    Exactly what is petimezi, this delicious, sweet elixir, the world’s oldest natural sweetener, created in ancient Greece thousands of years ago? Hippocrates the father of medicine mentions petimezi as long ago as...

Pastitsio (Greek Lasagne)

Greek Cuisine

Recipe for Pastitsio – Greek Lasagna

  I love the kind of food that can be cooked first thing in the morning and then just left until it’s time to eat.  This enables you to get on with the rest...

Traditional Greek Christmas Sweets

Greek Cuisine / Greek Customs traditions & celebrations

Recipes For Traditional Greek Christmas Sweets

    Christmas in Greece, as anywhere else in the world, involves large quantities of food.  In any Greek home over the Christmas season, kourabides, melomakarona and dipples, can be found piled high on...

Spaghetti with Greek country sausage sauce

Greek Cuisine

Recipe – Greek Country Sausage Spaghetti Sauce

  Christmas is just around the corner so I’m finally making a start on the preparations. MGG (My Greek God) is down in the basement, hunting out the Christmas treasures, the tree is up...

Quick Greek Tomato Sauce with Basil

Greek Cuisine

Recipe – Quick Greek Tomato Sauce with Basil

    Oh, I’m late home today, it’s already one o clock and we usually eat at two, I’ve not even thought about lunch! After putting on my thinking cap I came up with...

Giouverlakia  (Youvarlakia) – Greek meatballs with rice in tomato sauce

Greek Cuisine

Recipe For Youvarlakia – Greek Meatballs in Tomato Sauce

    Youvarlakia –  Giouvarlaki – Uvarlakia   Whichever way you choose to spell it any of these variations are delicious! This is Greek comfort food for those colder days. Youvarlakia are Greek meatballs...

Youvetsi, Greek beef stew with orzo pasta

Greek Cuisine

Recipe – Giouvets – Youvetsi – Beef Stew With Orzo Pasta

    It’s Sunday, time for the traditional, Greek family lunch and one of the most popular Greek dishes; “Giouvetsi”; beef stew with orzo pasta (Kritharaki, or, manestra in Greek). This is the ideal...

Authentic Greek Moussaka

Greek Cuisine

Recipe – Authentic Greek Moussaka

    Why do I still insist on asking my Son what he would like to eat?  Will I never learn?  As soon as the question is out of my mouth, I could kick...