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...
Category: Greek Cuisine
Petimezi – Greek Grape Molasses – Nectar of The 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...
Recipe for Pastitsio – Greek Lasagne
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...
Recipes For Five 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Recipe – Traditional Greek Moussaka
Moussaka is a baked, Eastern Mediterranean dish, which originated in Turkey and the Middle East. It consists of layers of potato, aubergines (eggplant) and a tomato-based minced-meat sauce, all topped off with...
