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• Lemon and fresh basil linguine with Belper Knolle
  on Jun 24, 2012 in linguine one pot Belper Knolle cream basil parmesan parmiggiano lemon za'atar pasta
  Ever since before we bought a house and moved into it, one of my "not exactly requirements but sort of on the back of my mind" was to have a big windowsill where I could put herb pots to grow. You see the previous house had absolutely none of that, t...
• Mixed nut, dried fruit, coconut and chocolate granola
  on Jun 10, 2012 in dried fruit honey muesli cereal porridge cashews chocolate nuts hazelnuts coconut granola oats almonds
  Ah... something healthy finally. It's been a couple of months since I've been feeling like I've been eating quite badly, and a recent "your body fat percentage has increased by 5% in the last two years" in my health check report didn’t help in appe...
• Breadmaker rosemary and sea salt focaccia
  on Apr 24, 2012 in focaccia yeast sea salt bread rosemary breadmaker
  Ah bread... Really, if there is one thing that I miss in this country, it's probably good bread. Something that is intrinsically simple and can be found in every corner in other countries (France, Italy, Spain, Greece...) here is a "gourmet" item, on...
• Crabcakes (just that!)
  on Feb 25, 2012
  We all have things we've liked eating since we were kids (pizza, French fries, souvlaki for me, in about that order of preference), and then there are some things we've never eaten in our lives and suddenly we discover and they become all-time favour...
• Coffee, hazelnut, walnut and raisin biscotti
  on Jan 16, 2012 in biscotti hazelnuts coffee walnuts raisins
  Hmmm...biscotti... The year before last, we went to Italy at Christmas-time and spent a few days with a lovely friend and her family, who gave us the best Christmas we've had in our lives...It was so memorable and warm that everything about it wakes...
• Pork chops with cider, apples and sage
  on Jan 9, 2012 in sage cider pork apples
  I never make new year's resolutions. They're kind of stupid, and I feel that they can just throw you into a deep depression if year after year you count how many you "failed at". But, every new year I see things that I like, like people deciding to t...
• Sweet potato, squash, chorizo and goats' cheese tart
  on Dec 31, 2011 in squash goats' cheese chorizo butternut squash rocket butternut sweet potato
  Ah, ah... Not only were my last two posts all full of whining (mostly about 2011 misfortunes), but the unluck continues until the end of the year... I'm so happy I'll be rid of it by tomorrow, and hopefully 2012 will be a little wee bit more easygoin...
• Frangiminci pies (Frangipane-topped mince pies)
  on Dec 25, 2011 in christmas sweets frangipane mince pies mincemeat almonds
  Remember what I was saying in my previous post? 2011 has definitely not been a good year, and from what I gather from grumbling friends, not just for me... Thinking that the end of the year couldn't bring any more disasters, we had arranged for my mo...
• Kourampiedes (Traditional Greek Christmas sweets)
  on Dec 22, 2011 in κουραμπιέδες christmas sweets kourampiethes pistachios kourabiedes kourampiedes greek sweets traditional sweets kourabiethes almonds
  I know, I know. It's been a long time, no post. Oral spank spank. But I haven't given up, oh ye who worry and pester me! It's just that...well...life sometimes takes up time. Like, ALL OF IT. In the last few months a few hundred thousand distracting...
• Flourless chocolate brownies with nutella swirl ice cream
  on Apr 11, 2011 in ice cream gelato nutella brownies vanilla chocolate almonds
  This weekend was the first really summery one we've had since last year, and luckily a couple of friends of ours, who had recently bought their first house, invited us for a BBQ on Saturday. The weather was beautiful, just BBQ-perfect, and the food w...
• Butternut squash, pine nut and sage ravioli
  on Mar 14, 2011 in squash sage pine nuts ravioli burro e salvia butternut squash parmesan zucca parmiggiano marcato pasta
  A few weeks ago, as I mentioned in a previous post, my partner was in Athens for business, and I was left alone in London craving souvlaki, Greek pizza and everything else that he was posting in facebook as a status update with the words "I am eating...
• Lemon, lime and lavender cupcakes
  on Mar 12, 2011 in lavender James Martin lime muffins cupcakes Saturday Kitchen lemon icing
  Sometimes I bake because it makes me happy, but most of the times I bake as it makes other people happy too. If I ate everything I make solely myself, my ass would be the size of China by now, so happily sharing my love of food with others serves thr...
• Recent culinary adventures abroad...
  on Feb 18, 2011 in Palermo Rome Italy Ubud travel Singapore Athens Indonesia pizza Gili Air wedding food Amed Bali Mexico Sicily
  I know I haven't written a post in a while. A long while. The main reason is that winter has brought with it the infamous English 3 o'clock nights (where by 3 o'clock in the afternoon everything is pitch black) meaning that taking decent photos of th...
• The most amazing Breadmaking Christmas party
  on Dec 10, 2010 in ciabatta sourdough Ben MacKinnon baking classes bread e5 bakehouse breadmaking bakery Michel Roux Junior Great British Food Revival
  We all know the usual pre-Christmas restaurant outing/outrage. Desperate office boys and girls around London huddle around overpacked restaurants, eat restrictive bland 3-course menus with 2 choices of main, 2 of starter and (if you're lucky at all)...
• Gooey chocolate and almond cookies
  on Nov 15, 2010 in cookies baking crinkle chocolate almonds
  Ah...cookies. My life-long weakness. Ever since I was a kid, I've lived on cookies, any kind of cookies. Apologies to the severely British, but I can not call them "biscuits". Biscuits in my severely sugar-damaged bread are something salty, not sweet...
• Caramelised apple cinnamon cake
  on Oct 16, 2010 in cinnamon cake spices apples
  Ah... Autumn. The cold is seriously setting in now, due to an unexpected boyfriend cold yesterday we threw out the window our resolution to NOT turn the heating on in the house until November started, and here I am looking at gloominess outside being...
• Spiced honey duck with caramelised sweet potatoes
  on Sep 29, 2010 in duck honey coriander sweet potato spices ginger
  Mmmm...duuuuuck... Thus spoke my boyfriend at the idea of buying some breasts of this favourite of ours to cook at home. Little did we know that unexpected commitments would come up, disasters would strike (like the day I came back home from work, li...
• Pear and chocolate frangipane tart
  on Sep 26, 2010 in tart pears frangipane chocolate almonds
  It's official. The winter is here. And yet, somehow I feel like I've been saying this since weeks ago. But then again, weeks ago I didn't have to get the "autumn" coat out, neither did I think for a second that I would feel like turning the heating o...
• Orejitas (Sugar and cinnamon cookies)
  on Sep 12, 2010 in orejitas cinnamon puff pastry sugar Mexican cookies
  For those of you who were wondering where I've been for the last few weeks, I had a brief holiday back in Greece to attend my best friend's wedding, see family and friends and get some last sun for the year! Now, the sun part didn't exactly happen as...
• Nameday Lemon meringue pie
  on Aug 16, 2010 in shortcrust meringue pie lemon
  No, this is not a special pie called "nameday". Name days are even more important in Greece than birthdays. A name day is the day of the saint whom you're named after, and as it happens, mine falls on one of the most popular days of the year. (Ironic...

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