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I love experimenting with different flavors and I like recipes that can be changed by switching a few ingredients or spices. This Simply Saucy Chicken does just that. You can get 4 different recipes or create a different one just by looking in your refrigerator. Check out the other recipes that I have here.

Simply Sauc… Continue

I love mushrooms of all types and what’s better to do when it’s cold and you have mushrooms? Mushroom Soup of course. I found this recipe here and must say that it was easy to make and one of the tastiest mus

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Preparation time: 1 hour

Baking time: 25 - 30 minutes

Makes: 30 mini or bread sticks

Ingredients:

For the dough:

* 250 gr bread flour
* 100 gr whole wheat
* 10 gr dry yeast
* 1 cube (4grams) demerera sugar
* 1 teaspoon baking powder
* 1 cup warm water
* 1 teaspoon salt substitute
* 3 tablespoons olive oil
* 100 grams white sesame… Continue

Preparation time: 10 minutes

Cooking time: 15 minutes

Serves: 5

Ingredients

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Mint Pesto with Almonds and Graviera – Recipe by Ivy

Preparation time: 10 minutes

Serves: 3

Ingredients:

* 2 Cups Mint (only the leaves)
* 2 Cloves Garlic
* 1/3 Cup Olive Oil
* ½ Cup Almonds
* ½ Cup Graviera or halloumi
* Salt and freshly ground black pepper
* 1 Tbsp Wine vinegar

Directions:

1. Put th… Continue

Sponge Cake is one of my favourite kind of cakes. Some times I make it plain and some times I add dark cocoa in it and you can make so many different things with it. I make Birthday Cakes with different fillings and decorat… Continue

Preparation time: 30 minutes

Cooking time: 1 hour 30 minutes

Serves: 4

Ingredients:

½ Rooster (I used half which was 1.300 grams)

10 Small Potatoes or 3 big ones, cut into big pieces (optional)

4 Medium Red onions, cut into four pieces (or 12 whole smaller ones)

3 Medium White onions, cut into four… Continue

Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: About 35 minutes
Makes: About 15 patties
• 5 large tomatoes, peeled and cubed
• 250 Grams Crumbled feta
• 1 – 2 Tbsp Fresh mint, finely chopped
• 4 Sundried tomatoes, finely chopped
• 1 Tbsp Greek Oregano
• 1 Tsp Sweet paprika
• 1 Leek, only the white part, fi… Continue

I made this dessert last week when my SIL stayed with us for a few days before leaving for Australia and they couldn’t believe that this was made with “healthy” ingredients. Instead of using butter or m

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Hey everyone hurry and place your entry for the Best Cake Recipe Contest. Time is running out. Win a Barefoot Contessa
Cookbook. Thanks and have a great day!

I think a Greek blog would be incomplete without introducing some of the Greek cheeses. I have written about some of these cheeses in the past but I thought that it would be a good idea to put them all in one post with some recipes. In the f… Continue

Fish cutlet, is one of a kind delicacy of Bengali cuisine with Fish. Fresh fish, first boiled and mashed with potato and then spiced up with little spice and onion-ginger-garlic and then deep-fried coated with breadcrumbs. It is so scrumptious that no one can resist this at anytime. It is served with cucumber-onion-tomato slices and by they side a dollop of kasundi(bengali mustard relish). At Kolkata, you don't need to make it at home, as we get them freshly made in front of you at nearby snack… Continue

SAY CHEEEEEEEEEEESE TO THE HEALTH OF IT!!
Cheese's high nutritional value and its beneficial roles in health make this food an important dairy food to include in a healthful diet. Cheese contains a high concentration of essential nutrients, in particular high quality protein and calcium, as well as other nutrients such as phosphorus, zinc, vitamin A, riboflavin, and vitamin B12.
In addition to its nutritional contribution to the diet, cheese has several health attributes. Certain cheeses… Continue

Here's an easy recipe for trail mix bars that utilize overripe bananas that always seem to be lying around. Add some protein powder for trail mix protein bars or experiment with other ingredients. Originally adapted from Dr Gabe Mirkin.

Trail Mix Bars:
3 cups rolled oats or quick-cooking oats
2 cups of a trail mix or your own combination such ingredients
2 cups mashed ripe bananas or any other type of fruit puree
3 tablespoons honey or corn syrup
2 tablespoons whey or soy protein powder (option… Continue

Ingredients:
2 cups fresh Green Peas(matar)(or you can use dried green peas by soaking it overnight).
1 cup Paneer (cottage cheese) cubes
1 Large Onion (grated)
1 tbsp. Ginger garlic paste
2 Slitted green chili
2 tbsp tomato puree/tomato sauce.
2 cinnamon sticks
2 to 3 cardam… Continue

On Friday before EU elections, my husband, me, and 2 friends with their kid, drove to Foinikounta a small coastal village located on south –west Peloponnesos (Messinia Prefecture), for a four days camping. Despite the dinstance ~ about 4 hours journey, on Sunday morning we returned to Athens to vote and then travelled back.
The age –old name Peloponnesos means the island of Pelops, and Pelops is the legendary hero of Phrygian or Lydian origin who became the founder of the Pelopid dynasty at Myce… Continue

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BROCCOLI GRATIN
Simply in Season
by Mary Beth Lind, Cathleen Hockman-Wert

Serves 4-6

5-6 cups / 1.25-1.5 L (cut in chunks)
Steam broccoli just until crisp-tender, 6-8 minutes. Drain well and set aside.

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Ingredients

For the crumble:

• 35g rolled oats

• 35g wholemeal flour

• 20g sugar

• 35g margarine or butter
For the filling:

• 400 g cooking apples, peeled, cored and quartered

• 70 g sugar, to sweeten

• 1 tablespoon water

• 2 T craisins

• 1 tsp cinammon

Instructions… Continue