In Greece there are three different types of yogurt, depending on the milk (goat, sheep or cow) used to make it.       Yogurt ...

          Searching the Internet for some info on edible flowers, I saw some beautiful pictures of cakes and other fancy desserts decor...

I often wonder what could be characterized as a typical Greek flavor in pastry; and I usually come to the conclusion that yogurt and ...

This post was especially written for Pretty Greek Villas , a site owned by my friends Marie- Louise and Ben. If you are thinking Greec...

      Have you ever wondered what ancient Greek cooking would taste like? If ancient Greeks could have known that people in the future ...

    An urge to search for traditional recipes with apples resulted because of a walk we took last week near our cottage. We came across...

      My grandfather planted a fig tree in the garden of our cottage that, despite its age, has never stopped producing fruits year af...

      Lemon flavored casserole stews, or lemonáta (λεμονάτα) as we call them in Greek, are very popular because of the refreshing and s...

      Visináda (βυσσινάδα) is one of the favorite beverages in Greece. It is made with the juice of sour cherries and sugar, cooked unt...

      Almond based confections or amygdalotá (αμυγδαλωτά) as we call them are found all over Greece in endless versions. They can be ...

      What might characterize our family meals in Greece is the variety of dishes served. Housewives rarely cook only one dish for the ...

Tsatziki may be an all time classic for Greeks but, when we had guests at home, my mother always thought it was too garlicky for every...

 These treats have always been our family’s way to celebrate the new walnut (Greek-καρύδια) crop. I remember my grandmother preparing ...

Vanilla cream is one of those archetypical and international recipes people have followed since they discovered that by combining mil...

          The French term fricassee refers to meat cooked by a method somewhere between a sauté and a stew and served with a white sau...

Everyone loves the wonderful taste of sun dried tomatoes. When you pick a small jar of them in the super market it is hard to imagine ...

In Aegean islands like Sifnos and Kalimnos chick pea stews are a favorite dish all year long. Housewives there place their chick peas ...

    Yogurt and honey has always  been a favorite combination for Greeks. Ancient Greeks used to make a thick milk product that was cal...

As a kid there were three sweets that I loved most, all of them made with sugar and water: cotton candy usually found on during festi...

  Vines are probably the only plants in Greece where every part of the plant except the roots are used in cooking.  In May fresh...