Category: Cooking and Baking
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Salmon Pancake Brunch ~ Fluffy Pancake Recipe and Thinner Pancake Recipe
The beauty about pancakes is that they can be eaten with any type of savoury or sweet topping one pleases! From syrup, sugar and lemon, blueberries and whipped cream, strawberries or bananas and Nutella to bacon, salmon, cheese, mushrooms and tomatoes. When I was visiting some friends in Toronto they introduced me to Aunt Jemima…
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Perfect Cinnamon Rolls
This has somehow become my favourite bun to make and at the same time it has become a hit amongst my friends and family. I have tried a few recipes so far but once I tried this one it was so good I decided that I had no choice but to stick with it. Everyone…
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Tahini Cookies ~ Κουλουράκια με Ταχίνι
Tahini is one of my favourite condiments that I love eating on its own on a piece of bread as much as use it as an ingredient in recipes. I prefer it to nutella (which I find extremely sweet), jam and marmalade and I even use it as a topping for pancakes and crepes .The…
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Geometry of Baking or Trigona Panoramatos ~ Τρίγωνα Πανοράματος
One of the delicacies of my hometown, Thessaloniki, are these filo triangles filled with cream. You can mostly find them in Thessaloniki. Only some patisseries in the rest of Greece make them but they are not as good as the original ones. The difference is in the cream which has a very unique and smooth…
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Cheese Pie with Homemade Filo ~ Χωριάτικη Στριφτή Τυρόπιτα με Χειροποίητο Φύλο
The art of filo making is a tradition well kept by my grandmother’s generation. Unfortunately in recent years it has started to die out as it is considered a time consuming hassle by modern working Greek women. Since the popularity of pies hasn’t died in Greece the gap in the availability of good filo is…
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Kourou Cheese Pies ~ Τυροπιτάκια Κουρού
Lots of recipes lately not because I have been baking more but because I have more time for uploads! For me good home made food is a must so baking and cooking different recipes are part of my daily routine! I will share another cheese pie recipe that I found the other day and I…
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Vanilla and Chocolate Cream Eclairs
I love challenges and when my work and everything else is under control I indulge myself in getting challenged in baking. I was in between making eclairs or baked Alaskas since they are considered two of the most difficult desserts. I asked a few friends for what they would prefer and most of them went…
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Cheese and Cream Pies ~ Τιροπιτάκια και Μπουγατσίνια με Κρέμα
Nothing is better than a nice warm breakfast that does not just include your typical bread and cheese or a type of spread. Ideally I prefer to have fruit first thing in the morning but sometimes I like to treat myself with something more. (If my family reads the last sentence they will define something…
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