Category: Cooking and Baking
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Sticky Toffee Cupcakes with Salted Caramel Icing
A few weeks back I was invited to a friend’s house for dinner. As I didn’t have time to bake a dessert a bought a sticky toffee pudding from the bakery. The pudding didn’t have any caramel sauce on top so I decided to at least make that. As I was browsing through sauce recipes…
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New York Style Cheesecake
Cheesecake is the dessert I used to make a lot when I was younger. Giotis was the first Greek brand to offer boxes containing semi-made ingredients and recipes for cakes and cheesecakes. A similar international brand is Betty Crocker. As a teenage girl it was exciting to bake something in just 15 minutes and succeed in it without any…
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Funky Chocolate Marcipan Volcanos ~ Αμυγδαλωτά με Καρύδα, Μαρμελάδα Πορτοκάλι και Σοκολάτα
One of the amazing benefits of loving baking and cooking is that when you crave a specific ingredient you can find so many alternatives ways of using it to create the perfect treat! Almonds, coconut flakes and chocolate are always in my cupboard. Last night I was craving for something small chocolatey and coconutey. I…
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Thessaloniki Bagels ~ Koulouri Thessalonikis
‘Gastronomos’ is a cooking and baking magazine produced by one of the biggest newspapers in Greece. It comes out once a month and it is being sold along with the newspaper on the Sunday issue. Last Sunday the October issue was out and to my excitement it featured recipes from Thessaloniki. Needless to say I was very excited…
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Scones with Love
I met a close friend of mine for lunch yesterday who is also a dedicated baker like me. While we were chatting I mentioned that one of the reasons why I love baking is that it reminds me that the natural world has its own perfect timing. We live in a world where ‘time is…
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Upside Down Pizzas ~ Ανάποδη Πίτσα
We all love pizza and we have eaten it for breakfast, lunch, dinner or a snack. So much variety in toppings and doughs we are spoiled with choice! Of course it originates in Italy and according to Wikipedia ‘On 9 December 2009, the European Union, upon Italian request, granted Traditional Specialty Guaranteed (TSG) safeguard to…
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Delicious Zucchini Burgers ~ Κολοκυθοκεφτέδες της Μανούλας Ναυσικάς!
Not a fan of zucchini? Well this is the perfect recipe for you! No I am not playing games as this recipe has been adored by people that really love, don’t really care about or hate zucchini! It’s my mum’s recipe and it has become one of her five star side dishes accompanying almost every…
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‘A Date with Cognac’ Dessert ~ Γλυκό του Κουταλιού Χουρμάς
Spoon sweets are maybe the most popular and traditional desserts in Greece. They are made by boiling fruit in syrup. The more traditional ones are made with cherries, figs, oranges and grapes. Nevertheless they can be made by most of the fruit even watermelons! As I was growing up to my surprise I was introduced…
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