Selected recipes for cooking what you produce in your garden. Simple recipes that we all can follow.
Greek salad is the iconic salad of Greece. The dish that most tourists / visitors prefer to order, during their stay in Greece. Here you will learn what is the genuine Greek salad, how you can make it yourself, and how much should you pay for it while staying in Greece. The origins of Greek …
Greek salad – Papares – Cost, ingredients, how to make Read More »
There are many things that have impressed me about this plant. I don’t know about you, but I didn’t like okra as food. Maybe because every okra I’ve tasted has been store-bought, frozen, of almost unknown origin and age. Things changed when I grew okra in the garden for the first time and used it …
Growing Okra – Recipe for Okras – Okra’s Flower! Read More »
In this article I record my personal experiences of consuming food that had expired (i.e. beyond the stated expiry date).The consumption was either while fresh or after cooking. 10% of the 88 million tonnes of food waste in the European Union ends up in the trash due to misinterpretation of the expiry date The European …
There is a clever solution to easily peel quinces and I will present it to you here, along with an easy recipe to make homemade sweet quince with arboriza in no time. Quinces – A Misunderstood Fruit Quinces are in modern times a rather misunderstood fruit. This is because it is usually not eaten raw …
Quinces – Easy Cleaning and Recipe for Sweet Quince Read More »
It’s simple to bake homemade bread. In this article, I’ll show you and alternative technique I use to give the dough the shape of a loaf of bread. I replace metal bread forms with a paper mold to shape the bread loaf. The only ingredients we need to make homemade bread are: It’s so simple! I’ve …
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My recipe for Greek sourdough home-made bread. I have been following this recipe for many years and the bread is always delicious. Ingredients Flour from Thessaly, water, sourdough, salt. Recipe I dilute the sourdough with cold water. About 3 glasses of water. (My cousin sent me the sourdough from Komotini, Greece. I have been keeping …
If there is one time of the year when the house should have beautiful and sweet smells, it is Christmas! I followed Stelios Parliaros’ recipe for melomakarona to make melomakarona and make the house smell like Christmas! What are Greek Melomakarona? I copy from Wikipedia’s Melomakarono. “The melomakarono (Greek: μελομακάρονο plural: μελομακάρονα, melomakarona) is an …
Let’s talk about sweeteners such as sugar, stevia, aspartame and many others that you may not know about. Are all sweeteners detrimental to our health and what are the alternatives? White sugar has been blamed for a multitude of negative effects on our health. Overconsumption of white sugar (direct and indirect) is responsible for an …
Sweeteners, Sugar, Stevia, Aspartame. Glycemic Index Read More »
Just because it’s sold as honey, doesn’t mean it’s honey! A survey conducted in the US by Food Safety News (FSN) revealed that 75% of products sold in the US as honey in grocery stores, supermarkets, restaurants, fast food, pharmacies, are simply not honey. The criterion in the survey was the presence or absence of …
Today I will tell you how I make tasty edible homemade olives. At the back of the property, there is a relatively small olive tree. It grows practically by itself without any care. Her olives ripened earlier than the others. This year (I know I’m unforgiving), I looked up and noticed them. Big, fleshy, luscious, …
I have gathered 7 Greek recipes to make homemade olives. Greece, among other great things, is well known for the quality of its olive oil and edible olives. As you can guess there are so many Greek recipes for edible olives. Such as Kalamata’s olives, xidates, throumbes, tsakistes, pikantikes, xaraktes, stafidotes olives. Not many years …
A recipe for home made grape molasses (petimezi). Easily make petimezi (grape molasses) from your grape must. Petimezi can be stored for years in the refrigerator and can be used in many recipes as a sweetener and to add strong taste. Petimezi, or grape molasses, is the dark thick sweet liquid that results from boiling …
Recipe for homemade grape molasses (Petimezi or Grape Syrup) Read More »
You may want to know how to store carrots in the freezer if you have an overproduction in your garden. What better way to be able to preserve carrots and eat them whenever you want! This year I had quite a few carrots planted. As a result, the harvest yielded me several kilograms of carrots. …
Please note that the video of Gary Yourofsky’s speech is now age-restricted by YouTube. I do not know why. You’ll have to be older than 18 years old, and login with your account to YouTube to watch it. A speech by Gary Yourofsky on 07/08/2010 at GA Tech. of Georg. An excellent talk that debunks …
Gary Yourofsky: Is eating meat, eggs, cheese, milk, honey good or bad? Read More »
How do I make homemade rustic bread? A simple recipe to make your own homemade rustic bread. All you need is flour, yeast, water and salt. Today I will show you how to make your own homemade delicious rustic bread. It’s so simple, you’ll definitely give it a try. You will inevitably make the comparisons …
A tried and trusted recipe to bake rustic homemade bread Read More »
Check how I make pomegranate juice. For those of you who haven’t tried to make pomegranate juice, you honestly don’t know what you’re missing. It’s one of the most delicious, beneficial and visually beautiful juices there is. What you’ll need to make pomegranate juice Method of preparation 1. Cut the pomegranates in half. 2. Carefully …
