Home grown tomatoes need special treatment

I’m ever so proud of my tomato harvest and a good thing needs to be turned into even better dish: roasted tomatoes sauce for pasta all’ amatriciana.
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Home grown tomatoes need special treatment
I’m ever so proud of my tomato harvest and a good thing needs to be turned into even better dish: roasted tomatoes sauce for pasta all’ amatriciana.
Continue readingThere are some ingredients that simply make you jump for joy when you see them on the market stall. Marsh samphire was the thing that did it for me last week. Below you can check out the recipe for samphire and prawns fusilli.. A dish of the sea and of the sand.
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Between us, I kind of miss seeing the busy streets of Athens empty. This picture is from Elena, who lives in the heart of Athens with her family. She shares her experience and her comfort food: orzo pasta with tomato and cinnamon.
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Dora from Pandoras Kitchen is sharing her lockdown experience from Chios island. And she is sharing her amazing beef cannelloni with cream of feta recipe.
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An interview from Ghent, Belgium with 3 of my most favourite people, Phoevos, Dina (my sis) & Pavlos. They made us beef lasagna!
Continue readingI promised on my last post to make a mini series of posts with your culinary experiences and the small things that keep us all going during these crazy times. I think I should go first with my comfort food: spaghetti bolognese or Makarónia me kimá.
Continue readingThe nicest collaborations sometimes come out of the blue. Being in London for the past few weeks, I have been catching up with good old friends and taking the opportunity to make new ones as well. I met Noemi, a London based photographer from Sicily, we immersed ourselves in the world of our common passion – food photography- and enjoyed a wonderful dish of linguini alle vongole. Greece met Italy, in London.
I am back in Athens! It’s been a wonderful break. So many strolls, so many people to see, so little time to do everything. Of course I had a good break from cooking, too. I returned to an empty fridge and I was greeted by a lonely beer, it was high time for quick and dirty recipes. Foggy London always brings back good memories. This is a tasty one that I often cooked after work: my pumpkin and sage pasta. Given the season, you can hardly resist.
Continue readingOut of all the Greek dishes, youvetsi is the one to bring up the most heart-warming memories of Sunday lunch. Family around the table chattering, glasses clinking and rich tomato sauce. Continue reading