A pumpkin pie that’s as good as baklava: pumpkin baklava.
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Baklava ice-cream with syrupy fillo cones
The summer baklava
It’s been two years of Eat yourself Greek, two years of me being back in Athens.
Treats are in order. And a bit of a recap. Don’t worry it’s not going to be a story of my life post, there is baklava ice-cream with syrupy fillo cones in the end. Continue reading
Greek Christmas, food et al
I hope you are ready for the Christmas holidays. I definitely am and probably have my hands on some melomakarona or kourabiedes as you read! In this post I couldn’t resist sharing some Greek Christmas traditions with you to mark the occasion, along with some of our favourite and most traditional Christmas food.
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Smart ways to make your ingredients go a long way
Still on food blogging competition mode and all I think about is re-using. Last week I re-used my chickpea soup into chickpea burger, I had a few onions cooked into a sharp chutney and made my materials go a little further. This week, it is all about the pie and a bit of dessert, well, from leftovers fillo pastry. Making your ingredients go a long way, have something savoury and something sweet.
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Baklava is one of those delicacies whose origins are lost in time. Some trace it back to ancient Greek/Roman desserts with baked walnuts, almonds, poppy seeds, honey and dough from Athinaeus Deipnosofists; others draw a link to Byzantine pies, koptoplakous, as a baklava precursor; and some claim Assyrians to be the fathers of baklava (8th century BC).
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