Lenten

These roasted artichokes with garlic and lemon have stolen my heart lately 😀 With this recipe I have really enjoyed artichokes this year. It’s the first year I have…

Soft, juicy, highly aromatic kumquat upside down cake.  What more could you ask for from a cake? I had to do something with all those kumquats that my little…

It sounds unbelievable, I know. It is indeed the easiest dessert you can make in an instant, a healthy persimmon and cocoa pudding, with only 2 ingredients and no…

Happy and blessed new year to all!! I am sharing the first recipe of the New Year; a colorful light salad, with seasonal ingredients. Red cabbage salad with rice…

We are only a few days away from Christmas. There isn’t even one Greek house that has’n bake melomakarona, the delicious Greek Christmas honey cookies.  If you haven’t made…

The reason for creating these savory waffles with mixed mushrooms, were the very beautiful mushrooms I found in the organic market a few days ago. So I remembered a…

As I have expressed to you many times, I have a special love for persimmons. Every year, when their season starts, I promise myself that “this year I will…

Us Greeks we can’t think of Christmas without melomakarona and kourabiedes! Although we have been bombarded these past few days with festive recipes, some traditional some not, no home…

I have expressed my love for turmeric many times in the past. I have a particular weakness for it and I do not miss the opportunity to add it…

Happy New Year everyone! After a necessary break for me, I return with a new recipe, which comes to perfect timing with this cold weather here in Greece. I…

I don’t usually publish smoothie recipes. I think most of us now know how to make a delicious, filling and nutritious smoothie. But there are some combinations that I…

Homemade ice cream because… we are burning in Greece these days! The heat wave is phenomenal!  Actually it’s a vegan peach ice cream, flavored with lemon thyme; easy and…

It could also be called “the quickest dip”, this carrot & turmeric dip. In about 15 minutes you have a delicious and healthy appetizer. It resembles hummus due to…

It’s been a while since I wanted to show you these vegan mushroom hand pies with beluga lentils. Lately I have been making vegan pies again and again. I…

First (and delayed) post for the new year with a turmeric and cardamom bread. I think it could not have started better! After all, who can resist fragrant and…

Kumquat jam with honey, one of the most delicious jams I have ever eaten. And, honestly,  I love red jams (berries and such) and I do not pay much…

Every year on October 25, World Pasta Day is celebrated. I thought I should celebrate with a new, delicious recipe with pumpkin, sage & kefir pasta. A recipe that,…

One of the most emblematic and favorite dishes of the Cretan diet is fennel pies. Today I have for you a variation of them, whole meal oven-baked  fennel greens…