festive recipes

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…

I have expressed to you my weakness for soups many times . I enjoy them winter and summer, either hot or cold. Today’s mushroom soup is one of these…

It’s now a tradition to post a birthday cake each year, on my birthday 🙂 This year I was a day late, but it yesterday it was Sunday and…

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…

This is a recipe I wanted to show you for many years. Christmas traditions, are so interesting and they give you so much warmth. After all, it is very…

This winter the 80’s all over Athens! On one hand, there’s the very interesting GR80’s exhibition  at Technopolis, with a parallel program on the Onassis Cultural Centre, and on…

Today’s recipe is a really festive one; it is a Christmas chocolate tree with almonds and dried figs, to decorate your home and/or your holiday table. And at the…

There is nothing better, for me, than an evening of good food and good friends; a night where flavors and fragrances will be confused with stories, jokes and laughs.…

This post is not exactly a recipe. It’s an idea for an easy and quick appetizer; turnip sandwiches stuffed with horseradish sauce and cream cheese, garnished with peppers of…

Disclaimer no.1: This buckwheat chocolate and chestnut tart is NOT healthy. It is, however, one of these desserts that with the first bite excite you the most. One of…

Today’s post is not about a recipe; actually it is about a lot of recipes. I though of gathering all the recipes you might want to prepare for your…

It’s been some time since I am experiencing a dessert addiction period! I always liked desserts, mostly preparing them than eating them. The greatest pleasure for me is the…

And it’s time for the dessert of the festive menu series; white chocolate and pistachio parfait with berry sauce. A very impressive, very tasty and very easy to prepare…

And it’s time for the main course of the festive menu, which is nothing more than a delicious salmon with potatoes, roasted garlic and tarragon sauce; a truly delicious…

As I said in my previous post, I begin a series of recipes that you could create for your festive table, to timely plan the Christmas table. The whole…