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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…

I welcome you to my renewed blog, with this delicious and filling fig and pistachio smoothie. After 6 and a half years, my blog needed a good upgrade, and…

Here I am finally, after a long time, with a fasting vegan tahini cake with walnuts, raisins and chocolate I haven’t had the time to share a blog post since last November.…

Let’s talk about fasting … In the last few years I have heard more and more people fasting, especially during the Great Lent. Most do so because of religion…

I have begun to think that I should eventually become a baker. I have such a love for bread and pastries! I get so much joy every time I…

Today’s post is the last post for the Food Blog Awards 2015 contest, organized by VIMAGourmet magazine. In essence, it is the second challenge for the Best Design & Site Architecture…

In my previous post about the beneficial properties of figs I promised you a recipe that will help you enjoy their valuable properties throughout the year. And because I…

As many recipes I have made for granola bars are never enough. It’s either my love for cereals and nuts, or my weakness in such snacks, and I’ve always…

Most of you know my love for everything homemade; I have expressed it many times. Those who keep track of my posts you’ve seen my efforts for homemade candies, nougat,…

It has been a long time since  I first thought of making veggie chips. Previously I had tried a couple of times, but fried. But I wanted to find…

Here I am again!! The holidays were great as well as the internet and social networks detox, but it is time to return to reality … Though I would…

Koliva (an offering of boiled wheat that is blessed liturgically in connection with the Memorial Services in Church for the benefit of one’s departed, thereby offering unto God) is…

Magiritsa (Greek: μαγειρίτσα) is a Greek soup made from lamb offal, associated with the Easter (Pascha) tradition of the Greek Orthodox Church. Accordingly, Greek-Americans and Greek-Canadians sometimes call it…

Rice pudding, this delicacy of our childhood, the dessert that everybody loves to eat warm with plenty of ground cinnamon, is one of the most popular desserts in Southeast…

When chocolate, chestnuts and coconut make an amazing combination. This is the only way I can describe this dessert. Its flavors are perfectly balanced and light. I made the…

I have a particular fondness in cereal bars. In recent years I have made several recipes combining various materials. I found out that the choices we have and the…