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Mediterranean cuisine

Spicy Farfala Pasta with Aubergines & Tomatoes

My mom’s flight was cancelled on Tuesday, due to heavy winds in NL, so she was booked on a flight back home yesterday.  She arrived safely and all is well, I was sad to see her go.  🙁  So, things will slowly  start to get back into the routine mode, […]

Appetizers, Mediterranean cuisine

Goat Cheese & Chive Dip

Hey there!!  The beginning of a new week and unfortunately my mom is leaving tomorrow.(What can you do that’s life)  So, yesterday we met up with my brother for lunch and had a lovely day, chatting, eating and it was just a fun day being outside.  It was late afternoon […]

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Lucky Greek New Years Eve Cake (Vasilopita)

  Hello everyone!!! This is my first post of the year and I am very happy to be back here again with all of you. 🙂 New Years was nice, quiet we didn’t do anything special…Stayed home and relaxed while waiting for the New Year. It was raining most of […]

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Melomakarona (Greek Christmas Cookies)

Hello everyone!!  I hope all is well and you are all getting ready for Christmas. 🙂  I was not able to post last week because I had to return to Greece for a few days to take care of things.  (I will respond to the lovely comments that were left […]

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Orzo Pasta with Tomato Sauce

Do you ever have one of those days where you just don’t want to cook?  Maybe you want to pick up that phone and order take out like let’s say Pizza, Chinese, Sushi, Indian?  I do…but I never actually do.  Back in the days when my mom worked,  there were […]

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Greek Mountain Tea (Sideritis Tea)

I love drinking Tea, I think even more than drinking Coffee, yep I do. The other day I mentioned that my hubby has come down with a cold, to make him feel better I gave him few cups of the Mountain Tea I had in my pantry.  Whenever I go […]

Breads, Mediterranean cuisine

Focaccia Bread with Herbs

Hello everyone and I hope that everyone had a great week!  My hubby has not been feeling well these past few days, he has come down with a cold. So, this kind of put the menu I had planned for today on hold, so that meant we are having soup, […]

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Black-Eyed Pea Soup with a hint of Orange Juice

What a morning, gusty winds, rain, ufff I was out doing some errands, and the wind just kept pushing me to the point that I could not stand up, and yet while I was fighting the wind I noticed that there were people cycling!!  If it was younger age group […]

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Potato & Leek Soup

Trying to figure out what to cook on a daily basis for some can actually challenging, frustrating call it what you will and I do completely understand, so maybe this little tip just might help out.  During each season we eat  food that best describes the season like for instance […]