This recipe is a result of a twitter survey on gnocchi recipes I did. The most tempting proposal I got form Fraufeli and she suggested the use of orange for the sauce. This recipe is the outcome. I tested the recipe with lots of guests and everybody loved it. The recipe for the Gnocchi dough [...]

This is a simple and delicious dish for lovers of fresh salmon. I love experimenting with different forms and shapes of pasta and this is the outcome of my recent trials. The large size pasta goes very well with the big chunks of fresh fish that slowly fall apart and free their aroma. I usually [...]

Merluza a la Gallega is a classic Spanish fish dish form Galicia, Spain. The fish used is hake or cod and besides that the recipe doesn’t require much. It is nice and light because the fish as well as the potatoes are cooked in a soup. I have added a spicy sauce of bell peppers [...]

I was looking for a fish or seafood starter when I came across the ravioli recipe at Robert’s lamiacucina blog. I simply used his recipe for the dough, but still wanted a different filling. I created a filling of Gameri (large prawns), smoked salmon and curd cheese. The ravioli filled with prawns and salmon are [...]

Having read the blog posts of my German colleague Steph from “Kleinen Kuriositätenladen” about Sushi I felt inspired to experimen with Sushi. Having visited Asia a lot I have a big passion for Asian food. Still I wanted to give the Sushi a touch of Mediterranean feeling. Therefore I used smoked and pickled local fish [...]

Yuvetsi could be considered a kind of stew. It comes with veal but as well with sea food. A main ingredient is small pasta like Kritharaki but any small size pasta will do. I have chosen to cook a Yuvetsi with Octopus. You can cook this dish with frozen Octopus when you don’t have a [...]

Around easter time my friend Eberhard and I had spoken about a cookbook with Greek recipes that was published in 1991. The author, an American journalist named Susie Jacobs, had lived in Greece, mostly in Hydra. From 1976 on, she collected throughout the years a great number of recipes but also created her own ones.Eberhard, [...]

The Taramosalata is, besides the Tsatziki, the most classical Greek Mezze. Interestingly enough you can find this dish as well in Turky a lot. This salad is mainly made out of fish roe from cod or carp, Onion and Olive Oil. Potatoes or bread are sometimes added to the dip. Taramosalata is eaten with bread [...]

I had some fish fond left over and as well a perfect piece of tuna from the market. Both needed to be used and so I thought of how to combine both. What came out could be something like a Pilafi. In the Pilafi you cook all ingredients of the dish together with the rice. [...]

My trip to the central fish market at Athina’s Street was successful and I returned with a nice and fresh piece of tuna fish and some great looking scampi. I like scampi on the grill but I as well love them in combination with pasta, preferably linguine. When combining scampi with pasta, the essential thing [...]