Childhood memories of my grandmother Elisabeth came up when I prepared this dish today. When ever I visited her there was rice pudding. It had a garnish of sugar and cinnamon on top and a tiny piece of butter was melting in the middle of the hot pudding on my plate. Also Greek childen have [...]

I was stunned when I discovered these magnifficant strawberries in the vegetable store, where I usually shop. I was a bit suspicious but the lady that owns the shop assured me that these were Greek strawberries. They must originate from a Cretan glas house I thougt and tried one. They were sweet and juicy which [...]

I had eaten this soup many years ago at my fathers house. Now that I wanted to cook it I could not recall much but a few details of the preparation. This was for certain: Lots of parsley was involved in order to achieve this intense and unique flavour. Some cream, some butter and beef [...]

Discovered at Robert’s lamiacucina Blog I had to try a version of these Ricottine instantly. I am always on the look out for quite different dishes for my Secret Supper event here in Athens. I liked the colour scheme and later on as well the taste of these Ricottine a lot.

This is one of my favourite risotto recipes. One has to find small squid thoug. It is much more tender and soft than the larger ones and its taste is divine. Another thing you really need is fish stock. You may use ready made one from your fish dealer or even powdered stock. The best [...]

Looking through my RSS reader I discovered a Zucchini and Cheese soup at Joumanas blog. I had to modify the choice of cheese but the rest of the ingredients I had at home. A delicious soup for those who love a sip of a strong soup.

Again the weather called for soup. I had some carrots left and decided to use them up. I started looking out for soups at my colleagues blogs and found a delicious looking soup recipe at lamiacucina. While the soup was boiling I read the comments posted on this recipe, one of them by Kochschlame . [...]

I had some celery root left over from my soup cooking experience a few days ago, so I decided to fully focus on the cellery. I figured that apple is great to be combined with celery root, and so it was. What a simple and delicious soup that can be done in just a few [...]

The cold weather here in Athens calls for a hot soup. Currently I am  experimenting a lot with all sorts of vegetable soups. This time I wanted a soup that could as well be a whole meal, so I added beans and chickpeas which can be both pretty filling. Celery root and carrot fit the [...]

I love lentils in anz form but this recipe is my favourite. Probably because my mother used to cook them this way, as a stew. Lentil stew is a hearty dish with few ingredients. Growing up in Tyrol, speck was added to the dish. An ingredient the region is famous for. Often some slab was [...]