This delicious – meat free – Moussakas is an other result of my excursion to the Greek Orthodox Monastery. Focusing on Greek fasting dishes the Abbot proposed to show me how to prepare this classic Greek dish with Arabic roots. What makes this dish so special is the use of tuna fish in the tomato [...]

I was glad to discover this dish in my Greek fasting book. I was sure that the monks who had gathered the recipes loved to eat well. And why would they not. Big shrimps or prawns in a juicy tomato sauce sound like a great fasting dish to me. The few ingredients used in this [...]

Baked beans and spinach is another fasting dish I want to present. This combination of beans and spinach surprised me with its taste and texture. The beans are melting, the spinache is jusicy. The onion and the garlic give a nice falvour to the vegetarian dish. In later posts I will also present some fish [...]

Seven weeks befor Easter Lent beginns in Christianity. So with also here in Greece. For those who take fasting verz serious certain rules apply according to the day of the week and the week you are in. Some of the days vegan food is in demand, on other days the consumtion of oil, wine and [...]

I do admit, that the photo has not much to do with the title. The bag is used for cooking only. I use a baking bag, to be precise. This high tech product allows a smooth and slow baking in the oven but also enables the things to get some colour at the same time. [...]

These little, soft cookies that are dipped into a Honey syrup you can only find around Christmas here in Greece. Melomakarona are made form late November on, they are the classic Greek Christmas cookie. You can find them in bakeries but also may of the small grocery stores around the neighbourhood sell these home made [...]

As Christmas is approaching I am doing more sweet dishes and try to find tastes that fit the season. Although you can find Loukoumades all year around in Greece the combination of honey and cinnamon over hot puffs is really a wintery dish for me. Loukoumades are a perfect desert in the cold time of [...]

I am late with posting this which is a traditional Greek summer dish. The quality of “Gemista” – stuffed tomatoes – is fully depending on the quality of the tomatoes used. They have to be ripe and juicy and soft. I was lucky and found some great deep red tomatoes from Crete at my greengrocers.
There [...]

I was looking for a different use for pumpkin as well as for Mozzarella. The good old soup and the good old Caprese seemed too boring. I came across a recipe for marinated pumpkin and so the combination with Mozzarella di Buffola was not too farfetched. The spicy pumpkin with its bite in addition to [...]

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 [...]