Ladenia is simple focaccia-like bread with tomatoes, onions and herbs pressed into the cushion-like dough, perfect when it is hot from the oven with gleaming olive oil and crunchy grains of sea salt. Almost like…
Ratatouille
Ladenia
Kalamarakia tiganita
The quintessential Greek holiday dish, fried kalamari in all of its golden brown, hot, crispy glory is a summer holiday delight. And yet it is dangerously easy to make at home pretty much anytime of…
Gigantes me seskoula
Beans and tomatoes are the of best friends; made just a tiny bit better with some homegrown dark, dark green fleshy chard (seskoula) leaves. Seskoula grows so easily and is a much revered vegetable in…
Bakaliaros kokkinistos
A lovely fish stew from the beautiful island of Zakynthos. My mother in law Sofia’s delicious late autumn dish of salt cod married with super ripe end of season tomatoes. A simple but warming dish,…
Cinnamon Koulourakia
The best kind of Greek breakfast! Nothing beats a wonderfully aromatic Greek coffee and homemade cinnamon koulourakia. The biscuits will make your kitchen smell amazing, the heady hints of cinnamon particularly welcome on a chilly…
Kolokitho – keftedes
The perfect early autumn evening meze: pumpkin fritters with a simple garlic-yoghurt sauce. Sweet pumpkin and leek marries with a little salty feta, aromatic dill and mint in a crispy bite with a pillowy centre….
Rizogalo
From the start of early spring mum’s garden has been abundantly fragrant with tiny white citrus blossoms. The clementine (or mandarin) blossoms, in what seemed like their hundreds were the most fragrant of all the…
Melomakrona (Μελομακάρονα)
Cookies and milk are a common offering for Santa on Christmas Eve. At our house Santa often forges the customary milk for a small glass of radiant, amber coloured Mextaxa 12 Brandy with aromas of…
