by Rena Cook | Mar 3, 2016 | Meat
For this dish you can use beef or even rabbit and baby onions in tomato sauce. With this tasty dish you can wave winter goodbye. It is simmered gently for 2 – 4 hours, until the meat is very tender and the onions are ever so soft and unbelievably sweet. Only the...
by Rena Cook | Dec 1, 2015 | Sweets
This is one of the traditional sweets that are made at Christmas. The semolina gives them a grainy texture that I find very appealing. Ingredients:1 cup vegetable (sunflower) oil (or a packet of margarine 250 gr.)2 ½ cups fine semolina½ cup flour¼ cup sugar¼ cup...
by Rena Cook | Nov 10, 2015 | Poultry, Vegetables
Such a tasty dish and so easy to make! You don’t really have to weigh and measure out the ingredients. It depends on how many people you have to feed, what vegetables they like eating, and you add and subtract accordingly. Cubed carrots and/or zucchini will be...
by Rena Cook | Jul 3, 2015 | Sweets
Galaktoboureko is a light and refreshing pie-like sweet with the delicious yellow cream sandwiched between layers of crispy phyllo dough. After it comes out of the oven, you pour syrup scented with lemon over it, and when it cools down you will have to restrain...
by Rena Cook | Jun 6, 2015 | Salads
The Greek Salad is famous around the world. However, it has been brutally abused and sometimes the final product has nothing in common with the fresh, crisp, full of goodness, original Greek Salad. I have heard that some restaurants serve sun dried tomatoes with...