Monday, 12 August 2013 / Published in Salads, Vegetarian

Green salad with radishes

A crisp, mixed green salad, can accompany almost any dish. It is cool, full of vitamins and has few calories if you go easy on the dressing. I dressed this salad with a little vinegar and virgin olive oil, because I don’t want to cover the taste of the lettuce and the rocket.    
Monday, 17 June 2013 / Published in Salads

Potato salad with tuna fish and anchovy fillets

This potato salad with lettuce, radishes, spring onions, tuna fish and anchovy fillets is tasty enough and filling enough to be eaten for lunch with a couple of slices of brown bread. The quantities are approximate for 2 – 3 persons and you may add more of one ingredient that you like and omit altogether
Monday, 10 June 2013 / Published in Salads

Traditional lettuce salad

This is a salad that older generations grew up with and has remained indelible in our minds. It dates back from the time when tomatoes and cucumbers were only available in summer. Winter was the time of the cabbage and in spring people enjoyed the lettuce with spring onions and fresh dill. There was only
Monday, 13 May 2013 / Published in Salads

Mixed Green Salad with yogurt-cheese dressing

This is a beautiful salad that can accompany just about any main dish. The dressing not only adds that special tang and flavor but can also be used as a dip.           Ingredients for salad 2 small cucumbers sliced 3 radishes sliced 6 – 7 cherry tomatoes cut in half 3
Monday, 19 November 2012 / Published in Salads, Vegetarian

Mixed Salad

It is a fantastic salad that can accompany any dish or can be eaten with some toast and a little cheese perhaps for lunch or a light dinner. You can use any salad greens you like and you can find at your greengrocer’s, as well as boiled vegetables and pulses. The quantities are approximate, and
Monday, 16 April 2012 / Published in Meat, Soups

Greek Easter Soup (Mageiritsa)

Easter is the most important religious holiday in Greece and is celebrated with reverence throughout the country.  The people used to fast for forty days before Easter but nowadays they usually fast during the holy week, and especially on holly Friday when Jesus died on the cross. On that day people exclude even olive oil