by Rena Cook | Feb 3, 2014 | Sweets
This chocolate vanilla marble cake is very tasty. It is not very sweet, can be eaten at any time of the day and accompanies beautifully a cup of coffee or tea. Ingredients3 ½ cups self raising flour1 cup butter or margarine1 ½...
by Rena Cook | Aug 19, 2013 | Sweets
Revani is a traditional, really light and refreshing cake with semolina, bathed in syrup. You need few ingredients, it is very easy to make and the result is outstanding. Ingredients2 cups semolina1 ½ cups self-raising flour1 cup...
by Rena Cook | Jul 29, 2013 | Cooking Tips, Tips
Have you run out of confectioners (powdered) sugar and the stores are closed? Don’t despair. You can make the amount you need if you place some granulated sugar in your blender and blend it for a couple of minutes. To prevent granulated sugar from hardening, keep it...
by Rena Cook | Jul 8, 2013 | Sweets
Bougatsa is very easy to make and of course very nice to eat. Ancient Greeks made a pie that could be called an ‘early bougatsa’. It was a kind of a pie with various fillings. The years and eons passed and the bougatsa pie became a very popular sweet in Istanbul and...
by Rena Cook | Mar 18, 2013 | Sweets
I consider myself lucky because my dad’s brother married a girl from a village in Crete outside Herakleion, named Hersonissos. Those days it was a beautiful, picturesque little fishing village. There was one ‘main road’ following the coastline and the houses were...
