
Comforting layered winter bake
Today it is official: winter has begun. I always know winter is coming when I start feeling an urge to knit cozy beanies or slip-overs,...

Roasted chickpeas with sweet pepper and Za'atar
I think every girl knows those days in which you feel everything you'd like to do requires too much effort. When it happens to me...

Melitzanes jachni, Greek eggplant stew
This is one of the recipes I have been preparing since I can remember, for it is written in the Culinaria Greece cookbook my mother...

Easy beetroot salad
I can never have too much beetroot. I like them raw, in a soup, roasted or in a cake... in every single way! Each time I use them in the...

Greek cauliflower stew
Last week my mother gave me this recipe she found on Olive tomato (https://www.olivetomato.com/greek-cauliflower-recipe/), which she was...

Ash-e-Anar, pomegranate soup
I had never tasted a Persian dish until I was in my late teens and my mother read Marsha Mehran's Pomegranate Soup (Dutch: Café Babylon),...

Spinach and mushroom pasties
If my boyfriend would have to choose one thing to eat every week, then it would be this addictive snack! Of course, if you would have to...

Sütlaç, it melts on your tongue
This recipe is from a Turkish cookbook I got from the local library and it was a great succes. I am not usually the biggest fan of...

Greek inspired chickpea soup
Sometimes you have to improvise a meal very quickly and in those cases it helps to have a full store cupboard. Last thursday it was such...












