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Little Cooking Tips is now on Yummly as well!
Yep! We are really excited to tell you that you can now find us on Yummly as well!
Yummly is a huge repository of delicious recipes with an easy interface that allows you to bookmark the recipes you like in your own Recipe Box. All you have to do is sign up up with your Facebook or Google account and you're good to go. You will really appreciate the millions of recipes existing on the site. Read more...
4 Basic Things You Need To Know About Measures!
Every cook (professional or amateur) knows the importance of using the right measurements when counting and weighing the ingredients.
In this article we‘ll try to give you some essential information regarding spoon measures, oven temperatures, cups & milliliters, pounds, ounces and kilograms (we also used as a source the famous Larousse Gastronomique). Read more...
Traditional Greek recipes for Lent
Sarakosti (or "The Great Lent") is a huge tradition here in Greece. It's a period of (Christian) fasting, in which people are asked to abstain from all meat & animal products(eggs, dairy) except seafood (however fish isn't allowed). This is actually a traditional Greek version of a vegetarian diet, that's also followed before Christmas, before the Dormition of the Mother of God in August and every Wednesday & Friday. Read more...
A premium veal full of Omega 3 acids
In our last visit to our favorite butcher shop ("Alektor"), we went for some premium veal cuts, to cook them with wine and herbs in a classic pot roasting recipe.
The owner, suggested a relatively new product, the Aroma 3 veal. He told us that this meat is more tender and tastier.
The price was quite affordable, so we took about 2 pounds to try it. He also, gave as a brochure with some basic information for the farm producing the meat, and its quality characteristics. Read more...
This week Kate Astolat from "The Lab on the Roof" (http://rooflab.blogspot.com) shared the Liebster award with us. Kate has many beautiful ideas for your kitchen or your garden, for decorating your place and many many more! It's definitely a great blog and we honestly think you will find something interesting visiting it!
The Liebster award, for those who never heard anything about this, is an award which is given by bloggers to bloggers. The purpose is to honor the awarded blogs and to help build some awareness for them. Read more...
Miami Culinary Tours Tickets Giveaway!
Miami Culinary Tours offers 2-3 hour food tasting and cultural walking tours to off-the-beaten-path eateries. Their guided food tours in Miami are a non-touristy, and offer a local experience so you feel like a native at the end of the tour. Stroll with Miami Culinary Tours and stop at seven locations along the way and learn about the cultural aspects of each of the dishes you will be tasting. Read more...
Top 5 traditional Greek Fall-Winter appetizers
The appetizers play an essential role in any 'fancy' Greek meal. When Greeks go to a restaurant or a tavern, or when they have a party or family gathering, they always serve first some small portions of food called 'orektika' (appetizers), or 'mezedes' (plural of 'meze').
'Meze' is a small plate of food which you can consume when you 're having company, usually along with some drink, like wine, ouzo, beer, tsipouro, tsikoudia etc.
It's not unusual to see many small plates shared in the middle of the table in a Greek meal. These small portions of food are there to prepare you for the main dish that will follow, and to keep you 'occupied' until it is served.
What is Comfort Food? Which Greek dishes are considered comfort foods?
The term “Comfort Food” is one of those that are appearing more and more, in articles regarding cooking and gastronomy. However, there are still many people who don’t know what exactly does this term mean; even if they have some idea of what it means, people are often facing some difficulty to judge whether a food is a comfort food or not.
So, what is comfort food; Read more...
The unique graviera cheese of Pittaras
There are many different varieties of Graviera, depending on the region of Greece where it’s produced. Each region has its own type, with unique characteristics.
Some are saltier, some are spicier, and some are made primarily with sheep/goat's milk while others contain mostly milk from cows. Read more...
Journalists, chefs, food bloggers along with Greek farmers/producers with amazing new products, were all present. Three days full of presentations, live cooking sessions and interesting discussions on the present and future of Greek Gastronomy. Read more...
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