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No Fear Blogging

One of the bonuses of food blogging is you sometimes get to meet your fellow bloggers. An even rarer occurance is when you meet one from your same town/city and you greet each other as though we were old friends getting together to play “catch up” and spend the day together. Such was the case […]

Chicken in 360 Degrees

One of my favourite ways to prepare chicken is in my grill, summer time, beer can chicken style. Last year, one of the earlier posts I made was for a more classic version of this American gift to BBQ. This year, I kick it up a notch, shake up the ingredients and use the same, […]

Paximadia With Anise

Paximadia have been enjoyed prior to any memory I have of when biscotti started appearing in cafes and coffee houses. Greeks will often enjoy a Paximadi as part of a breakfast or as a side with a Greek coffee. Since the autumn of last year, I’ve been enjoying my Greek coffee each morning and some […]

Mango and Berry Crisp

I must admit, when I heard of the ingredients to be used for the next Royal Foodie Joust, I was stumped with what to make. Dessert making is not my strong-suit and I have little cooking experience with cardamom. We have a challenge. To compound my challenge, I noticed some other entries already used up […]

Zen and The Art of Steak

Slowly but surely the weather is improving day by day. The winter coats are gone and I went out last night wearing just a leather jacket. However, before I went out I did fire up my grill. On order…steak! Look at the sizzle I captured in the photo! Awesome. That’s how good the steak was […]

Semolina Halva (Χαλβας-σιμιγδαλι)

This dessert has to be one of my favourites of Greek cuisine. It’s one of my faves because it’s not “over the top” sweet, as many Greek desserts can be. Semolina Halva is also made in countries that surround the Mediterranean basin, the Balkans and as far east as India. There are many Greek recipes […]

Apple Crisp

Some of the dishes I’ve shown you are from my mom’s collection. You might think, “great…Peter shows us deeply secretive family recipes” but it’s hard interpreting recipes from an immigrant Greek mother. Picture this…young Greek woman at the age of 19, emigrates to Canada to marry a man she’s never met before in a country […]