List of recipies

MAIN DISHES
Courgettes with lemon rice and minced meat. 
Cream of vegetable soup with sesame seeds, walnuts and wine-bread croutons.
Delicious pasta with tomatoes and capers, without cheese.
Filet mignon with hot spicy carrot puree and xinomavro wine sauce.
Greek Classic: Rice with spinach eggs and sumac.
Grilled filet mignon skewers and steamed leeks. Dittany of Crete beef and leeks: a love match! 
 Grilled vegetables with meat and spicy graviera cheese.
 Handres (speckled kidney beans) with feta - sunflower seeds cream .
Ioannina, # aegeanairlines, #vgfoodblogawards, #vimagourmetfoodblogawards. Baked meats in the pot. No fyllo cheese pie. Small sweet pies with custard cream.
Homemade gyros with pork and chicken.
Lentil salad.Meatballs with oats, light potato puree and wine sauce.
Moussakas with chicken.
Pasta baked with xinohondro (Cretan bulgur), vegetables and cheese. Cooking in Crete.
Omelet with vegetables and fresh sea fennel.
Pasta with xinomavro wine sauce.

 Pumpkin slices stuffed with beef and vegetables.
Quinoa with vegetables, star anise and grilled beef burgers.
Red pasta with katiki cream cheese and sage. 
Red peppers stuffed with mushrooms from my Thessaloniki open food market and Amanitus Caesar mushrooms of the Meteora Museum shop.
Revithokeftedes. Falafel with homemade Arabic pie and lemon tahini sauce.
Rice with cabbage, minced meat, graviera cheese and magical fennel seeds.
Rice with purslane, courgette and ginger.
Santorini’s fava with mushroom sauce and smoked Greek cheese. 
Sitia, baked xinohondros with vegetable sauce, sarikopites pies with xinomizithra cheese, raisin sweets. 
Slow cooked pork feet with honey and red puree with smashed beetroot and potato.
Sophia Loren’s meatballs, an international recipe. Cooking in international Berlin. 
Slow cooked pork with leeks and celery cream. Lunch with girlfriends. 
Spicy beef roles and Santorini’s favα. Stuffed tomatoes. A recipe inspired from the series: In the belly of the city.
Stuffed courgettes with minced meat and cooked with mountain tea. 
Thessaloniki special edition, #aegeanairlines, #vgfoodblogawards, #vimagourmetfoodblogawards, Baked pork leeks and celery leaves within bread. Pink crepes-cake with hot cheese salad. Koulouria (round breads with sesame seeds) stuffed with feta cheese. Chocolate and hazelnuts cream.
Award in cooking competition. Cook traditionally: Cuttlefish with pearl onions, rosehip sauce and little baked rice-pies.Baked garfish and potatoes with a red pepper’s sauce.
Baked okras with little shrimps.
Baked Parrotfish with vegetables and myronia greens
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Baked red mullet with small courgettes. I love fish in Crete!
Baked sargos fish with vegetables and Cretan citrus. Cooking in Ierapetra
Baked stuffed sardines with vegetables and lemon potato salad with capers.
Baked Topani fish with grapes, potatoes, onions and fresh oregano.
Baked tuna and aromatic onions.

Fasoulotavas (baked beans) from Veria and salad with celery and linseeds. Flying fish lemon soup, fish balls and white rice sauce.
Fish and potatoes with an aromatic green mayonnaise.
Fish with dill, chaviar and pink potato salad. Gastronomic destination Thessaloniki!
Fish with fennel, coconut milk, lime and fennel.
Galeos fish (Galeorhinus galeus) with hummus beans.
Greek summer lunch.Grilled mousmoulia fish (Axillary Seabream), rice, lemon and olive paste. 
Grilled swordfish burgers flavored with lemon balm and red cabbage salad.
Kalamata: #aegeanairlines, #vgfoodblogawards, #vimagourmetfoodblogawards, Galeos fish (Galeorhinus galeus) with sweet tsiladia sauce. Bread with olives, Chocolate and fig treats
Kalymnos, # aegeanairlines, #vgfoodblogawards, #vimagourmetfoodblogawards, Octopus croquettes. Mirmizeli salad with tomatoes and vegetables. Little barley rusks with fruits preserved in syrup.
Lemon ray fish with red quinoa and vegetables salad.Cooking in Ierapetra, Crete.
Leros: #aegeanairlines, #vgfoodblogawards, #vimagourmetfoodblogawards. Little shrimp’s rice nest. Cream cheese (anthotyro) balls with aromatic sauce. Festive almonds pouches.
Little tuna fish in the pan! I love fish
.
Marinated anchovies.Myxinaria (Golden Grey mullet) of the Greek seas. 
Οctopus and tomato sauce, a recipe from Kallikrateia Chalkidiki.  
Octopus salad with sweet potato sticks. Cooking in festive Bremen.
Octopus with rosehip sauce and Santorini’s fava.
 
Pasta with squid, sun dried tomato sauce and Greek Red saffron.
Pike fish with grilled vegetables and a citrus- Szechuan Pepper-ginger and fresh oregano sauce.
Rice with calamari and sauce with onions, green olives, nuts and mastiha. 
Sardines with Kritama (Sea Fennel) and tomatoes. I love fish in Kallikrateia. 
Sea bass barbeque with purslane and aromatic lemon and extra virgin olive oil sauce.
Sea bass fillet grilled with red pepper-little shrimps and mastiha sauce.
 
Squid burgers, roasted potatoes and mustard-honey sauce. 

Spicy monkfish cream soup.Spinach with cuttlefish and fresh sage. 
Steamed milokopi fish (Bearded Umbrine) rolls with mountain tea and vegetables.
Stuffed glory Striped Jack fish.
Summer pasta with capers.
Swordfish with barbequed aubergines and roasted vegetables. 
The excellent wines of Santorini and the food. Grilled mousmoulia fish with lemon and extra virgin olive oil.Thessaloniki’s rice with mussels. Greek Classic.
Tuna stew and potatoes with sage and rose hips infusion.

TRADITIONAL LUNCH ON THE AIRPLANE

Fish with dill, chaviar and pink potato salad. Gastronomic destination Thessaloniki!
Ioannina, # aegeanairlines, #vgfoodblogawards, #vimagourmetfoodblogawards. Baked meats in the pot. No fyllo cheese pie. Small sweet pies with custard cream.
APETIZERS

Bean houmous star-shaped breads. From a traditional recipe of Naoussa.
 
Cake with trout and red pepper.
Caper leaves with cherry tomatoes, fresh goat cheese and rusks.
Carrot and potato croquettes with sweet and sour tomato sauce.
Cheese wrapped in vine leaves.Courgette flowers, stuffed with feta: Greek summer appetizer for tsipouro and beer.
Delicious cheese bites with seeds and honey sauce.
Festive little cheese breads with almonds.For the New Year’s Eve: Blinis with cream cheese and smoked salmon and coctail with Greek dry white sparkling wine and pomegranate juice.
Gkavopsara, aubergines with spices
.
Grilled burgers with beetroot, pumpkin and pine nuts. 
Hummus with three tastes. Cooking in Bremen.
Kolokythodavas , courgettes in the oven. A recipe from Veria from my friend Niki.


Kritama (Sea Fennel) cream and cucumbers.Little aromatic nests with crocus sativus.
Little cod muffins with a garlic crust.
Little smoked garlic bites
.Little tuna fish in the pan! I love fish.
Making the tsipouro and the Russian salad (Olivier salad).
Mantzakia, traditional vegetarian appetizer.
Petoura (traditional pasta) with pork-sausage and dried tomatoes sauce.
Pink tequila and roasted pumpkin bites.

Pink vodka with cornus mas syrup and cheesebites. A memory from my childhood.
Meatballs with pink sauce and pumpkin flavored bites. from the traditional recipe of Naoussa: Meatballs in brine.
Omelet with vegetables and fresh sea fennel.
Quinoa with grilled mushrooms marinated in Ditany of Crete
.
Roasted potatoes millefeuille.Salad with cappers from Sifnos.
Sweet and sour courgette sticks with sea fennel, capers and lemon balm. 
Thessaloniki special edition, #aegeanairlines, #vgfoodblogawards, #vimagourmetfoodblogawards, Baked pork leeks and celery leaves within bread. Pink crepes-cake with hot cheese salad. Koulouria (round breads with sesame seeds) stuffed with feta cheese. Chocolate and hazelnuts cream.
Vegetable tarts, children and the cumin spice.

TRADITIONAL APETIZERS

Bean houmous star-shaped breads. From a traditional recipe of Naoussa.


Gkaikanas: Little omelets from a traditional recipe.
Gkavopsara, aubergines with spices
. 
Leros: #aegeanairlines, #vgfoodblogawards, #vimagourmetfoodblogawards. Little shrimp’s rice nest. Cream cheese (anthotyro) balls with aromatic sauce. Festive almonds pouches. 
Little cornbreads with feta, carrot and Dittany of Crete.
Mantzakia, traditional vegetarian appetizer.

Meatballs with pink sauce and pumpkin flavored bites. from the traditional recipe of Naoussa: Meatballs in brine. 
Petoura (traditional pasta) with pork-sausage and dried tomatoes sauce.
Salad with cappers from Sifnos.
Traditional kokoretsi barbeque.
                                     
SALAD

Almyra (agretti) stew with sweet and sour tomato sauce.
Avokado, cherry tomatoes and xygalo cream cheese. Cooking in Crete.
Blites salad with watermelon.Caper leaves with cherry tomatoes, fresh goat cheese and rusks.Cowpeas (ambelofasoula) with red peppers and sumac.Cowpeas salad with vegetables. Cooking in Crete. 
Green salad with pastrami - beef ham, and honey.
Kalymnos, # aegeanairlines, #vgfoodblogawards, #vimagourmetfoodblogawards, Octopus croquettes. Mirmizeli salad with tomatoes and vegetables. Little barley rusks with fruits preserved in syrup.

Katsouni (cucumber of Aegean Islands) salad with avokado and fresh corn.
Katsouni (cucumber of Aegean Islands) salad with white fish roe cream and green olives.
Lemon ray fish with red quinoa and vegetables salad.Cooking in Ierapetra, Crete.
Purslane, grapes, nuts and spicy onions. 
Vegetable-bread cake with feta cream.
Salad with asparagus, spinach, celery and olive-hazelnut paste. Fresh spring greens.Salads from the open foodmarkets of Germany. Cooking in Germany. Carrots and leeks, cabbage, romanesko.

GREEK PIE
Aubergine pie with homemade fyllo. 
Cheese pie with apaki. Baking in Ierapetra, Crete.
Ioannina, # aegeanairlines, #vgfoodblogawards, #vimagourmetfoodblogawards. Baked meats in the pot. No fyllo cheese pie. Small sweet pies with custard cream.
Pie with cheese and eggs.Pie with greens and olive oil.Pie with minced beef meat and leeks. Traditional pie.
Pie with sour cream cheese and fennel. Cooking in Ierapetra, Crete.

Pie with sweet manouri cheese and blites (vlita summer greens).
Pumpkin pie with fennel and homemade fyllo with olive oil.
 
Saturday’s meatpies with minced meat and potato. Cooking in Bremen.

Bread from Santorini with Greek red saffron.

Cake with chicken, Naxos cheese and sunflower seeds.Little aubergine pies with homemade kourou dough.
Little olive breads stuffed with kaseri cheese and linseeds. 
Sweet little Cretan breads with mastiha and malotyra tea. Cooking in Ierapetra, Crete.

SAVORY CAKES

Cake with trout and red pepper.Vegetable-bread cake with feta cream. 
Cake from crepes and chicken filling.                     
Cake with spicy cheese salad, barley rusk and aromatic cuttlefish.

25TH OF MARCH
    
 CARNAVAL



MONDAY ΑFTER PENTECOST

EASTER

NEW YEAR'S EVE

Cake with chestnuts: a Sweet New Year’s Eve.
Creamy squash soup
For the New Year’s Eve: Blinis with cream cheese and smoked salmon and coctail with Greek dry white sparkling wine and pomegranate juice.
Pumpkin slices stuffed with beef and vegetables.
Vasilopita 2015, New Year’s Day sweet bread.Vegetable-bread cake with feta cream.
         

The feast of St. Tryphon. 

3rd Trilofiotiko reunion.
                                                 
GREEK HERB TEAS and HOT DRINKS


Cookies with carob and hazelnuts for my hot velvet cocoa drink.


Forest fruits infusion. Lemon balm cake and its beverage. 
Thyme tea. Greek thyme for the cold German winter.
Propolis with fresh juice and Greek herb tea.

WINE 



A survival guide for a Wine Fair Visitors. 9 helpful practical advices.
Naoussa city of wine 2014.Diamantakou estate, vine leaves harvest season.
New Winery in Caldera Santorini: The Venetsanou Winery. 
The excellent wines of Santorini and the food. Grilled mousmoulia fish with lemon and extra virgin olive oil.
DRINKS
                                                      
Liqueur with mountain tea.

Pink tequila and roasted pumpkin bites.
Pink vodka with cornus mas syrup and cheesebites. A memory from my childhood
                                                      BREAD


Bread from Santorini with Greek red saffron.
 

Bread with whole wheat flour and aromatic herbs.
Festive little cheese breads with almonds.
Flat bread with cherry tomatoes, sunflower seeds and oregano
.
For the New Year’s Eve: Blinis with cream cheese and smoked salmon and coctail with Greek dry white sparkling wine and pomegranate juice. 
Little cornbreads with feta, carrot and Dittany of Crete.
Little olive breads stuffed with kaseri cheese and linseeds.
 
Sweet little Cretan breads with mastiha and malotyra tea. Cooking in Ierapetra, Crete.
Thessaloniki special edition, #aegeanairlines, #vgfoodblogawards, #vimagourmetfoodblogawards, Baked pork leeks and celery leaves within bread. Pink crepes-cake with hot cheese salad. Koulouria (round breads with sesame seeds) stuffed with feta cheese. Chocolate and hazelnuts cream.
Kalamata: #aegeanairlines, #vgfoodblogawards, #vimagourmetfoodblogawards, Galeos fish (Galeorhinus galeus) with sweet tsiladia sauce. Bread with olives, Chocolate and fig treats.Lazania with Santorini’s fava: Canina caldera. Little breads with Greed Red Saffron. Almond and honey, a traditional treat of Santorini.
Sitia, baked xinohondros with vegetable sauce, sarikopites pies with xinomizithra cheese, raisin sweets.

FOOD PRESERVATION

In the open foodmarket of Crete. Ierapetra. Mandarin jam.

 Marmalade with apples, pears, raisins, Dittany of Crete and Greek Red Saffron.
Peach jam with chocolate and the 1st Peach Festival in Veria.
Preserved red peppers and roma tomatoes in the vase.

Rainier cherries “jam for spooning”.Strawberry jam.
Vine leaves in the jar.
            
IN THE CITY

Jiro dreams of sushi.
DESERTS
Lemon balm cake and its beverage.
Lemon balm cookies.Leros: #aegeanairlines, #vgfoodblogawards, #vimagourmetfoodblogawards. Little shrimp’s rice nest. Cream cheese (anthotyro) balls with aromatic sauce. Festive almonds pouches.
Marmalade with apples, pears, raisins, Dittany of Crete and Greek Red Saffron. Melomakarona, (traditional Christmas sweets) with mountain tea syrup.
My black forest.
Rainier cherries “jam for spooning”.Strawberry cake with cream. Sweet Easter with irresistible fresh strawberries.
Strawberry jam.Sitia, baked xinohondros with vegetable sauce, sarikopites pies with xinomizithra cheese, raisin sweets.
Sweet cherry cream.
Thessaloniki special edition, #aegeanairlines, #vgfoodblogawards, #vimagourmetfoodblogawards, Baked pork leeks and celery leaves within bread. Pink crepes-cake with hot cheese salad. Koulouria (round breads with sesame seeds) stuffed with feta cheese. Chocolate and hazelnuts cream.
Traditional Christmas butter cookies with almonds.Truffles with chocolate, chestnuts, honey and whisky. Pastry in Ierapetra, Crete.
Tsoureki with chocolate and almonds.Sweet Easter bread.
Vasilopita 2015, New Year’s Day sweet bread
.

BEE AND HONEY

Chocolate cake with extra virgin olive oil, honey, walnuts and white chocolate glaze. 
Delicious cheese bites with seeds and honey sauce. 
Desert with honey, lime cream, grapes and almonds.
Delicious cheese bites with seeds and honey sauce.  
Green salad with pastrami - beef ham, and honey. 
Slow cooked pork feet with honey and red puree with smashed beetroot and potato.
Squid burgers, roasted potatoes and mustard-honey sauce.  
Truffles with chocolate, chestnuts, honey and whisky. Pastry in Ierapetra, Crete.
Veal with beer, honey and aromatic rice.

SPICES

CITIES


                                                    
INFO FOR AROMATIC HERBS

Melissa officinalis.


                                                    KOLYVA
Kollyva. A sweet wheat dish for the loved ones that passed away.