Gourmet Recipes & Healthy Living
A collection of my favorite kitchen tips and how-to tutorials and information about specific food items and tools to help you become a better home cook.
A collection of my favorite kitchen tips and how-to tutorials and information about specific food items and tools to help you become a better home cook.
At the beginning of your kitchen adventures, some culinary terms used in recipes may be unfamiliar. But don’t pass them up just because you do not know what they mean. This handy Kitchen Glossary will help you during your first steps. Al Dente: Cooking the food to the point that it is tender but just firm, …
Mastiha (mastic) is the sap of the mastic tree (pistacia lentiscus bush, an evergreen) that grows in the Greek island of Chios. Although the tree grows in other areas of the Mediterranean, only on southern Chios is the mastic trees produce this aromatic sap with all its wonderful properties. The mastic sap is sun-dried into …
Have you ever wondered how to store fresh herbs so that they do not wilt or dry within a few days? Don’t worry — storing them so they last far longer than a few days is easier than you think. Parsley, dill, basil, tarragon, mint, cilantro, purslane. Parsley, dill, basil, tarragon, mint, cilantro and purslane are delicate …
This website is my dream to do something different and share everything I learned from my Cretan grandmother and my mother, who has roots form the island of Cefallonia, along with new wisdom gained while struggling to be healthy while everything around us is not.
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