Pasta with caramelized onions, paprika and yoghurt

Yoghurt in Greek cuisine has been used for ages and in many different ways. Here is a traditional recipe with very simple ingredients and a very simple way of cooking but with a delicious result. A recipe that mainly comes from up North Greece but, with a few variations, it can be found in other areas as well. In some areas we find the recipe cooked with "Hylopites", the Greek "egg noodles" . Others though insist that the recipe goes better with any type of tubular pasta (like macaroni, penne etc)

Green peppers stuffed with feta cheese

This is a delicious meze for all seasons but during the Summer months is even more enjoyable since you can share it with friends having a nice cold beer or ouzo! The key ingredient here is the good quality of feta cheese. It is an easy recipe to make and you could cook the peppers in the oven or shallow fry them. The result in both cases is mouth watering...

Skordalia - Garlic dip with bread and walnuts

"Skordalia" is one of the two best friends of the fried salt cod but also accompanies other kind of fried fish or sea food, fried aubergines and other boiled or fried veggies or greens as well as other meze type of dishes. You can make skordalia with potatoes or bread. I prefer the latter version with walnuts in and that's the recipe today, but I will give you eventually the potato version so to have the chance to try both and see the difference. In older times they used to make the skordalia in a wooden or bronze mortar and personally I prefer this way because it is more chunky. Still, today I present to you both methods and you choose which one is more suitable for you

Classic Greek beetroot salad

This is a simple but such a tasty salad which you can have any time in the year but, along with the "fried salt cod" and the "garlic dip", completes the "trio" of  the traditional recipes for the National Day celebrations of the 25th of March. In Greece, although we are not a vegetarian or vegan nation by nature (at least not by the classic (or modern if you like) meaning of the word) we always loved our vegetables and greens and salads and we have so many different ways of cooking them! The beetroots, for example, we boil them and then eat them as a salad without discarding the green leaves as I see they do in other countries, and believe me they are so sweet in taste and delicious! You should try them this way some time

Walnut pie with phyllo pastry

This is a different version of the classic walnut pie and no... it doesn't look or taste like a baklava... Actually, in some areas this dessert substitutes the baklava in Christmas period

Little fluffy cheese pies

Another version of cheese pies with home made pastry. They are very tasty and this type of dough is different in texture from the classic phyllo sheets or other doughs and makes the cheese pies really soft and fluffy. An excellent snack for all hours and a nice idea for a party