Beef with creamy parsley sauce

A delicious recipe with a creamy white sauce flavoured with parsley

Chicken Gyros at home!!

"Gyros" the Greek name for the "donner", this delicious food which - those of you who have travelled in Greece or Turkey - you have tried more than once and are still drooling....! A dish that it is not easy to cook at home since the traditional way is to cook it in a huge spit vertically placed in a special grill and cooked while it is turning around (hence the name "gyros") very slowly. But sometimes we have to improvise so to be able to enjoy something we really enjoy. Here is a classic recipe for chicken gyros, but you can easily substitute it with pork or lamb

Octopus with artichokes and dill

A classic sea food recipe coming from the islands in the Aegean Sea. A very tasty dish with ingredients which blend together perfectly

Baked Ryzogalo with apples

This is another version of the classic Greek rice pudding. An autumn version baked in the oven with the addition of fresh and crunchy apples

Lettuce salad with feta cheese and walnuts

A variation of the classic Greek lettuce salad. Very tasty and easy to put together. It goes perfectly well with roast lamb or chicken

"Copenhagen" almond dessert with phyllo

Well, if you have already thought that (maybe) some of the Greek dishes (sweet or savoury) are or sound or look a bit weird.... what would you think about this recipe?- which probably is going to confuse you even more... How come this traditional Greek dessert has such a name?? Who would have the idea to call it after the name of Denmark's capital city and why?? Well, so far nobody really has found out and it has been known like this for ever! Maybe it was inspired from some delicious Danish type of pastries? It makes sense but we can't be sure. What we are sure about is that it was a very, very popular dessert in the '60s and usually was served along with vanilla ice cream. It was one of the children's favourite desserts. It is an almond based type of dessert, wrapped with crunchy phyllo sheets and then poured with syrup...