Greek apple pie with walnuts in phyllo pastry

A delicious dessert with an aromatic filling of apples and spices covered with crunchy phyllo sheets. A great alternative to the classic apple pies

Banana cake with orange frosting

An easy and so tasty cake for all hours! Great company to your tea or coffee but also a nice alternative for your breakfast or a snack during the day. The rich frosting and the bananas make it so irresistible

Phyllo pastry rolls with chicken and eggs

Tasty little chicken rolls with crunchy phyllo pastry. A delicious idea for the leftover Easter eggs!

Lamb "kapamas" with potatoes for Easter Sunday

This is not the most common way of having the Easter lamb but it is a nice alternative for those who would like to have something different than the classic recipes. With the term "Kapamas" we mean the meat dish (traditionally lamb, goat or beef but it can also be found with chicken) cooked in a pot in low heat and always covered with the lid while cooking and where the vegetables are added later on. "Kapamas" is nothing more than the turkish term of what the Greeks mean by ".... in the pot" and stayed with us thanks to the Greeks of Asia Minor. There are people though who object saying that "kapamas" is indeed slowly cooked but with the pot uncovered... I'd love to find out which of the two ways of cooking is the correct one but in the end of the day what really matters is the delicious taste of such kind of recipes. Ideal dish for big families or when we have guests around since we don't need to cook a separate side dish. You could even cook the meat the day before and add the vegetables in the pot the next day. The unusual stage of the specific version of the dish is that, although it is cooked with tomato, you can also add an egg & lemon sauce in the pot in the end of the cooking ("avgolemono")

Potato salad with Easter eggs

This is an easy, filling and soooo tasty potato salad, one of my favourites! It is, of course, an all year round salad but usually plenty of dyed Easter eggs are left in the fridge and this recipe is a good idea to use them up. It can be served at room temperature or even cold

No-oil mixed green salad for Good Friday

One more recipe for those who follow the Holy Week fasting to the letter and they don't eat any oil. A refreshing and quite filling salad with plenty of vegetables and herbs. The dressing, even without any oil in, is very tasty and helps the vegetables to free their aroma and flavour