Amidst an avalanche of kids' performances and business parties to attend to, hundreds of to-do bullets to cross off your planner, ridiculously long shopping lists to go through, and the aftermath of Thanksgiving dinner, Christmas & New Year's dinners can be a tad intimidating—and that's an
Gingerbread Spice Mix
You may as well call it the European equivalent to Pumpkin Spice! It's the blend used by Germans, Swedish, Danes, Dutch, British et al. to make ginger cookies/biscuits (ginger nuts/ginger snaps), lebkuchen, and gingerbread everything. You can use it in all your holiday baking or
Serendipity Muffins – Φανουρο-μάφιν!
“The way the... muffin crumbles”
What are the Serendipity Muffins, I hear you ask. One of the very first recipes I shared here on the blog was that for a traditional Greek Saint Fanourios' Cake. The mystical story behind said recipe holds that on the night of August 26th, women bake a
How to Sanitize Kitchen Microfiber Cloths
One of the very first posts I've written here, on KBtP, is not a recipe nor a travel post! It's rather one on my quest to properly educate myself on recycling, switching from chemical cleaners to natural ones, and cutting down on using all the disposable cleaning aids I had been used to using for so
Cappuccino Freddo – The Milk Saga
Every year this time, I usually share—and re-share—what has proven to be a rather popular post on this blog: how to make a true Cappuccino Freddo (an iced cappuccino) at home. In that original post, I explain cappuccino, hot and iced, give a short description of espresso machines, a run-down of the
7 Food Trends I Don’t Care About
Uncut, restaurant green salads
All of a sudden chefs decided than greens cut into bite-size pieces were a horrendous practice dating back to the days when it was considered impolite to eat salad with a knife. So they begun tearing leaves by hand. There's some science behind the practice as
Lake Kerkini – Serres
A morning @ Lake Kerkini {part 2}
I didn't think you've had enough of the amazing Lake Kerkini, where you can feast your eyes on the horizon for hours on end and lose the line between the sky and the water, so there you go!
Στο βορειοδυτικό τμήμα του νομού Σερρών, μόλις 40 χλμ. από την
Lake Kerkini – Serres
A morning @ Lake Kerkini {part 1}
Lake Kerkini (in Greek: Λίμνη Κερκίνη) is an artificial reservoir that was created in 1932, when the first dam was constructed to contain the waters of Strymonas River, on the site of what was previously an extensive marshland. It lays in the northwest
Lemon Chiffon Cake, two ways!
Please bear with me as introducing chiffon cakes to my Greek audience makes for a rather long post! You can find the recipe in English if you scroll all the way to the end.
Αν καθήσουμε να απαριθμήσουμε τα πολλά διαφορετικά είδη κέικ θα μας πάρει μέρες, είναι γεγονός – αν πιάσουμε δε και τα
Baked Anchovies – Back to My Roots feature
My good friend, Krystina Kalapothakos, the brilliant chef behind Kouzounas Kitchen, has recently published her first little gem of a cookbook, Back to My Roots. Two of my own recipes, originally posted here on the blog, are also featured in it, so you may as well go ahead and call this a shameless
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