All the bloody basics in 3 non-intimidating posts
If you've been blogging on a free platform for a while you must have heard, time and again, many “experts” and “not-so-experts” telling you you need to self-host... So, fine.
I'm not going to tire you with a tutorial: there are literally
The Simplest Peanut Butter Cookies
—and how to take them to next level! This is so simple I almost feel bad for posting under “recipes.” Let's call it friendly chit-chat instead, shall we? You can find the recipe... er, steps—let's go with that, ok—you can find the steps to making a batch of yummy peanut butter cookies if you
15+ Christmas recipes from the Mediterranean Cuisine
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
