Happy New Month - Καλό Μήνα και Καλές Διακοπές!!!

Have a nice month - Καλό Μήνα!!!

Playing tic-tac-toe with rice pudding, after all its September :-)

Τρίλιζα με ρυζόγαλο, καλή σχολική χρονιά!!!

Happy New Month - Καλό Μήνα και Καλές Διακοπές!!!

Happy New Month - Καλό Μήνα!!!

Homemade Cretan orange pie - Σπιτική κρητική πορτοκαλόπιτα!!!

This is a recipe for Cretan orange pie (portokalopita) without philo (pastry)!

Ingredients:

3 glasses  flour

2 glasses sugar

2 glasses orange juice

1 glass olive oil

1 shot cognac

zest from 2 oranges

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

½  teaspoon cinnamon

1 glass = 330ml

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 180 C using air circulation mode (fan).

Mix baking powder with flower.

In a large bowl beat the olive oil and sugar with a mixer until it becomes fluffy.

Then add orange zest, cognac and cinnamon. Continue beating until incorporated.

Dissolve baking soda in orange juice and add it to the mix.

Add the flour and mix it.

Grease three 20cm diameter disposable trays and pour in the mixture.

Bake each tray separately for 50 minutes. 

Good luck baking and do not forget to enjoy & share the love!!! 

Happy New Month - Καλό Μήνα!!!

Homemade apple & cinnamon marmalade - Σπιτική μαρμελάδα μήλου!

Have a nice month - Καλό Μήνα!!!

Happy New Month - Καλό Μήνα

In Greece we have a saying for the 1st of the month, we wish Καλό Μήνα (kalo mina) which actually translates to "good month". Its a wish that we give on the 1st day of each month for the prosperity of the rest of the month. You can give this wish to all the people you'll talk on that day, regardless if you've met them before, is something that usually follows after saying for example, Good Morning, so you will say Good Morning (kalimera)and Happy New Month (kalo mina). Thus, I'm wishing you the best for this month and I also add a photo of one of our newborn kitties, more to follow... :-)

Καλό Μήνα σε όλους και ιδού και ένα απο τα νεογέννητα γατάκια μας, θα ακολουθήσουν και άλλα...:-) Φτύστε τα να μην μου τα ματιάσετε.