crusty onion and cheese muffins
The date of my last post is almost a month and a half in the past AND it’s in a calendar year that we’ve left behind. Happy 2012 folks! I don’t usually make a big deal about New Years but 2011 has...
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One of the (many) things I had absolutely no tolerance for in my pre-baby life was the concept of make-ahead dinners. In my mind, the idea of a meal you make well in advance of eating is/was just so...
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You know, I really do a little happy dance at the sight of any recipe that has green onions in its name. I say ‘in its name’ because while there’s tons of recipes out there that list the modest green...
View Articlebulgur and chickpea salad with roasted red peppers
Beyond a rather longish list of meats and animal parts I’ve never been much of a fan of, there is exactly one fruit and one vegetable I still fail to stomach. Ta-da, I present to you the melon and the...
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The year was 2004, almost 2005. On that mild winter’s night of December 30th, my two best friends and I were hunched over books in the living room of my apartment in Thessaloniki. The girls had...
View Articlechilli, smoked cheese and roast pepper muffins
We spent this Sunday at our friends’ house on the outskirts of the city. Under the scorching sun and amidst the heaps of barbequed meats, the reggae music in the background, the flowing beer and...
View Articlespinach feta tortilla lasagne
If I told you that I have somewhere around 20 lasagna (or lasagne? which one?) recipes bookmarked, would you believe me? If there’s one thing all of them have in common, it’s some unusual twist; an...
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It must have been around this time last year that the idea of this blog started sprouting somewhere in my tired, sleep-deprived, new mom brain. Back at that time, I was looking for something to keep...
View Articlezucchini, feta, olive and sun-dried tomato breakfast cake
I had a draft of this post ready to go, it only needed a quick read through. It was dated November 3rd, 2012 and I actually remember the moment of writing it as if it was yesterday. Ognen had been...
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This week, I lost my last grandparent. My last living grandma passed away on Monday, thus forever stripping me and my brother of our grandchildren statuses. Both of my parents are now completely...
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So apparently I can go for 6 months without making an appearance here and the world will not end. And to those of you that have been secretly crying yourself to sleep each night in the absence of my...
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