So this might seem a bit weird. Why would a Greek go to see The Real Greek chef make moussaka? “Isn’t it like your national dish?”, “Don’t you know how to make it from birth?” Yes, thank you I get the point, even though I learned how to make it when I was 23. When (…)
These days my sister and I are at my mum’s and my stepdad’s house in Atalanti Greece. You can imagine the mayhem. On Friday we had amazing weather so we went out in the garden to gather wild greens. They are called χόρτα (chorta – wild greens) in Greek and we gather them from gardens (…)
Let’s get the scary stuff out of the way first. This is a post about soup with INTESTINES. (Wait! Come back!) So, now that we are left with the brave folks here goes the story. Mama Despoina (also my mum – she simply rocks) blogged the recipe for Magiritsa the other day, the Greek traditional (…)
Since we started getting an organic fruit and veg box delivery each week I have been trying out all sorts of new things. It’s so exciting to be getting vegetables every week that you’ve never tried. It makes you look for information, learn and do new stuff. Sort of brilliant. Especially since we are going (…)
Lent for the Greek Orhodox people starts on a Monday. Much neater that way, don’t you think? I already posted the other day on Tsiknopempti, our BBQ Thursday. Then there is the Sunday of Apokreo – very similar to Halloween, but probably a bit more Dionysian in nature – when we dress up, eat, drink, (…)
If you ever happen to be walking around a Greek town or village and it seems that there are BBQ smells everywhere chances are it’s probably Tsiknopempti. (It could also be Easter Sunday but in that case the smell is the roasting lamb on a spit so you’ll know quite quickly which is which). Tsiknopempti (…)
Koulourakia are amazing little biscuits that we all grow up with in Greece. They are hard on the outside but nice and soft on the inside. Not as soft as cookies though. They are part of your everyday life in Greece as grandmothers and aunties always have them handy to dunk in coffee and then (…)
I’ve been watching Nigel Slater‘s (he really needs a new website) Simple Cooking on BBC lately. What actually made me watch it in the first place was the amazing title sequence. I want to bake something for the people who thought of having episode and recipe titles on food packages. So cute! What kept me (…)
There is something about London in November that just makes me ache for hearty soups and curling up on the sofa with thick socks. It’s not so much the cold – it gets worse over December and January. It is all about the sharp smell of the cold to come in the air. Sort of (…)
I uploaded a pic of our dinner today on Google+ and Stratos asked for the recipe. That is to say he actually threatened that he would have a heart attack if I didn’t share it. Fine. You know me, I’m here for my friends. What you need to know about this recipe is that roasted chicken (…)
Dunno if I mentioned this (I may have, as I ‘ve been shouting it from the rooftops) but my love, Manolis, arrived in London this Saturday. So, I prepared a celebratory meal. However, just because we’re in love it doesn’t mean I should have cooked quails with roses and the like. Cooking with love means (…)
Here I am with the first ever Digital Scullery video in English. Cheers to all the friends of the Greek blog for the idea, by the way if people hate the video I’m blaming you I honestly thought about doing the Greek accent but I sound so fake that I just stuck to my own. (…)
Roxakia are a Greek type of sweet dough. I hope it’s mainly Greek but you never know. Anyway. They are bite sized cocoa and vanilla and cinnamon goodies that look lovely and taste like heaven. Avoid if syrupy stuff is not your cup of tea, but you will love them if you like any of (…)
It seems that the Dukan diet is sweeping the whole world , not just the nation (please get the media to stop with Carole Middleton and how she got her figure!). It does have some weird and interesting recipes (mainly with oat bran admittedly) and I mentioned that I wanted to make the muffins on (…)
One of the main problems with pork chops is finding a way to cook them in the oven that doesn’t result in them becoming like a sock. And while good cooks just know how to cook pork chops properly I just ended up making up a recipe to keep the pork juicy. They end up (…)
Auntie Sofia and the Digital Scullery kitchen love videos, photo recipes and mashing up Greek and world food. We mainly love GRUB, of the type that puts hair on your chest. Gourmet and cuisine are two words we just don't get.
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