Eleni from @myfamilysfooddiary shares her family recipe for Battered Zucchini Flowers with Halloumi! Eleni’s grandmother would often make these for her family when Eleni was growing up in Cyprus! Sweet, aromatic zucchini-flowers stuffed with a slice of salty, squeaky halloumi, a fresh mint leaf and then lightly battered and fried to delicious golden perfection! YUM!!!! Thank you […]
Cypriot Recipes, Short and Sweet Videos
Greek Grain Salad Recipe | Cypriot style with Blackcurrant and Pomegranate
Original recipe by George Calombaris This Cypriot Grain Salad, originally by George Calombaris, has featured at our Christmas table for the last 12-15 years. When I first started making it, the children were very young and time was always of the essence – so I took a few short cuts and I also did a […]
Cooking With Our Guests, Cypriot Recipes, Eleni G
Eleni’s Cypriot Sour Trahana Soup with Chicken Recipe
For this Meri Month of May recipe we visited our cousins in Cyprus and learned how to make sour trahana and also the much-loved Cypriot Sour Trahana Soup! The EVER-AMAZING Eleni Georges @myfamilysfooddiary takes us step-by-step through both processes, with handy hints along the way! It’s a gorgeous soup, it is reminiscent of a tangy avgolemo soup, […]
This beautiful Cypriot Orange-Semolina Cake was originally shared by Mary (mum of @candlesbynikoletta) during our Meri Month of May in 2020. It is citrusy, nutty, moist and has a lovely sweet-bitter balance. It is perfect as a celebration cake, tea cake, Christmas cake and even a Vasilopita. I have baked it many times and have […]
Cooking With Our Guests, Cypriot Recipes, Eleni G
Eleni’s Sheftalies – Traditional Cypriot Pork Sausage Recipe
Eleni’s passion for cooking was ignited as a young girl watching her mother and her nine aunts, all sisters, cooking together and preparing family feasts. Eleni witnessed the joy of cooking, companionship and collective creativity, as she watched these women working together. The food they then shared was infused with all these memories; memories that […]