The posts feature recipes that we have gathered and created during our travels, including recipes from The Dish and Weekend Eggs posts.
These are the essential dishes beginner cooks should learn to make to build a repertoire of basic recipes that cover every meal, from breakfast to lunch and dinner. They include recipes for perfect boiled eggs, French toast and rice porridge, a great salad and classic vinaigrette, poached chicken, homemade hummus, a soup, pasta, meatballs, a … Read more
This blistered cherry tomatoes on goat cheese recipe makes a classic Greek mezze – a snack, starter or side dish that’s served as one of an array of appetisers. It’s a brilliant side to grilled skewers or meatballs or a simple snack on sourdough. You can fry the cherry tomatoes in a pan or roast … Read more
This easy artichoke dip recipe with red peppers and green olives makes a versatile clean-out-the-fridge dip. Like all Mediterranean mezze that can be eaten as snacks, dips, starters, or sides, you can spread this antipasti-inspired dip onto toasted sourdough, serve it in a bowl and scoop it up with pita bread or crisps, or enjoy … Read more
This Greek eggplant dip recipe makes melitzanosalata or ‘eggplant salad’ in Greek. The smoky aubergine dip can be spread onto pita or crusty sourdough and eaten as a snack, dished up as one of an array of mezedes – Greek dips, starters and appetisers often labelled as ‘drinking food’ – or served as a salad … Read more
Our chicken souvlaki recipe makes classic Greek grilled skewers marinated in dried oregano, thyme and mint, garlic, extra virgin olive oil, and lemon juice. The Greek kebabs are cooked in a grill pan on the stovetop, but you could slide them under an oven-grill (broiler) or do them on a barbecue. Serve them on pita, … Read more