Author: Athena Konstantinou
Magiritsa | The Greek Easter Traditional Soup
Mageiritsa it’s a very easy-to-make soup, but you must have some cooking skills and patience, especially with the lamb offal (since I feel a bit weird when I wash them and prepare them) and I promise you that …
Crust topping Greek Cheese pie with Feta & Yogurt
I know is been a while to post or better, I haven’t been posting as often as I used to and I also know that the photos and the text is less in this post and yes, …
Soupa Louvana me tiganisi | A gluten free & vegan Cypriot traditional soup!
I know that this is the second soup post in a row but in Cyprus the weather is changing rapidly and spring is around the corner, so I wanted to catch up with a few more winter recipes. …
Trahanas Soup | A Greek & Cypriot super food soup with haloumi & sausage
I live in a country where it resides among three continents, Europe, Asia and Africa and co-exist amongst many countries where are influenced by the Mediterranean cuisine, the middle eastern cuisine, Turkish and the Greek kitchen and is …
Coloured Glazed Vanilla Cakes | with winter fruits & icing sugar
I can’t believe that is nearly the end of the first month of 2017! It was only a “few” days ago that I had to start preparing my posts and work for Christmas and I had to have …
Christmas Special | Caramelised Chestnuts with Honey & Thyme
Chestnuts existed in my life as a Mediterranean Greek ever since I can remember. They have been used everywhere and in every possible way, from around November to end January, with a peak in December and the festive …
A Cake for Christmas & Champagne floating
“Christmas is that period of the year we are all entitled to indulge ourselves into luxury and exaggeration in every form, from the way we dress and look to way the food and decorations look. Is that period …
Tales from the Christmas table | The Goose & the oranges
The Christmas table, either on Christmas Eve or on Christmas Day, is a tale of its own since is surrounded by Magic from head to toe. Magic in its creation, magic in its decoration, magic in the food …
Gift Wrap from me to you for Christmas | With amazing sweets from a unique Deluxe collection
When I was a child every afternoon we were gathering from house to house with my friends and we used to play various games pretending that we were living in the world of the grownups. One of the …
8 Steps & Tips to styling the perfect Cheese Platters for Christmas
A cheese and meat platter is something that is done and served in many café, restaurants, wine & delicacies, bars, hotel lounges and of course at home. It is, phenomenally an easy thing to prepare and a solution …
Finger Food Ideas for a Deluxe Christmas Day Soirée | A festive & luxury early afternoon for friends & family |
The word Deluxe on its own, it makes you instantly think of expensive and unaffordable products, since Deluxe is a word synonymous to luxury & quality. But when time came to discover the word Deluxe in my world, a …
Duck Liver Pate with Orange served on Rye toast bread with Goat’s Cheese
I can’t believe that Christmas are finally here, only days after Halloween as I can’t believe that there are people out there that say Christmas makes them melancholic and sad. I really can’t since I honestly believe that …
Cinnamon & other spiced rolls with cream cheese and nuts | A winter’s bake special
It’s November, the month of Food Festival in UK, the month of Thanksgiving in America and the month that brings Christmas’s to the rest of the world and that is why planning and preparing ahead are way up to …
Goat Cheese & Spinach home-made Ravioli
Halloween and October are coming slowly to the end and I have already uploaded my last post for the season a few days ago, saying farewell to the second month of Autumn. Sometimes I write my posts a few …
Slow-Cooked Shrimp Orzo with Shallots & Dill
Today I have decided to talk about truths. (!) As a person the truth is, I hate lies, but sometimes we need to adjust. To adjust to a situation, to a white lie, to a lie that can …
KOLOKOTES | Traditional Cypriot Pumpkin pies | Grandma’s recipe
Kolokotes, is a traditional Cypriot recipe of Pumpkin pies. This recipe belongs to my grandma and I could have never, ever anticipated that being around her in my childhood, I would eventually “inherited” a legacy so rich, as …
Spicy Pumpkin Cupcakes | Halloween special
Falling in love is not always about a man. Or a woman. Falling in love can be with various things. You can fall in love with Autumn, or Winter, your new or existing house, an opportunity that arose …
The golden Harvest & Halloween month | Cream of Pumpkin Spicy Soup
Back again, for one more October post, the cream of pumpkin spicy soup, another post that signals Autumn and the early days of winter, the first rains, the golden harvest, the change of the colour of the sky, …
Roasted Pumpkin with Sea salt & Cinnamon, Thyme & Olive oil | A Halloween treat |
Yes, Yes, Yes!! October – the month of Halloween is finally here, – the weather has not changed much but still, the smells have changed, cinnamon & herbs like thyme are added to our routine, the harvest colours …
Blackberries & Blueberries Pancakes with Maple Syrup
I know I sound cliché – not that it bothers me much – and I also know that we all made tones of pancakes, ate kilos of blackberries and blueberries and loved or hate maple syrup by now …
Strawberry Mini Tarts & Is crop season again
It’s crop season again… and again… and again because is always crop season, any season any place on earth, whether you are in the UK or Cyprus, USA or Canada, Australia or Japan, where the sun is blooming or …
Off you go, Bake!!! The British Bake off Victorias Sponge cake with Vanilla and fruits
When I decided to create this post I had in mind that the post – except for the cake ingredients and directions – would have a little text, speaking for one of my greatest loves in tv today, …
Sunday Brunch tradition | Quiche Lorraine Pie & The British Bake Off inspiration
An English Breakfast or an English brunch is a must tradition every Sunday in our home, either by ourselves or with a few selected loved ones. Eggs, bread – fried in pure olive oil – Portobello mushrooms, and …
Happy National burger day!
Today, August 25th, is National burger day and I presume we all celebrate in a way. A proper burger is the king of tastes, succulent, juice tender mouthwatering prime quality beef cooked with the simplest ingredients and served …
Fig salad with caramelised oranges & blue cheese | Cookbook recipe
Ok. I am back in action!! With a new post, a new blog – oh yeah and I love it and hope you’ll love it too – and a new photography site, athenaconstantinouphotography.com!!! I know it’s been a while …
Black-eyed beans salad with Couscous & smoke-cured herring| Recipe coming soon at my cookbook
Yeah I know… One more post without a recipe and you have every right to be bit mad about me… But c’mmon guys, the food styling is amazing! And is such a shame not to share it with …
Bream fish in the oven with herbs & Lemon | A semi finalist photo in The Pink Lady Food Photography Competition 2016
Bream Fish or Tsipoura in Greek, is a medium-sized fish found in the Mediterranean waters and is widely known in Greece and Cyprus for it’s delicious taste. It’s a well-known in all fish taverns throughout Cyprus and the …
Spanakopita | Greek spinach pie with fetta cheese & dill
Spanakopita is one of the top five most famous Greek dishes worldwide, among the Greek salad, mousakka, souvlaki and tzatziki. Spanakopita seems complex but really is derived from two simple words, that’s spinach and pitta, which means pie …
Greek Gyro in pita bread | Marinated pork loin with tzatziki sauce in Greek bread
“Pitogyro is a complex word, from pitta – that’s Greek bread and gyros – the pork or chicken that is inside the pitta.” “Pitogyro” is a word synonymous to Greeks and although you may think it is not …
Creme of Pumpkin Soup | Not just a Halloween special
I know it’s been so long to post and trust me I really feel awful about it, but some things even if you love them as much as I love creation and story telling, are not going as plan …
