by Sheridan | Apr 28, 2024 | Brunch, Cakes, Recipes
Tsoureki (Greek Easter Bread) While it was Easter Sunday for many Christians a month ago, Orthodox Christians (who follow the Gregorian calendar) celebrate Easter next Sunday.How many Ukrainians, I wonder, are able to celebrate anything this year? View Instructions...
by Sheridan | Mar 24, 2024 | Cocktail fare, Recipes, Starters
Search for: Devilled Eggs Here’s a hark back to the 1950s for all those retrophiliacs out there. Or perhaps should that be to ancient Rome where eggs were boiled, seasoned with spicy sauces and served at the beginning of meals?One of the earliest known recipes...
by Sheridan | Jan 7, 2024 | Cakes, Fruit, Recipes
Black-Eyed Susan Cake This is one of those marvellous moist upside-down syrup cakes, so-called because the pattern on the top, made with mangoes and blueberries, resembles the Black-Eyed Susan flower. I prefer to use Kensington Pride mangoes, also known as Bowens,...
by Sheridan | Sep 10, 2023 | Cakes, Recipes
Muhammara (Middle Eastern Red Capsicum Dip) In her fabulous book, The Cooking of The Eastern Mediterranean, Paula Wolfert writes that this is one of the outstanding dips of the eastern Mediterranean, “as delicious and striking as the far more famous hummus and...
by Sheridan | Aug 6, 2023 | Cheese, Dinner, Eggs, Lunch, Recipes, Starters
Search for: Cacio e Pepe In his recent entertaining TV series, Searching for Italy, actor Stanley Tucci goes in search of four iconic pasta dishes which he describes as staggering in their simplicity: rigatoni amatriciana, spaghetti cacio e pepe, spaghetti carbonara...
