“I’m still writing 1997 on my checks” – Sarah Silverman. That’s kinda how I feel. But it’s definitely 2014 because I have just eaten plate full of homemade loukoumades. Loukoumades are a New Year tradition in Cyprus. My aunt told me that every 6 January when my grandma made loukoumades in the village, she would […]
I have my grandma’s hands. I can tell because they are very small and the wrinkles show more. I remember noticing that about her hands when I was a kid. That they were small and wrinkly. We would visit my grandma every other summer in her village in Pafos, Cyprus called “Amargeti” for at least […]
Alphabetical & By Category TRADITIONAL CYPRUS RECIPES almond shortbread (“kourabiedes”) apricot jam cookies (“pasta flora”) arazole jelly (“mosphila” jelly) baklava butternut squash pies (“kolokotes”) coriander crushed olives (“elies tsakistes”) crushed wheat soup (making “trahana”) cyprus almond macaroons (“ervoglavi”) cyprus butter cookies (“koulourakia”) cyprus coffee cyprus easter bread (“flaounes”) cyprus lemonade (“lemonatha’) cyprus olive bread (“eliopittes”) […]
