The first “hello” of LentClean Monday marks the first day of Great Lent in Eastern Christianity  and in Greece it’s often celebrated outdoors — with a Lenten table and kite flying. At the center of that table is lagana: the traditional sesame flatbread closely linked...

Pizza dough is easy to make and can also be stored in the freezer.Ingredients: 400 g durum wheat flour 2–3 tbsp olive oil 250 ml lukewarm water 1 tsp salt Sift the flour together with the salt, forming a small mound*. Make a well in the center and add the sourdough...

Gluten-Free Flours  Most of us are familiar with — and accustomed to — wheat, barley, and rye, which dominate our daily diet. When we are required to follow a gluten-free diet, we may initially feel overwhelmed by the thought that we must forget everything we know....

Thridax called in ancient times lettuce and despite its Asian origin, existed in ancient Greece according to Hesiod. Its addition to the dough probably gave the first bread with extra properties and different kind of taste. Lactuca is antidepressant drug and hypnotic,...

Whether the flesh or the seeds of the pumpkin, the ultimate autumn vegetable, can provide significant benefits to our health.Selection and maintenance When shopping, try to choose the pumpkin to be tough with skin clean without dents. The stem should be properly...

Yeast is a microorganism (or many) with rapid replication, which when added to the flour- and under ideal conditions,  do raise. Once it gets moisture additions and under the right temperature, the microorganism will be rapidly reproduced, creating large amounts of...

Flour-All we need to know Cereals and grains offer flour in many varieties and types for different applications in cooking or baking.Durum flour:Due to the high content of gluten and protein, this type of flour lends a particularly elastic dough and is produced from...

Ingredients: 30 g yeast 1 tsp. sugar 3 1/3 cup (500 g) all purpose flour 1/4 cup (60 mL) extra virgin olive oil 1 tbs salt We prepare the dough as it is described here.  For the yeast, we can buy it or we can make it as it is described here. When the dough rises, we...

The method of homemade yeast, or sourdough, or natural yeast is the oldest method ever used for the rising of the dough in order to make bread: Dough from flour and water sits in room temperature to absorb the living organisms that are in the air and they feed from...

The idea of making bougatsa, comes from the geographical region of Byzantium; more specifically, from Konstantinople, when the City was still Greek, before 1453 A.D. that is. It is widely known that the Byzantines had a long tradition in the making of pies and...