These days I’m finishing the many lectures that I started during the last school year and I never got to finish. There is both dread and satisfaction in picking up unfinished books. Dread because most of the time I cannot remember a lot of the details of the book, which means that I have to,… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Hearty Food
Raw Avocado and Wild Garlic Tart
Scenario number 1: I invite people for dinner. I cook vegetarian food. Lots of it. 5 appetizers, soup, 2 main vegetable dishes with rice and 2 little ones (butter – roasted mushrooms and grilled zucchini usually), salad and desert. People look at the food a little confused at the beginning, they get accustomed to the… Continue Reading
Ancient Omelette with Asparagus and Fresh Herbs
Today I tried another ancient recipe. This one is from Apicius’ book, “De Re Coquinaria”. Marcus Gavius Apicius was a Roman epicure who lived in the 1st century AD. However, “De Re Coquinaria” ( eng. “About Cooking” or “On the Art of Cooking”) was not written by Apicius himself, even though it is attributed to… Continue Reading
Comfort Food – Mung Beans Soup
Today was one of those days when I just wanted to transform into a cat and sleep under the dining table all day long. I guess my karma was not good enough to be born as a cat so I am stuck in a human body…Therefore, since I was feeling cold all morning and I… Continue Reading
Gastris – Ancient Greek Nut Cake with Poppy and Sesame Seeds
As I mentioned in other posts on this blog, I am currently a student and one of the subjects I’m majoring in is Classics, focusing on ancient languages. Ancient Greek and Latin, to be more precise. I love very much what I chose to study, I am still very passionate about it, but there is… Continue Reading