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Lemon Filo Cake

Lemon Filo Cake

Lemon Filo Cake excerpted from Eat Like a Greek: 100 Quick, Easy, Delicious Recipes by Marina Georgallides. Photography by Andrew Burton.

Eat Like a Greek: 100 Quick, Easy, Delicious Recipes by Marina Georgallides

100 ingenious recipes that make exciting Greek and Cypriot dishes simple, from social media sensation Marina Georgallides

In Eat Like A Greek, Marina Georgallides shares 100 easy-to-follow Greek and Cypriot recipes from her childhood, using fresh ingredients and surprisingly simple cooking methods.

Contents include:
– Dips & appetizers (including Tirokafteri, a spicy feta dip made with hot peppers)
– Breads (including Greek Flatbread, soft, fluffy and foldable breads)
– Meat & fish (including Biftekia, the Greek version of a burger patty)
– Vegetarian & vegan (including Dolmades Cake, an adaptation of the classic Greek mezze dish of stuffed vine)
– Desserts & pastries (including Easy Tiropita, a classic savory Greek pastry stuffed with cheese and egg)

Rooted in tradition but designed to be adapted, Marina’s recipes make the flavorful dishes that she grew up with accessible to all cooks. From a Portokalopita recipe that doesn’t require you to oven dry the filo pastry to a flatbread recipe that only needs one hour proving time, no dish is out of reach. (more…)

Warm Lemon Saucing Cake

Warm Lemon Saucing Cake

Warm Lemon Saucing Cake excerpted from Anna Olson’s Baking Wisdom: The Complete Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Make You a Better Baker (with 150+ Recipes) by Anna Olson. Copyright © 2023 Olson Food Concepts Inc. Photography by Janis Nicolay.

Anna Olson's Baking Wisdom: The Complete Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Make You a Better Baker (with 150+ Recipes) by Anna Olson

Inside Baking Wisdom lies the answer to every baking question you’ve ever had (and many you haven’t yet), plus over 150 perfected recipes—both savoury and sweet—for bakers of all skill levels. Get inside Anna’s baking brain, as she shares a career’s worth of experience to build a true masterclass in baking. In this incredible baking compendium, you will learn the hows and whys of baking through her flawless techniques, patient advice and literally hundreds of photos. This is an all-encompassing guide, guaranteed to make you a better baker.

Whether you want to perfect your pie dough or dedicate your weekend to assembling a masterpiece Torta Setteveli, there is a recipe in Baking Wisdom for you:

ESSENTIALS • PIES & TARTS • PASTRIES • CAKES • CUSTARDS & CREAMS • CONFECTIONS •  COOKIES & BARS • BREADS

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The best thing I ate this month – February 2016

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Photograph by Carl Tremblay – America’s Test Kitchen

A two layer cake with one batter? Lemon pudding cakes are a desert that should be beset with any number of issues. Yet during baking, the egg whites miraculously rise to the top in soufflé fashion, while the lemon pudding skillfully sinks to the bottom—just like magic! But how is this achieved? Carefully and with expert guidance from the fine folks at America’s Test Kitchen.

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