Carrot soup with corn ceviche

Merry Christmas! I hope you spent your holidays well and that you ate well! We celebrated Christmas with our friend Yannis, and a big group of around 20 people, where each couple had to make two dishes. Our own dishes were a soup and a main dish. My main dish, with no second thought was…

Chickpeas soup with sweet potato noodles

Yesterday I came back home with a sore throat, and because I don’t like being sick, I prepared my medicine: by that I mean a hot soup, a drink with ginger-honey-lemon and a blanket. This soup is incredibly satiating as it contains lentils and chickpeas. As a child, I never liked legumes: but when you…

Turmeric porridge

This breakfast combines all the colours of sunrise and trust me, it’s going to motivate you to get out of bed in the morning. The recipe is inspired by a similar porridge recipe by Deliciously Ella. Its yellow colour is owed to turmeric which, as I ve written in my post recently, has innumerable anti-inflammatory and antioxidant…

Carob smoothie

How did it take me so long to think about making a carob smoothie? As a half Cypriot, carob is one of my favourite ingredients and I really wonder with myself how I did not think of adding it in a smoothie instead of cacao any sooner, since carob can replace cacao in most recipes. Carob looks like…

Cypriot souvlaki with quinoa and chickpeas

This is one of those recipes that you start off intending to do something but it ends up being something else…It started off as a salad for a quick lunch; I boiled the quinoa, opened a can of chickpeas and garnished with plenty of parsley and some sliced cucumber and tomato. As soon as I…

Beetroot & sweet potato soup

This soup will draw your attention due to its intense purple colour coming from the combination of sweet potato and beetroot! You can understand that it’s good for you just by its colour: beetroot is a rich source of iron, calcium, folic acid, Vitamin A and C, which are powerful antioxidants, neutralizing free radicals and…

Afelia with aubergines

I hope you had a wonderful Easter and breathed fresh air of the countryside, spent happy moments with your family and friends, and if you have overeaten, do not worry, that’s why I’m here to inspire you with my recipes. I spent Easter in Rome eating everything I avoid all year round: ice creams, pasta…

Fig chocolate souffle

Come on, let’s not complain about autumn. It’s the best weather for pumpkins, pomegranates and hot desserts. And honestly, is there a better dessert than a chocolate souffle with a melted heart that bursts out when cut ? Ice cream means nothing in front of the chocolate melt heart of a souffle. This soufflé (recipe creds to the…

Asian superfood salad

I like to think my recipes as superheroes with magical powers that can do wonders for our bodies. The magic power of this colourful salad lies not only in carrots that are rich in antioxidant provitamin A, but also radishes that detoxify the body by cleansing the blood and removing toxins through their diuretic action….

Buckwheat breadsticks

This is my mother’s recipe, I just made some small adjustments in the ingredients to make them a little more “sauchy” and give my own signature substituted half of the white flour quantity with buckwheat flour and the other half with zea or spelt flour, but you can use whatever you have at home (as…