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I’m often amazed at how a food aroma can create a memory that stays with you for years to come – one whiff and you are instantly transported back to that time or place.
For me fresh mint still reminds me of walking out of my yaya’s (my Greek grandmother) back door and getting a waft of the fresh mint growing in abundance in her backyard. The smell of sausage rolls still takes me back to sitting on the classroom floor as the lunch orders arrive and fresh passionfruit conjures memories of picking them from the trellis on my German nana’s back fence and eating them with her in the backyard; the tangy juice dripping in our hands and running down our arms.
Both of my grandmothers were amazing cooks and always loved to feed me. No matter what time of the day or night I turned up, they would always effortlessly whip up one of my favourites, if they hadn’t done so already.
Unfortunately, I was too young to fully appreciate how special these recipes were and how much they would come to mean to me. To this day I have never been able to replicate my nana’s incredible apple strudel and potato salad, or find recipes that even resemble them.
I still long for my yaya’s thick cut homemade potato chips – crisp and golden on the outside and soft and fluffy on the inside. You would think homemade chips would be easy enough to make, but I have never tasted anything like them since.
Other favourites include her Yemistes (Greek stuffed vegetables) and her Ryzogalo (warm rice pudding). I still remember my delight when I would enter her kitchen and see the warm cinnamon-dusted puddings waiting for me on her kitchen bench, you could smell them from the front door. Heavenly.
It’s taken me years to find recipes that taste just like yaya used to make, and so for this weeks theme of homemade, chosen by Laszlo, I have featured two recipes I am able to replicate and love to make, and they are her Ryzogalo (pictured left) and Yemistes.
Also featured in this photo is a favourite photo of mine of my mum as a young girl with her mum, my yaya, in Sparta, Greece not long before they came to Australia to live. You can also see a hint of my yaya’s Greek passport which features a photo, which you can’t see here, of my yaya with her four young children.
The tablecloth in this photo is also exactly like the ones my yaya had and I have a lovely Greek friend who was kind enough to lend me the tablecloth (which was her yaya's) for this photo, how I wish I had one of those from my yaya too.
Thank you Laszlo for a wonderful theme and a delicious trip down memory lane for me this week.
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Y por fin llega ese día en que me queda algo de tiempo para dedicarle a lo que ya es una tradición en casa... Galletas navideñas.
My first attempt and It is better than store bought. This may ruin me from eating store bought pizza again. I didn't pre-bake the crust per dough directions and it was perfect.
I dyed the egg whites orange and then piped the filling in and topped them with a caper, lettuce leaf and fresh ground black pepper.
The trouble with homemade dresses is that sometimes I don’t get round to put the finishing touches on them until months and months later.
Today I really will sew the beads on this dress that I made last year! *yikes*
ADAD April
Product of Shirley's new toy (cappuccino maker)
She's supposed to use the coffee to make some Tiramisu later...
I asked Stu on a rating from 1 to 10 what he would give this pizza, he said an 11! I made it in my Toaster Oven on the Pizza setting. It worked great! The crust is made from Almond Flour, so it was a bit different than some others, and I added fresh Basil and Oregano from my Herb Garden. Baking it in the toaster oven keeps the kitchen nice and cool!
...this weekend, the mood around our home was ..."homemade" & mostly light blue in colours, paired with naturals. These are some of my favorite things in these tones.
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I came across this homemade bollard on one of my outings. Looks like it's made from what you had available - an old drive shaft. This has probably done its usefulness for many years.
A dish by Vegusta, Vegan Street Food in Rome.