by Maria Koinaki | 4 Oct 2017 | post
Where does your bottle of olive oil reside in your kitchen? Does it sit next to the cooker? Or is it kept in the kitchen cupboard? These are really important points to think about as your choice of location will determine how well the oil is looked after. Extra virgin...
by Maria Koinaki | 25 Jul 2017 | post
At a glance, the answer to this question is pretty simple. The juice that is extracted from olives once they are pressed into oil. But once they are pressed, cold pressed for that matter, we see different variants of olive oil available, virgin, extra virgin and...
by Maria Koinaki | 23 Dec 2016 | Recipes
by Olive Branch Lovely christmassy cookies based with extra virgin olive oil and topped with honey. These moist cake-like cookies are flavoured with orange and brandy that are bathed in a sweet honey syrup and topped with chopped almonds and sesame seeds – a...
by Maria Koinaki | 22 Dec 2016 | post
At Christmas time in Greece, there is a wonderful tradition of decorating boats with lights and singing Christmas Carol’s in front of it. This tradition has declined over time, but you will still see these delightful illuminations in Greece, which are again growing in...
by Maria Koinaki | 22 Dec 2016 | Recipes
by Tonia Buxton Easy ideas worthy of whole fresh fish are sometimes hard to muster up. This is a fantastically easy way to cook the abundance of sea bream we have in our sea ….or any other catch of the day…special enough for dining with friends and simple...
