Tag: Raisins

Sweet & Spicy Vegetables

Sweet & Spicy Vegetables

Some added nuts & raisins/craisins crushed into a coarse powder, transforms vegetables from boring to delightful. An uncomplicated & adaptable recipe, this allows you to use any vegetable in any combination you want. Do not groan hearing vegetables… for this is a real lovely way 

Rich Rum Fruit Cake… For a Very Merry Christmas

Rich Rum Fruit Cake… For a Very Merry Christmas

  Included in the “25 Gourmet Fruitcake Recipes – The very Best Fruitcakes for the Holidays” by the Examiner! I had been in search of a perfect Rich Fruit cake for many months now. Just the way we used to have back home, during Christmas 

Christopsomo- All In The Spirit of Christmas

Christopsomo- All In The Spirit of Christmas

Christopsomo (Christ’s Bread) is  the traditional Greek Anise flavored Christmas Bread.  Baking a Christopsomo is considered a religious task in an Orthodox Greek household. The baker begins by crossing himself & asking for blessings for the household. The bread is baked on the Christmas eve and 

Spiced Cranberry Raisin Bundt Cake

Spiced Cranberry Raisin Bundt Cake

I just finished putting up my Christmas Tree & the lights. This time the kids are big enough to help me with decorating the tree. It was a lot of fun, and a lot of work, but we are finally done. The only thing we 

Spiced Rum Sweet Bread

Spiced Rum Sweet Bread

  Every evening as I make my cup of coffee, I have this craving for something sweet with it. A biscotti, a slice of cake… & often times I think of the white fruit cake with the colorful candied fruits in it that we would get