Tag: tomatoes
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Feta stuffed roast chicken with orzo
A roast chicken is a welcome family favourite at any time of the year but this Greek-inspired recipe is especially good in the summer. This is based on a recipe by Diana Henry but I’ve changed the cooking method and made a few other tweaks that I think improves it. First, slow roast the chicken…
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Tavas – Cypriot braised beef with potatoes, tomato and oregano
Tavas is a popular dish from the island of Cyprus that is incredibly simple to make and full of robust Mediterranean flavours. The Cypriots often use cinnamon in savoury dishes; they sprinkle it on chicken skin and over potatoes before roasting them and it gives a wonderful layer of flavour to the tomato sauce that…
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Mussel pilaf with dill
Rick Stein has made some wonderful food and travel programmes, we’ve loved the recent one about Cornwall, the rerun of Secret France and repeats of Long Weekends. We saw this  mussel pilaf being made at a restaurant in the Thessaloniki episode and it made us long for sunnier climes and the days when holidays were…
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