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Gnocchi Alla Sorrentina

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Gnocchi Alla Sorrentina Gluten Free Vegan Recipe

October is a special month for us as our blog turns one year old on the 19th! We are excited about that and will be working on some special posts (and a surprise for our readers) leading up to our blog’s birthday! For today’s post we will be making gnocchi all sorrentina.

Growing up in Greece means you enjoy Italian cuisine using Greek tomatoes, garlic and basil. Vegetables grown in Greece truly have amazing flavor! One of my all time favorite dishes is traditional gnocchi alla sorentina. This post is a recipe for the gluten free vegan version! With our own handmade, melting mozzarella and our salty Parmesan; this food is for those of us who prefer the simple yet fulfilling flavors in life! You can either make your own gnocchi (click here for our recipe) or you can buy some. We found an amazing gluten free gnocchi from Botanica right here in Patra!  Continue reading Gnocchi Alla Sorrentina →

Vegan Greek Sour Cheese

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Vegan Greek Sour Cheese Recipe for Dakos ντάκος

This is an amazing vegan Greek sour cheese recipe straight from the island of Crete! Finding and making these vegan cheese recipes has become Athanasia’s specialty! We found this particular recipe at our friend’s blog Vegan in Athens (click here to view original recipe). With this particular vegan cheese you can make dakos (ντάκος), which is a very traditional Greek food from Crete. Find out how we made these delicious snacks:

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Vegan Gluten Free Magic Shell

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Vegan Gluten Free Magic Shell

This recipe is so easy and amazing at the same time! What can I say, thank you coconut oil. Thanks to it’s incredible ability to harden at cold temperatures you can make Vegan Gluten Free Magic Shell instantly! It only takes chocolate chips, some vegan milk and the miraculous coconut oil 🙂

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Greek Salad with Vegan Feta Cheese

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Greek Salad with vegan Feta cheese

All last summer with Jake we were eating Greek salad, (we call it horiatiki salad here!). Now that it is summer again, well, at least the calendar says so but it hasn’t stopped raining the past two weeks (yay!), we are eating Greek salad every day. Thanks to our friends over at Viva Las Vegans, we now have a great vegan Feta cheese recipe! Which I know doesn’t mean a whole lot to Jake, but to a Greek, it is the most important thing to have a Greek salad with vegan Feta cheese!

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Potato Salad

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Potato Salad

The lightest, tastiest, easiest potato salad with vegan mayo I have ever had 🙂 Only 4 basic ingredients! How cool is that? A cool dish for those warm days that are coming up. Top it with red or green onions, pickles, raw peppers or capers. Even multi-eyed monsters love it, as you can see in the photo below:

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Lentil Sloppy Joes

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Lentil Sloppy Joes

Today is Good Friday for the Orthodox Christian Easter Holiday, a beautiful spring day, the church bells ringing. Part of the Orthodox Easter is fasting from meat, cheese, eggs and oil. It is kind of like having a country full of vegans for one day here in Greece! We thought of making a lentil version of our Vegan Sloppy Joes (click here), (meaning I wanted to make lentils that Jake would actually enjoy), without olive oil for our friends who fast today! This is especially great for kids who want to follow tradition for their mother’s sake! So we made Sloppy Joes with lentils without olive oil, a quick and easy recipe that leads to a very enjoyable and nutritious dinner. Continue reading Lentil Sloppy Joes →

Artichokes a la Polita

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Artichokes a la Polita

Artichokes bloom in the Spring, so in Greece the time to eat them is now! The simplest recipe, no sea salt, no spices, only the fresh vegetables to flavor each other. Artichokes a la Polita is a traditional Greek recipe from Constantinoupolis, or Istanbul as it is called now. The food is amazing there, where east meets west.  Continue reading Artichokes a la Polita →

Stove-top Mushrooms

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Stove-top Mushrooms

My mom always has stove-top mushrooms ready when we visit, they are a must on the menu. Not to mention she makes them perfectly every time! She says for stove-top mushrooms to be good, you need to saute them until right before they start loosing their juice, otherwise they get soggy. It took me some time to actually figure it out, but when I did, I was the winner of that day’s food contest :). Yes, there is a contest going on (Editor’s note: Athanasia is very competitive). What are you gonna do? We are a Leo and an Aries cooking together, they will try and kick each other’s butt! Unfortunately Jake is such a talented cook so he usually makes the most mind blowing food, but I have some tricks up my sleeves too 🙂 One of them is stove-top mushrooms! Continue reading Stove-top Mushrooms →

Vegan Gluten Free Stir Fry

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Vegan Gluten Free Stir Fry

We wanted to make a vegan gluten free stir fry but we had no idea it would be this amazing! What made it truly savory was Jake’s stir fry sauce which highlighted all the flavors and gave it an exotic touch 🙂

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Fried Eggplants with Greek Garlic Sauce

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Fried Eggplants with Greek garlic sauce vegan and gluten free

On the 25th of March, here in Greece, we always eat skordalia! This is an extra garlicky condiment only for those who love garlic! They also serve it with fried fish, but I replaced it using eggplant pieces. These fried eggplants with Greek garlic sauce were delicious and brought back memories! 🙂 You can adjust the garlic quantity but be aware, your breath will smell! Continue reading Fried Eggplants with Greek Garlic Sauce →