Tag Archives: lemon

No-Bake Cheesecake with Fruit Sauce

Imagine a warm summer day.

You just finished lunch and you are desperately craving a fresh and delicious dessert.

You open your fridge and you find this inside:

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Are you happy or what??

Well, you should be, because this no-bake cheesecake is creamy, fresh, sweet, but with a nice lemon kick and super-delicious!

And it is not difficult to make!

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Stuffed Cabbage Leaves {in Egg-Lemon Sauce}

Or lahanodolmades as we call them in Greek!

This is a delicious dish, albeit slightly time-consuming. Certainly not your after-work dinner. But definitely your weekend lunch!

The cabbage leaves are stuffed with ground meat and rice and served in avgolemono, an egg-lemon sauce used in several different dishes in Greece, including many soups.

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Shrimps in Mustard-Lemon Sauce

“Hello Twitter, this is Villy. It only took me a century to get to know you. But here I am”.

So, yeah, I now have a Twitter account. If you are interested to connect the username is @VillyMP 🙂

Let’s move to the food!

This post is about shrimps. Again. We like them. And this is a recipe I learned from my mother-in-law (another awesome cook of the family!)!

Did I say they are delicious? No?

Well, they are!

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Baked salmon with lemon and parsley

Let’s face it. Salmon is healthy AND delicious. Classic win win situation.

So. There.

This dish is easy, fast (even for after-work dinner), and full of flavor! Win, win, and win again 🙂

And you know something? It’s reaaaaaally hard to mess this up.

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Roast Chicken with Potatoes

This was the first thing I ever cooked all by myself! After watching and helping my mother for many years of course.. And it’s one of my biggest favorites! And the reasons are obvious:

Crispy-skinned tender chicken: check. Soft, “little caramel” potatoes: check. Delicious combination of herbs: check. Awesome olive oil with lemon and garlic: check! And I say “little caramels” because this is the compliment we use in my family when the potatoes are so perfectly cooked that feel caramelized. It’s like a cooking skill scale. 🙂

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