Tag: labneh

Dakos – Cretan Bread Salad with Tomatoes, Olives & Feta

.Reading time 7 minutes.

Many countries have a form of bread salad. The Italians have panzanella; in Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries you will find fattoush; while many salads, like Caesar Salad, contain croutons – fried bread cubes. I was introduced to Dakos by Liquid Gold Cave when I did an olive oil tasting course last year; it was […]

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Greek Style Chicken with Lemon & Olives

.Reading time 8 minutes.

Having a birthday over Easter, and particularly on Easter Sunday, has good points and bad points. The bad part was that lots of my favourite places were closed; the good part was that I had my family around for the whole weekend and birthday celebrations started on Saturday evening with a meal at the lovely A […]

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Labneh – Three Ways

.Reading time 10 minutes.

I wrote about all the lovely Greek yogurt Total sent me the other day after a Twitter exchange with them (click here). I decided one great thing to do with some of it was to make some labneh. Labneh is an East Mediterranean/Middle Eastern soft cheese made from strained yogurt. You could make it with […]

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