by elenisaltas | Oct 30, 2020 | desserts, Eleni's Recipes, recipes, vegetarian
Pumpkin Paximadia Greek biscotti By: Eleni Saltas Paximadia, a Greek twice baked cookie, gets a fall twist with loads of pumpkin flavor. Depending on the size of your cuts, the recipe makes 40 or so cookies, enough to treat to friends and family—or just keep all for...
by elenisaltas | Oct 28, 2020 | desserts, Eleni's Recipes, recipes, vegetarian
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies By: Eleni Saltas Living in Utah I’m lucky to experience each of the four distinct seasons. I like something about each season, and even though Utah’s weather can be temperamental with snow or hail that destroys fall foliage at any given...
by elenisaltas | Oct 22, 2020 | desserts, Eleni's Recipes, Greek recipes, recipes, vegetarian
Greek Coffee Coffee Cake with sour cream By: Eleni Saltas While sifting through my late Aunt Mary’s recipe book, I landed on a sour cream coffee cake recipe in her dessert section. The word coffee stood out to me and I knew right away I had to make it. Just as I was...
by elenisaltas | Sep 3, 2020 | desserts, Eleni's Recipes, recipes, vegetarian
Banana Bread with sour cream By: Eleni Saltas At the beginning of COVID stay-at-home mandates, Google trends saw a significant spike in searches for banana bread. Articles like “How (and why) banana bread became the unofficial baked good of a pandemic” and “banana...
by elenisaltas | Aug 5, 2020 | desserts, Eleni's Recipes, recipes
Caramelized Plums with greek yogurt By: Eleni Saltas When life gives you plums, what do you make of it? Plum-ade? That doesn’t roll off the tongue quite well, so let’s leave the phrase to the lemons, and make something new for the plums. In an effort to cook more with...
by elenisaltas | Apr 16, 2020 | desserts, Eleni's Recipes, Greek recipes, recipes, vegetarian
Koulourakia with cadbury eggs By: Eleni Saltas A few years ago as I was doing my pre Greek Easter grocery shopping, I walked down the candy aisle and noticed how much Easter candy had gone on sale. This isn’t anything new, as Western and Orthodox Easter can fall...