Recipe for cooler evenings – AFELIA

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AFELIA – a stew of pork and potatoes This is a popular dish in Cyprus, the ingredients of which are all widely available in the UK. In the 20 or so years I was putting out recipes in my columns this one occurred every five years or so (show me a cookery writer who doesn’t […]

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Steamed Sea Bass with Fresh Ginger and Spring Onions.

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  A nice lunch or light evening meal   Something a little different with a rather oriental flavour. The nicest fish I know cooked this way is sea bass, but any good cut of firm white fish will give you a delightful and not rich, main dish. It helps to have a steamer, but if you […]

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The Editor’s Apricot Tart

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Unlike the English gentleman of the 19th century who always kept an apricot tart on his sideboard every day of the year, I make this about once a month. Actually, I assemble it, because it is a joint venture of my wife and me – she makes the pastry and the crème pâtissière, whilst I […]

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The Great British Banger

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I don’t know of a country that doesn’t have its own kind of sausages. As with mince, sausages are often created because the basic meat ingredient would be tough if grilled or roasted in the piece. So it is minced up, flavoured and put into a casing. I am old enough to remember when “Austerity” […]

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THOSE WERE THE DAYS – or were they?

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This month: time was when we fortified ourselves with delicious and ridiculously inexpensive local sherries — and some step-by-step delights for your May table. The Heyday of Cyprus Sherry Memory often romanticises events of the past. As an instance I remember the production of a vast range of spirits and liqueurs by Cyprus companies with […]

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Tiramisu

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Luigi Afelba, more usually simply called “Gino” heads up the animated battery of chefs who cook your meal in front of you at the ‘La Boca’ Italian restaurant at the Columbia Plaza in St, Andrews Street Limassol. Gino loves nothing better than inventing or cooking a special dish, but masterminds the range of popular anti-pasti, […]

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