haloumi

I can’t believe what is happening with the weather at the moment. The temperatures are rising to summer levels and beyond. It’s been 26C almost the entire week, which is weird if you think that it is only April! Now I am not complaining but I am totally in summer mood and I know this [...]

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I am not sure how the temperatures are in the rest of Europe but here in Holland it has reached rather high numbers. Yesterday was the worst with 37°C  (98°F) and while today is a little less hot; it’s still in it’s thirties… Not even Italy was that hot! And the problem here is that [...]

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Another halloumi salad…

by Simone (junglefrog) on May 3, 2010 · 13 comments

in Food and Drink, Healthy, Recipes, Salads

halloumi salad with rocket and bacon

Remember I had that delicious lentil salad a while ago with halloumi? For those of you that have never heard of Halloumi; it is traditionally a Cypriot cheese and it made from a mixture of goat’s and sheeps milk although apparently some have cow’s milk in there as well. It can be heated far higher [...]

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Puy lentil, cherry tomato and halloumi salad

by Simone (junglefrog) on April 12, 2010 · 29 comments

in Food and Drink, Recipes, Salads

I had been having this piece of halloumi in my fridge for quite a long time. it’s a good thing you can keep it for as long as I did, or I would have had to throw it out. You see, up until today I had never tasted halloumi. Read about it, heard about it, [...]

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