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Melomakarona / Finikia (Honey-Dipped Cookies)

Published: Dec 23, 2015 · Last updated: Dec 22, 2018 by Marissa

Melomakarona / Finikia (Honey-Dipped Cookies)

Oh, hi! It’s been a little while. I took a mini break from blogging. Because holidays. This time of year always gets a little hectic with Christmas shopping, holiday parties, etc. You know what I’m saying.

But I’m back today and sharing one of my favorite Greek cookies: Melomakarona (meh-loh-mah-KAH-roh-nah)! Also known as finikia (fih-KNEE-kya). They’re little biscuit cookies spiced with orange, cinnamon, and cloves, soaked in a honey syrup. Oh, they also have brandy in them. When it comes to Greeks and Christmas, you can absolutely bet these cookies will make an appearance. They scream Christmas cookies.

One cookie with two very different names? What gives? Good question. I was recently shopping at my favorite local store, Sophia’s Greek Pantry, where Sophia was giving out samples of her melomakarona (which were AMAZING, like everything she makes) and a customer asked Sophia why some people call them finikia. Her answer, which was my favorite was, “I don’t know. I think Greek-Americans just got lazy.”

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Blueberry Oatmeal Smoothie

Published: Jul 24, 2015 · Last updated: Jan 7, 2018 by Marissa

Blueberry Oatmeal Smoothie

I’m going to be honest with you. I don’t actually love the photos I took for this post. I kinda want to retake them. I’m learning more about photography as I go and I don’t exactly see what’s wrong with the photos until the photo session is way over. But I’m starting to notice composition issues and how I could have fixed them, how to balance the light better, etc. and I know now what I could have done to make these photos look even better! Though there are lots of photos from older posts that look way worse that are on my radar to fix first. I’m a bit nit-picky when it comes to my own work.

Okay, that’s all! Thanks for letting me share that with you. I feel much better now.

Jason and I are really bad about having breakfast during the week. It almost never happens. It’s something we’re trying to work on and one step we’ve taken to get towards that is having smoothies!

We don’t have a good reason as to why we don’t do the breakfast thing. It’s straight up laziness. We pretty much stay in bed until we have to get up most days. And making smoothies only takes a quick couple of minutes and we can just have it on the way to work!

I’ve been making green smoothies, strawberry banana smoothies, my favorite: chocolate peanut butter banana smoothie, and as of recently, my latest obsession: blueberry oatmeal smoothies!…

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Beverages, Breakfast beverage, blueberry oatmeal smoothie, breakfast, dairy free, gluten free, smoothie

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