Pineapple & Cream Cheese Pastry Pockets

Simple, easy, quick and delicious dessert. With puff pastry as a basis, smeared with fresh cream cheese and filled with slices of pineapple compote. Sprinkled with powdered sugar for reddened puff pastry gives us a great tasting combination.
That's it!

work: 10′

time: 40′

very easy:

Pasta Caprese

Pasta Caprese (from Capri) with pennes in place of the pasta in colors and flavors of Italy, stealing their name from the same title Caprese Salad due to their ingredients.
Pasta, fresh ruddy tomato, mozzarella and basil, flavors, fragrances but colors too in a unique combination, in a rich combination of ingredients and of course absolutely delicious, perfect for pasta lovers!
Try them!

work: 30′

time: 1h:00′

easy:

Strawberry Tart with White Chocolate

Bright red, aromatic strawberries on melted white chocolate and sour cream. The addition of ginger scents the chocolate and gives peppery tones. Ingredients inextricably linked, in taste but in appearance too.
An easy tart to enjoy, with simple procedures, a beautiful and delicious dessert.
Yours!

work: 20′

time: 30′

easy:

Greek Greens Pie - Hortopita

Favorite pie, traditional pie, lenten pie, with delicious aromatic herbs of the Spring. Everyone likes it and gets eaten with an appetite.
The greens are in abundance in the wild to gather ourselves, or at the grocery store or farmer's market. Look for them.
The diversity and composition of the individual components may vary, but that it is always delicious. It can be made with ready phyllo for more convenience. Wrapped in a circle and forms a large snail. Baked in the oven to become crisp and browned.
Try it!

work: 2h:30′

time: 3h:30′

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Poppy Seed Fruit Cake

Loaf Cake is delicious, festive, and crunchy with poppy seeds and many dried fruits, soaked with the juice and zest of fresh orange. The oil gives a special texture, moisture and flavor and its unique taste and sweetness of dried fruit make it irresistible.
Certainly is one of the cakes that we make again and again.
Yours!

work: 20′

time: 1h:00′

easy:

Snails with Swiss Chard

Cretan snails with chard, aromatic herbs, such as fennel, Mediterranean hartwort, chervils (French parsley) and fresh tomatoes in a delicious casserole dish. Sure for traditional cuisine such a dish is worth testing by lovers of snails.
A particular food consumed since ancient times.
Try it!

work: 2h:00′

time: 2h:30′

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Apple Scones

Fluffy, small, triangular buns? Buttery, healthy cookies? Or just a sweet for all times and circumstances when the desire for something small, sweet & delicious is overwhelming. Whatever you call them, they have their own irresistible presence in the taste and ease of preparation and consumption.
A mixture of simple ingredients, such as butter, an apple, a few crushed almonds & cranberries are the needed ingredients.
Yours!

work: 10′

time: 30′

very easy:

Crab & Avocado Salad

Crab meat -from a can, missing fresh- with avocados, slightly sour apple, mayonnaise, pink sweet spicy pepper are the critical ingredients for this salad.
The delicate taste of real crabmeat in a fresh salad. It tastes great. Delights the palate & leaves us with a pleasant dining experience.
Try it accompanied by iced white wine.
Yours!

work: 15′

time: 15′

very easy:

The recipe

Crab & Avocado Salad

can be found in the book entitled «Μεζέδες».

Galatopita: Greek Milk Pie

Simple Greek Milk Pie, delicious, nourishing, with fluffy cream, velvety taste and texture. Made all over Greece, as the raw Ingredients for this is milk and eggs, and these they found abundant the populations of the rural countryside.
Milk, therefore, semolina, cornflour, eggs and sugar, essential little cinnamon to flavor, smell our kitchen and seduce us.
Yours!

work: 45′

time: 1h:30′

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