Broad Βeans & Blites Salad

We are going through a limp week, between an undecided spring and a summer that does not seem to have made a decision to settle. So adjusting our mood to the «big question of life»!?!: what do we eat today, we cook broad beans. A legume rather despised now and some may not even know of the existence of.
Broad Beans are eaten fresh with artichokes, peas, etc. But dry, boiled as a salad or liquor, here our case. Onions, fresh tomato, bay leaves and oregano make this dish scream out of enthusiasm. They are accompanied and eaten with a salad blitum, feta, olives and barley rusk.
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work: 1h:00′

time: 12h:00′

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Fresh Cherry Cake

A traditional English cake that all we have to do is prepare a quick cake mix, stirring it gently, sinking cherries, with its pretty polka dot design and empty the mixture in an oven pan. It could not be simpler, no mixer, no blows, no long process, and fewer utensils for the sink.
It looks a lot like the french clafoutis, only the English in the classic form of cake use candied cherries. We preferred fresh cherries, which have already made their appearance on the market. I kept some for this and only the recipe because we love to eat them fresh.
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work: 20′

time: 1h:00′

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Picking & Drying of Fresh Oregano-DIY

Oregano.
Ladies & Gentlemen, the Greater Oregano!
Native, perennial aromatic plant, medicinal, industrial, excellent flavor, and great bee-keeping plant, known since antiquity. Who knows if it is fresh and blooming, how many have collected and dried it, how many we use it, or how much it is unknown?
Rhetorical inquiries about the oregano in order to make an effort to approach the matter and see how we can harvest, drain or even cultivate -why not- our own oregano, not least the Greek village tomato salad with feta cheese and Oregano is our gourmet ambassador around the world!
And here I am going to tell you a secret… if you are near mountains, hills, and slopes go out and meet her. If you are urban, you can not have a balcony, a sunny window will be there, then cultivate your oregano and then everything else that smells like a oregano will never be yours anymore!
Its therapeutic properties, look for them and you will find, here today we learn to gather, dry it, scrub it to show its aromas and to put it in jars to taste our food and our mood!
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work: 1h:00′

time: 1 εβδομάδα

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Strawberry Spoon Sweet with Sangria

Strawberries are a very delicious fruit and, of course, as it has often been said here, it is not needed to cook for a long time, it do not benefit in any way and ends up having a rather useless dish. The long-term preparations make it lose some good nutrition and have a lot of time sprinkled with a lot of sugar, it's dehydrated because sugar acts as a catalyst for its dehydration and ends the strawberry dry without juice and taste.
Today we recommend short procedures with a reduced amount of sugar for a 10-minute Spoon Strawberry Sweet. Limit time for this sweet, which is flavored with cloves, honey and sweet Sangria wine.
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work: 5′

time: 10′

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Yellow Split Pea with Caper

Fava beans are a legume and not so common in our daily meals. However, despite the strict austerity of its presence in our Kitchen Stories, it is considered to be one of the most delicious dishes of legumes that we honor most often.
Gentle, delicate flavor and velvety texture in cream form is eaten as an accompaniment to ouzo-wine but also as a main dish with olives, feta cheese, toasted slices of home bread and a glass of red wine.
Throughout Greece, we know as the famous products of the Greek motherland the delicious Prespes beans, Sifnos chickpeas, Amorgo fava beans, Skyros and the most famous of all of Santorini, where it is grown for hundreds of years. All legumes are an enormous nutritional value for a Mediterranean / Greek diet with many health benefits.
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work: 30′

time: 50′

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Mini Pavlovas

It is said that achieving white, well-cooked, fluffy, airy, and at the same time chewy Meringues that melt in the mouth is very difficult. Difficult can be but not impossible.
Today we recommend our version and show you the way step by step with which you will achieve a satisfactory result. Make your own Meringues, which you will enjoy plain but as an addition to many sweets on top of that of Pavlova!
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work: 30′

time: 2h:00′

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Cheese Stuffed Zucchini Flowers

Zucchini flowers filled with a mixture of feta cheese, aromatic herbs and fennel seeds. Bleached in a fluffy beer batter and fried lightly.
Surely we do not all have the opportunity to grow horticultural flowers, but flowers of zucchini, these wonderful edible flowers are easy to find in many of the neighborhood markets at this time, but all summer there are fresh zucchini.
It is worth trying to make this dish and taste a great and rare delicacy. It takes little care to handle the zucchini flowers because it is delicate and sensitive to touch.
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work: 45′

time: 1h:00′

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Strawberry Ginger Smoothie

The season of strawberry is in full swing and I am excited. Seasonal fruits are the key to healthy eating and delicious smoothies because they are naturally sweet, flavored and full of flavor.
Strawberry Smoothie is simple, dietary, delicious, flavored with fresh ginger, healthy and Low Carb/Low Carbohydrates. Fresh rejuvenating beverage with vitamins, trace elements, fiber, calcium and antioxidants for a strong detoxification of our body.
Make this smoothie for a refreshing treatment, body power and energy after a tiring and warm day. It's easy to make with fresh fruit that we have at home.
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work: 10′

time: 10′

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Vine Leaves Maintenance 2-DIY

In an earlier post we saw a dry way of Vine Leaves Maintenance. Today Kitchen Stories suggests another way to boil the leaves and then freeze them.
The season of fresh leaves is in May and June, depending on which area we are talking about. Find and cut your own fresh spring vine leaves, the first ones that Greek vineyards make or buy ready-made cuts from your neighborhood and prepare them to get into your cupboards so you can use them at any time. And do not forget the best leaves are gathered when they are still tender only by the climates of the Sultanina variety or Debina variety.
The proposed method is simple and very easy. So packaged will be kept perfectly in your freezer.
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work: 45′

time: 45′

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